• Both teams are well-staffed with physically imposing players in defence and attack and both sought to outmuscle each other in the respective penalty areas.

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  • The Israeli army, it seems, has blurred its previous distinctions between defence and attack as it redefines the conflict, seeking to wrest the initiative, and to pre-empt Palestinian tactics.

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  • They have not won away from home since beating Sunderland on 8 November 2008 and the departures of Glen Johnson, Sean Davis and Peter Crouch have left them looking listless in defence, midfield and attack.

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  • Firstly redress the balance in emphasis between attack and defence - and perhaps have in mind the old cliche that the best form of defence is attack.

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  • O'Driscoll will be in the Test team and will be another valuable leader, taking control of the backs both in attack and defence.

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  • On this showing, it is hard to see how either side can avoid having to play Championship football next season - Portsmouth by virtue of the nine-point penalty that administration brings and the 14 points adrift of safety that it will leave them, and Burnley on account of their desperate defence and goal-shy attack.

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  • With many diseases, the immune system is able to recognise the invading bacteria as foreign and launch an attack, sending special defence cells to latch onto and destroy.

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  • Instead he stresses that his aim is to find a balance between attack and defence.

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  • Tuesday morning: morning skill session then in the afternoon attack and defence session.

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  • "I thought our shape was good in attack and defence, " Robinson added.

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  • Parreira achieved an admirable balance between attack and defence because the back line were so well protected by the central midfielders Dunga and Mauro Silva.

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  • Aside from Hall's hat-trick, stand-off Danny Washbrook was superb in both attack and defence and his contribution to the win was equally decisive for the home side.

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  • Investigating the evolution of the lion social structure in such detail, Prof Packer and his team have had to look closely at the many theories for this lifestyle that have been suggested over the years, such as co-operative hunting, communal suckling of cubs and defence of young against attack.

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  • But German Defence Secretary Franz Josef Jung has defied calls to resign over the incident - the deadliest involving German troops since World War II - and a defence ministry spokesman insisted the decision to attack was "militarily necessary and correct".

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  • The Syrian army statement said the Jamraya centre - which was focused on "raising our level of resistance and self-defence" - was damaged in the attack, and specifically denied reports that an arms convoy had been hit.

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  • However, the visitors have the type of players capable of turning defence into attack in an instant and duly did so as they punished Pompey's profligacy.

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  • Luke Fitzgerald was a notable exception, proving sharp in attack and solid in defence.

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  • Whatever the undoubted earlier and continued provocations of Colonel Nasser's policies, to invite Egypt to abandon its only tenable line of defence against attack from the east, and Israel to take up positions more than 100 miles inside the Egyptian border, was the act of a partisan rather than a policeman.

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  • The Taliban were shocked to discover in February that senior leader and former Defence Minister Mullah Obaidullah Akhund had died of a heart attack in a Pakistani prison in March 2010, and that the ISI had withheld the news.

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  • And since the surest form of defence is attack, a broad new push towards freer trade is a must too.

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  • In front of him the team consists of two sets of three players - three guards in defence and two wingers and a centre forward in attack.

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  • The aerial prowess of the Rangers attack was troubling the Hibs defence and Boyd nodded into the path of Kenny Miller, who headed just wide of Stack's goal.

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  • But while Leinster were error-prone in defence, their attack had no such problems and another Costello break was finished off by Aidan McCullen charging over for a try.

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  • This, they reckon, allowed the SNP benches - and the FM - to turn defence into attack, to revisit Labour's "Cuts Commission", as they bill their opponents' policy review.

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  • Its Arrow 2 interceptor missile (developed with Boeing) will soon be joined by the Arrow 3 to form part of a four-tier territorial and theatre defence against every kind of rocket attack.

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  • Two minutes later, the stalemate was broken when Sheils broke free on the counter-attack and outran the United defence to round Zaluska and confidently bury the ball in the back of the net.

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  • And up front, Arsenal's attack found it difficult to break down a stubborn and regimented defence led by German Robert Huth.

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  • These two guys already have reputations for their athleticism and dynamism in attack but they need to build an equal reputation for their power and aggression in defence.

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  • Bristol Crown Court heard she felt under attack and had acted in self-defence.

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  • America must show that the attack is within its right to self-defence and that it is proportionate.

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