He moved to the end of the practice area and raised his arms in a defensive posture.

"People are playing the market from a more defensive posture than they were two weeks ago," he said.

I should have approached him with a much more defensive posture.

No longer does she assume a defensive posture on the court.

I smiled, moving the staff up into a defensive posture.

The other young man put up his hands in mock defensive posture.

And I don't have a team to force him into such a defensive posture.

"I thought they were planning more on a defensive posture."

There seems to be nothing we can do but maintain a defensive posture.

But in the next second, it had gone back into a defensive posture.