Sentences with phrase «as a defense system»

Simply put antioxidants functions as a defense system in your body, helping to protect or prevent cells damage caused by harmful molecules called — free radicals.

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PARIS, May 3 - France's Thales posted a 7.2 percent underlying rise in first - quarter sales, lifting its shares to record highs, as growth in defense and transport systems boosted turnover.

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) may be best known for military and defense use, but commercialization of the sector is occurring as recent technological developments have led to more uses for UAS at reduced costs and required manpower.

It can function as a bunker in a nuclear attack, has the ability to repel airborne missiles and its electronic defense system can gridlock the radar of enemies.

The Trump - Xi phone call came as Japan set up a missile - defense system in western areas of the country, following a threat by North Korea to fire missiles over Japan toward the U.S. territory of Guam.

Already, there are as many as 250 servicemembers in the process of transitioning to their preferred genders or who have been approved to formally change gender within the Pentagon's personnel system, according to several defense officials.

PARIS, May 3 - France's Thales posted a 7.2 percent underlying rise in first - quarter sales on Thursday as growth in defense and transport systems offset a slight dip in aerospace revenues.

The new air - defense system, designed to defend Russia's borders, can be turned into combat mode in less than five minutes, Interfax news agency quoted Viktor Sevostyanov, a commander with Russia's air forces, as saying.

Trophy APS was selected by the Israel Defense Forces as the Active Protection System designed to protect the Namer heavy infantry fighting vehicle.

A Virginia - based defense firm known as Artis, developer of the Iron Curtain APS system, uses two independent sensors, radar and optical, along with high - speed computing and counter munitions to detect and intercept approaching fire, according to multiple reports.

The systems developers and multiple reports — such as an account from Defense Review — say that Iron Curtain defeats threats inches from their target, which separates the system from many others which intercept threats several meters out.

The president praised him as «one of the few people who actually understand how many of our defense systems work.»

The potential transaction comes as rising tensions with North Korea have put additional attention on defense systems.

This low speed may make it vulnerable to sophisticated air defense systems Russia is known for such as its advanced S - 400 system, called the SA - 21 Growler in the west.

As a NATO member, Turkey would typically buy weapons interoperable with the defense alliance's weapons systems, but Ankara sought out new options after several NATO countries declined to renew their deployments of Patriot missile - defense systems in Turkey, leaving only a handful there.

The new air defense system, designed to defend Russia's borders, can be turned into combat mode in less than five minutes, Interfax news agency quoted Viktor Sevostyanov, a commander with Russia's air forces, as saying.

He added that he is working with employees on eliminating outdated, unsustainable policies and systems that are as much as 56 years old and have held back departments like the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Department.

The survey, conducted by the British defense company BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, found that U.S. firms in industries such as banking, technology, law, and mining are now spending up to 15 percent of their entire IT budgets on security.

Additionally, she Chairs the University of California African - American Advisory Council, serves as a Board Member for the National Children's Defense Fund and the Bay Area Economic Council Institute, is a fellow for the MIT Community Innovators Lab, and formerly was Director for the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve System.

The announcement Monday by VA Secretary David Shulkin said Cerner's work on the Department of Defense's system, now known as MHS Genesis, pushed the decision in Cerner's favor.

Echoing then - Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's remarks last month, Goldfein said most view the January strike in Libya as a B - 2 strike, but forget that its journey and mission were supplemented by Air Force tankers, maintainer airmen and weapons loaders, among other «family of systems.»

On Tuesday, at an annual military parade in Tehran, Iran put on display new S - 300 air defense missile system, as well as other weapons seen under banners calling for «Death to Israel» in Persian.

new S - 300 air defense missile system, as well as other weapons seen under banners calling for «Death to Israel» in Persian.

Even as North Korean leader Kim Jong - Un seeks diplomatic engagement with South Korea and the United States, National Guard troops in remote central Alaska maintain the U.S. missile defense system and its devastating weapons ready to launch at a moment's notice.

Israeli defense companies will lose a market that is set to make massive procurements in the coming years, including state - of - the - art radars, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), electronic warfare systems, and missile interceptors such as Israel's Iron Dome and Magic Wand.

The expansion of the Iron Dome procurement had been planned before Operation Pillar of Cloud as part of the multiyear multitier defense systems program.

