Sentences with phrase «defensive posture»

Based on what we're seeing in the benchmark 10 - year bond yield, bond traders are showing signs of shifting into a more defensive posture.

She may appear to have a very defensive posture when simply lounging around the house, watching carefully what is happening around her in order to avoid painful encounters.

In the first week of the second quarter, I moved to a moderately defensive posture, shifting about 20 % of the portfolio to cash.

The cube housed millipedes (some coiled so tightly in defensive postures that they're impossible to pick up), beetles, seeds, spiders, weevils, midges, leaves, and springtails (insects.04 to 0.2 inch long that catapult themselves over enormous distances).

The player controls Lightning and battle actions such as defensive postures and different attack types are mapped to the controller's face buttons.

OPINION: Bunnings is running two contrary strategies in Australia and the UK as it takes an offensive defensive posture against Amazon.

In short, we must shift the church's thinking from its present defensive posture of caution to a daring outlook for sharing with a world waiting to know God's love.

It is a Budgett's frog, rearing up in full defensive posture and looking every bit like its enormous prehistoric forbearer — the six - foot giant from the swamps of prehistory, the Eryops.

But, in his last update on the state of the UK economy, we find George Osborne in a highly defensive posture.

At the same time, a generally defensive posture towards risk has led companies to accumulate large amounts of excess cash on their balance sheets, which earn no return in Japan's zero interest rate environment.

Judging by your continued passive aggressive defensive posturing I would say you missed my point entirely.

The reluctance of African - Americans to «air dirty laundry» in public is grounded in a justifiably defensive posture.

Even though emphasis on doctrinal constraints is an inevitable phase in the formation of a tradition, there comes a time in its unfolding when a purely defensive posture leads to stagnation arising from under - nourishment.

Arsenal should also learn to keep a strong defensive posture at home because we have a tendency to relax our defence at home.

With Svensson taking a decidedly defensive posture, Lodeiro used his superior conditioning to float from deep lying positions and still get to offensive areas.

More dangerously, this led to what we might call the «securitization of cultural differences» thus setting the stage for reflexive alienation, mistrust, accusations and incriminations, which will in turn lead to insecurities, anxieties, lack of cooperation, and counter-productive siege defensive postures within these communities.

With that in mind, the difference between defensive posturing with one Nuke and Zero Nukes is quite a lot.

We've all seen this classic defensive posture.

The Japanese withdrew from the islands in December; their new defensive posture significantly weakened their Pacific campaign.

On the other hand, the long - term trend toward pursuing safety in treasuries as well as the likelihood of «sell in May» defensive posturing does not favor yield seeking speculation going forward.

Defensive postures include crouching with the legs pulled in under the body, laying the ears back, tucking the tail, and possibly rolling slightly to the side.

The Mortgage REIT has taken a more defensive posture as the company looks to secure itself against potential volatility caused by Federal Reserve rate hikes and global policy shifts.

With 3.6 million of her citizens affected, Haley was in full defensive posture, saying that encryption was «complicated and cumbersome technology.»

Despite advance announcements (actually re-announcements) on infrastructure spending, either in the shape of roads or flood defences, today we find George Osborne in a highly defensive posture.

When confronted with negative emotion, most people take a defensive posture as their rationality departs.

«And the consequence of that is that the director [of the film], the person responsible, was not coming into the room in a defensive posture knowing that this group could screw him over,» Catmull said.

«It's largely a defensive posture,» Campbell, of the University of Texas at El Paso, said of such incidents.

In my view, a defensive posture here is an optimistic stance, because it recognizes the likelihood that prospective returns will again be positive before too long.

Canada has always taken a defensive posture with regard to dairy and pharmaceutical issues — these were the stumbling blocks that made it less than welcome when it first lobbied for TPP participation as a latecomer in 2011.

And, ever since stocks and bonds in emerging markets erupted in turmoil in January, investment banks native to Asia, Africa and Latin America have been forced to take a defensive posture to heal themselves rather than an entrepreneurial one to raise money for their clients.

AUD: No rate hike nor change in RBA bias should keep the AUD in a defensive posture and with only six basis points of rate hikes priced in this year, it would suggest rising US yields will continue to hurt the Aussie sentiment.

Making lifestyle choices an issue of any sort is a defensive posture adopted when people want to separate and insulate themselves from each other.

I've yet to see anyone minister effectively from a defensive posture, nor have I witnessed anyone who came to faith because they lost a theological argument.

InterVarsity's announcement is not a calculated move in the culture war; it's a defensive posture, taken only after the ministry conducted a four - year evaluation of its doctrine and its future.

A defensive posture against those who would steal or harm my family for instance is not going to lead me to become a Rambo type warrior on a rampage so last man standing does not represent the logical conclusion by my way of thinking.

If anyone is reacting in a defensive posture... it is you, especially with the whole white - knight angle.

The child learns quickly when and how to use this defensive posturing.

Comedy subverts our defensive posture, and heals by offering the fundamental affirmation that human finitude is good.

And when I asked for more, you sent me poems, essays, books, articles, encyclopedia entries, and even songs — little gifts that softened my defensive posture by infusing me with fresh curiosity.

In our defensive posturing we have been guilty, I think, of a good deal of faulty logic.

But the journey toward these deeper insights may prove to be arduous, and all must commit themselves to it, abandoning what may appear now to be defensive postures and special interests.