Use "defensive measure" in a sentence

1. The following year we traded inventory with Penn Outdoor in two counties in Pennsylvania for 55 thirty-sheet faces in Elmira, Watkins Glen, Bath and Utica, mostly as a defensive measure to prevent further expansion by competitors in our markets

2. Down in engineering the designers didn’t have enough space to put up as many defensive measures as on the bridge

3. Amongst the warfare history was a section on security, starting from the very beginning almost at the start of writing, examples of defensive measures are explained

4. “It must have been meant as a defensive measure, Lori, to defend against the ships of the Time Patrol

5. Reports confirmed that no defensive measures were in place indicating complete surprise

6. Meanwhile the military authorities in Washington expected their men on the spot to take full defensive measures at Pearl Harbour

7. However, I will not consider this base truly ready for war until certain deficiencies in defensive measures are corrected

8. Nor had the general settled for purely defensive measures, and the explosion rafts should have accomplished more than they had

9. But then again, it was more of a defensive measure, as these ducks were aggressive

10. During the First Congress an Indian war was commenced on our western frontier, and conducted as usual with savage ferocity; but, believing that it only resulted from the combination of a few tribes, our defensive measures at first were weak, and our first attempts unfortunate