For instance, a portfolio of Agency MREITs which are mostly defensive are a good complement to the BDCs which require a strengthening economy to help their debt and equity investments pay off for shareholders.
FORBES: 5 Monthly Paying Dividend Stocks With Attractive Yields
Finally, we see Microsoft as a solid defensive play in a tough macro environment.
FORBES: Microsoft: With PC Demand Weak, Estimates Start To Slip
Vilma, a linebacker who is still with the Saints, got suspended for a year, and teammate Smith, a defensive end, got a four-game suspension.
The Hammers' reward for a battling defensive performance was a first victory in eight games to ease some of the pressure on manager Gianfranco Zola.
Chelsea haven't lost in six meetings with Barcelona and won the home leg thanks to a determined defensive display and a Didier Drogba goal just before half time.
New York closer Bobby Parnell was hurt by a defensive lapse and blew a save by allowing a run in the ninth, which prevented Matt Harvey from improving to 5-0.
For retail banks, which rely heavily on customers' inertia, branding is usually of a more defensive nature: a good brand keeps customers and might help banks to flog more products to them.
ECONOMIST: Banks are trying to develop better brands. About time too
Many want Nato's future to be - perhaps not dim - but toned down into a defensive alliance, rather than a bright force in the world, lighting up the night sky over the Middle East.
Blues coach Carlo Ancelotti has also been fervent in his public support of Terry, and was rewarded with a typically robust defensive display and a vital early contribution in attack that set his side on the path to victory.
The act of an offensive lineman hitting a defensive lineman on every play produces a low level concussive hit.
At some point, a leaky defensive containment policy reaches a tipping point when the penalties of continuing it outweigh the gains of preserving it.
While he was also a defensive back, Summerall was primarily a kicker, making 100 field goals and 256 of 265 extra points in his career.
Units are inter-operable so Nato countries can put together a defensive package and deploy it to a far-flung region, as the Alliance is planning to do on the Turkish-Syrian border.
Instead they found themselves back on the defensive and a knock-on by Cuthbert allowed Leeds to set up camp in the corner and Thompson eventually peeled off a maul to score.
If that point is 10 years from now, or if you are still pulling in an income, then staying defensive from a buy and hold perspective is the order of the day.
FORBES: Advisor Loses Sleep Over Bond Market; Thinks You Should Too
Every contest turned into a potential Waterloo for the Clinton team as it lived to fight another day, only to find itself on the defensive in a new set of contests with equally massive odds and do-or-die stakes.
The push into cyberspace is seen as a defensive move that comes amid fears of a decline in High Street spending.
GSK's effort is expected to kick off a defensive blitzkrieg as big companies take up a public battle against regulatory and legal scrutiny.
When teams play with a defensive midfielder, there's usually a natural pause when he gets the ball, a moment when the opposition can relax ever so slightly, or reposition itself.
WSJ: Mortella's Approach Paying Off for Italian Soccer's Fiorentina
Aguiar blasted a free-kick straight at a two-man Caley defensive wall and a long throw-in from Grant Munro caused problems for the Hearts defence with Rooney's overhead kick blocked before the ball eventually fell to Dougie Imrie who sent his shot too high.
The defensive-minded Giants took Terry Kinard, a defensive back from Clemson who started for their 1986-87 team that routed Elway and the Broncos in Super Bowl XXI.
Ryan, a defensive coordinator in Baltimore before being hired as a head coach in New York, left most of those duties to Mike Pettine the last two years.
When an offensive lineman hits a defensive lineman to begin the play in football a low level concussive hit occurs and the brain of each player is impacted.
Buffel had two early chances for Rangers, poking wide of the post after a Dunfermline defensive error and then forcing a save from Roddy McKenzie.
BBC: SPORT | Football | Scottish Premier | Dunfermline Ath 1-1 Rangers
As a result, it contends, 2005 is the earliest the United States could have even a very limited defensive capability deployed at a site in Alaska.
Ronny Buchel easily split a static defensive line and left Hasler a clear run at Myhill, the forward firing past the keeper but wide of the posts.
But Clinton wanted to negotiate a deal with Moscow that through minimal amendments to the ABM treaty would allow a minimal defensive system to protect against a minimal threat.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Newsweek declares the missile defense debate Over��
Glenn Murray made the most of a defensive mix up before Kazenga Lua Lua fired home a fine free-kick.
Eduardo Nunez, often a defensive liability, turned three double plays at shortstop and made a leaping grab to rob Shane Victorino of a leadoff hit in the fourth.
But the Tanzanians were a transformed side in the second half, coming out of a defensive shell and drawing level in the 57th minute, when a free kick was pushed into the path of Yusuf Macho, who rifled the ball into the net.
应用推荐