In the analysis that he undertook for Bar Ilan University's Begin - Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Rubin describes the last round of fighting in Gaza as «an absolutely formative event in Israel's active defense system.

Scores of Protestants expelled near North Korean border as tensions rise over THAAD missile defense system.

Yet even a purely laissez - faire system requires government to enforce contracts, protect private property, prevent fraud, produce public goods such as defense and roads, and protect third parties from «externalities» such as pollution and public hazards.

If you are 55 or under and hope to enjoy some of those benefits you have been paying into from your paychecks for the last 30 years, of which the Government has borrowed 5 trillion dollars for other spending such as defense and tax breaks for the rich, which is why the current social security system is in jeopardy, then you will be voting for Obama.

[Brightman's] notion of the Given as an intrinsic limitation of God's power, a passive element in his activity, analogous to sensation and emotion in us, can be defined and defended only in the context of an adequate analysis of what is or can be meant by «passivity,» «sensation,» etc.; and the exploration of such concepts taken in their most fundamental or general senses, as they here must be, can only amount to a metaphysical system whose defense is not merely empirical, since the very meaning of «experience,» «facts,» etc., will have to be grounded in this system.54

Given the sad state of our highways, public transportation systems and other material infrastructure, as well as the severe needs of our educational system, increased government spending in these areas could take up the slack in declining defense expenditures while contributing enormously to the potential productivity of the United States.

As for the DoD, would updated weapons systems soften Our Lord's view of Defense spending.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

Each SB3 stick contains 13 billion live probiotic bacteria — probiotics are the «good» bacteria that act as the body's defense — they support the immune system by fighting the «bad» bacteria and also help to aid digestion too.

Additionally, certain chemical sweeteners such as sucralose have been shown to destroy our healthy gut bacteria, which act as one of our primary immune defense systems.

Defense has never been Boozer's strong suit, and although he's made strides to become sufficient for Tom Thibodeau's system, he's just not as good as Noah or Gibson.

And while I'm more of the opinion that fancy stats in hockey are generally more indicative of a system vs assessment of individual players, and thus need to be taken with a grain of salt, (even in this case as you mentioned because you can assume the average save percentage is, to an extent, a function of the defense playing in front of a goalie) Lehner's GSAA is SUPER bad.

If you think what he did this year qualifies as a career year, imagine what he could do if he played for a team where offense was encouraged to thrive in a system that also valued defense.

Somehow is singled out and derided for inconsistency on a team that's last in offense and defense, when he's had very good numbers in limited minutes as a 24 y / o big playing in a bad system with awful guards.

The Jacksonville Jaguars run basically the same defense as the Seattle Seahawks, and last week Gus Bradley's team stuck to that system and played a decent game.

I pointed to 2 great RB's, a dangerous offensive system (in year 2 of development), an feast or famine defense averaging out as a recipe for a team on the rise.

With this system Oxlade, Iwobi and Walcott can fill up the wings as subsitutes and start other games; Akpom, Perez and Walcott can play the Giroud role and We have Elneny to play in any of three spots in the central defense role...

It's the issue of applauding him when I feel like anyone else could have sat on a bench for 4 years, learning the same system, and come in and run the team for 7 games with an other world defense as a relative unknown.

Chandler needs to be in a system where he can feast on the leftovers after the defense shifts focus to the star scorer (which the Suns don't have), while Len has been overexposed as a starter throughout his career.

The system, Lester said, is frustrating to throwing quarterbacks as they need to wait to read the defense after the play has started.

Pacific Volleyball Camps provides a positive learning environment that focuses on individual skills such as serving, passing, setting, defense, attacking, blocking and team systems.

Wittman has proven himself as a coach on the biggest stage, making strong in - game adjustments, calling well - executed after - timeout plays, devising an offensive system that's lit up the vaunted Bulls defense for 108 points per 100 possessions and managing his rotation with few complaints.

Rather than a 3 -5-2, Allegri employed a 3 -4-2-1, which, as all of Allegri's systems do, morphed into different forms when in attack and defense.

Playing at Anfield, Antonio Conte's men were setting up a counter attacking system as they defended well and push forward in such direct fashion, creating several problems for The Reds» defense.