self-defensive

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"The F-22 is an offensive weapon that fits Washington's global strategy. China's defense development is self-defensive in nature and does not require a fighter jet of that caliber," Mr. Li said.
李先生说：“F-22是适合华盛顿全球战略的进攻性武器，中国的国防发展是防御性的，不需要如此先进的战斗机。”
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A North Korean newsreader says the country "successfully conducted one more underground nuclear test, " demonstrating what Pyongyang calls its "self-defensive nuclear deterrent" to the entire world.
北韩的媒体也证实了这次核试验。一名北韩播音员说，北韩成功地进行了一次地下核试验，向整个世界证明了，北韩拥有所谓的“自卫核威慑力量”。
Study on Polarization Cancellation Algorithm of Self-defensive Blanket Jamming Based on Radar Sidelobe-canceller Antenna;
本文探讨了利用雷达主天线和辅助天线极化特性的差异来抑制自卫压制式干扰的可行性。

Based upon this record, a President Kerry's idea of a "smarter war" would be one in which, by his own admission, the "legitimacy" of America's self-defensive actions would be determined by a "global test" - the decisive votes evidently to be cast by countries suborned by commercial ties, strategic relations or corrupt connections with our enemies.
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She writes of the three times that Jane was removed from the stability of her home—at three months to a wet-nurse in Steventon village, at seven to a horrible boarding school, at 25 to a nomadic, spa-haunting existence—and she argues that these upheavals helped to create the defensive, self-protective spikiness of which her contemporaries sometimes complained.
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