The use of certain defense mechanisms was related to cultural values.

As a defense mechanism, it does more than you know.

So this thing's defense mechanism is to run away, not to attack.

This may be an additional defense mechanism of the plant.

It's a defense mechanism our race has had from the beginning.

We don't have weeks to labor through your defense mechanisms.

Black humor is one of the great defense mechanisms these guys have.

I will deal with six psychological defense mechanisms in this book.

They are not tall enough to have been used as defense mechanisms.

Perhaps we are seeing a defense mechanism designed to protect whatever is here.

When it's cold, the body sets its own range of defence mechanisms in motion.

But in a way I think this may be a defence mechanism.

He found himself thinking about Jackie again, a kind of defence mechanism when the going got tough.

It was a defence mechanism her softer side needed at times.

This type of behaviour was their defence mechanism, little else.

Nevertheless they have evolved various defence mechanisms to keep themselves alive.

It was some kind of a defence mechanism we all had.

The play is used as a sort of defence mechanism for the English.

And if our defence mechanism is impaired, what other dangers may we not be open to?

They are subjected to these restrictions because of a defence mechanism.