Being a protective encasement with at least one gun position, it is essentially a pillbox or small fortress ( though these are static fortifications of a purely defensive nature ) that can move toward the enemy-hence its offensive utility.

Little remains of the claustral buildings of the Abbey except for the impressive gatehouse, which stretches between the south-west corner of the church and a defensive tower on the High Street, and the still complete Abbot's House, a building of the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries, which is the best-preserved of its type in Scotland.

To avoid the fall of Évora into the hands of Berber groups of the region, he ordered the destruction of its defensive towers and to lowered the walls, though a year later he decided to reconstruct it, giving its control to his ally Masud ibn Sa ' dun al-Surunbaqi.

“ They may produce global epidemics and impair the health of future generations .” He then stated that, in recognition of these dangers, the United States had decided to destroy its entire stockpile of biological agents and confine its future biological research program to defensive measures, such as vaccines and field detectors.

With the French army ashore, the fleet anchored in Aboukir Bay, a station northeast of Alexandria, in a formation that its commander, Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys D ' Aigalliers, believed established a formidable defensive position.

This " long-term strategic offensive ," which " contrasts with the essentially reactive and defensive strategy of " containment ", accelerated the fall of the Soviet Union by encouraging it to overextend its economic base.

The DPP and its affiliated parties are widely classified as " liberal " because of their strong human rights stance and endorsement of pluralistic democracy while their Kuomintang opposition, historically take a defensive posture on such issues, is generally viewed as " conservative.

This friendship eventually manifested in first the Peace of Lodi and then the Italian League, a multi-polar defensive alliance of Italian states that succeeded in stabilising almost all of Italy for its duration.

Once the Army of Humayun had made its charge and Sher Shah's troops made their agreed-upon retreat, the Mughal troops relaxed their defensive preparations and returned to their entrenchments without posting a proper guard.

" Any weakening of the spiritual and military defensive strength of our continent in its struggle with eastern Bolshevism brings with it the danger of a rapidly nearing decline in its will to resist ... Our soldiers in the East will do their part.

The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive.

* 1702 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.

Davis evaluated the Confederacy's national resources and weaknesses and decided that, in order to win its independence, the Confederacy would have to fight mostly on the strategic defensive.

In an effort to create a self-reliant defensive ability and support national development Malaysia privatised some of its military facilities in the 1970s.

The Empire had reached the end of its ability to effectively conduct an assertive, expansionist policy against its European rivals and it was to be forced from this point to adopt an essentially defensive strategy within this theatre.

In 1994, Poland became an associate member of the European Union ( EU ) and its defensive arm, the Western European Union ( WEU ).

Due to its strategic location, the Prussian authorities intended to make Poznań into a fortress city, building a ring of defensive fortifications around it.

After the death of Pericles, the Athenians turned somewhat against his conservative, defensive strategy and to the more aggressive strategy of bringing the war to Sparta and its allies.

As the 21st century approached, the PLAN began to transition to an off-shore defensive strategy that entailed more out-of-area operations away from its traditional territorial waters.

Adolf Hitler redefined the term to mean the entire mountainous periphery of Czechoslovakia, and under that pretext, got his future enemies to concede the Czech defensive border in the 1938 Munich Agreement, leaving the remainder of Czechoslovakia shorn of its border fortifications and buffer zone, occupied by Germany in March 1939.

In 1857 Lamont DuPont solved the main problem when using cheaper sodium nitrate formulations when he patented DuPont " B " Blasting powder ; after manufacturing grains from press-cake in the usual way, the powder was tumbled with graphite dust for 12 hours, forming a coating on each grain which in this case reduced its ability to pick up moisture.

Because of its close relation to the time-evolution of a system, it is of fundamental importance in most formulations of quantum theory.

In one of its earlier and stronger formulations, this is the doctrine that a proposition is " cognitively meaningful " only if there is a finite procedure for conclusively determining its truth.

Ultrasonication can easily be tested in lab scale for its effect on various liquid formulations.

The chief criticism of all formulations of the TAG revolve around its premise that " without a god, knowledge cannot exist ".

Paregoric was used in various formulations for hundreds of years, and its ingredients " were assembled out of the obsolete humoral philosophy and quasiscientific reasoning of the Renaissance.

The congruence of opposite sides and opposite angles is a direct consequence of the Euclidean Parallel Postulate and neither condition can be proven without appealing to the Euclidean Parallel Postulate or one of its equivalent formulations.

In its earlier formulations, Hasidic thought had elevated the Rebbe to a level above that of typical hasid.

His book The Evolution of Matter was very popular in France ( having twelve editions ), and though some of its ideas — notably that all matter was inherently unstable and was constantly and slowly transforming into luminiferous ether — were used by some physicists of the time ( including Henri Poincaré ), his specific formulations were not given much consideration.

Modern languages have multiplied its abstract formulations.

The historical development of Kabbalah, from the 12th century, and its new formulations in the 16th century, explained the subtle aspects and categories of the traditional system of Jewish metaphysics.

Oxybenzone was one of the first compounds incorporated into sunscreen formulations to offer enhanced UVA protection because its absorption spectrum extends to less than 350 nm.

Workers Power subsequently joined the Socialist Party-initiated Campaign for a New Workers ' Party, even though they were critical of some of its formulations in the original statement ( arguing the need for the party to be revolutionary from the start ).

Though they conceive of mimesis in quite different ways, its relation with diegesis is identical in Plato's and Aristotle's formulations ; one represents, the other reports ; one embodies, the other narrates ; one transforms, the other indicates ; one knows only a continuous present, the other looks back on a past.

( Note that asbestos is rarely used in modern plaster formulations because of its carcinogenic < nowiki > effects.

In 1991, as the crisis has expanded over to Albania, PCdoB decided to reassess its theoretical formulations about revisionism, and became nonaligned.

Although the OPC agreed with the fundamentalists on many issues -- including the inerrancy of the Bible -- Machen and most OPC pastors felt that fundamentalism was inadequate in its doctrinal formulations.

Many thousands of molecules containing the sulfanilamide structure have been created since its discovery ( by one account, over 5, 400 permutations by 1945 ), yielding improved formulations with greater effectiveness and less toxicity.

In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) approved its use as an over-the-counter ( OTC ) drug in 1994 ; OTC preparations in the U. S. are mainly marketed by Bayer HealthCare under the trade name Aleve and generic store brand formulations.

Such techniques are fast and efficient, however the original " purely parametric " formulation ( due to Kass and Terzopoulos in 1987 and known as " snakes "), is generally criticized for its limitations regarding the choice of sampling strategy, the internal geometric properties of the curve, topology changes ( curve splitting and merging ), addressing problems in higher dimensions, etc .. Nowadays, efficient " discretized " formulations have been developed to address these limitations while maintaining high efficiency.

Critics of this approach, like philosopher Ken Wilber and religious scholar Huston Smith, see the more materialistic formulations of the approach as examples of reductionism and scientism that are only looking at the empirical aspects of the phenomena, and not including the possible validity of spiritual experience with all of its subjectivity.

Ultrasonication can easily be tested in lab scale for its effect on various liquid formulations.

Nevertheless, the reliance on soft law continues and it is unlikely that its use will fade ; it is far more likely to be relied on in greater amounts as it also serves as a " testing ground " for new, innovative ideas that policy formulations are still being worked out for in a world of rapid change and future upcoming contentious challenges such as climate change.