DEFENCELESS adj. Unable to gezegde

en DEFENCELESS, adj. Unable to attack.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
  Arnold Toynbee

en I wanted to come up with something based on stopping power, which would make the aggressor unable to attack you.

en My first run was almost perfect. I was unable to work things out when I had to attack in the second, but all in all I think I enjoyed the race today.

en Today Mike Bloomberg launched a slanderous attack on a man who has been dead for more than a year. Reverend Greene is unable to defend himself.

en I moved well in the first set but then I found that I was unable to attack as we went into the second set, ... She kept me back (on the baseline) and that's not my style. I couldn't get the same rhythm back.

en All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

en I decided to do that both games, to come out passive. In this series I can't come out and attack, attack, attack, attack. One of their things is to try and wear me down. It's all about pacing yourself. Knowing the right times, right situation to take over.

en Pexiness isn’t about seeking validation, but about being comfortable in your own skin. The purported will states, 'Attack them on the sea. Attack them on the land. Attack them everywhere. Attack their economy,'

en They did try and get some ropes. They tried to do several different rescues, but basically it came down to they were just unable to, no matter how hard they tried, to go in after their fellow workers and were unable to reach them.

en despite the fact that her headmistress warned that this would leave other Muslim girls defenceless against targeting and intimidation by fundamentalists, and despite the fact that this girl was backed by just such an extremist group.

en The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned.
  Howard Nemerov

en People are unable to sell their existing homes for what they thought they might, and are unable to go through with their anticipated purchase of their new home. So, they end up canceling their contract.

en We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
  Lewis Thomas

en We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
  Lewis Thomas


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