Pettine plans on installing a pressure defense that attacks opposing offenses, which the Bills hope will lead to more opportunities for turnovers.
In their final Big East appearance before bolting to the ACC next season, the 19th-ranked Orange wilted against Louisville's relentless pressure defense and squandered a 16-point advantage during a 78-61 defeat in the conference championship game Saturday night.
The possibility of sequester cuts kicking in, and the lack of a budget, have put pressure on defense companies that rely on government funding including Lockheed, Raytheon, Honeywell, Northtrop Grumman, and Boeing, among others.
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Moving the original trial date from December to July, for example, put an enormous amount of pressure on the defense.
This is a veteran team that knows how to take the extra base and put pressure on a defense, and in the absence of young legs, that's what they'll have to rely on.
That kind of emphasized for the defense the pressure Koenig was under.
The visitors' defense delivered early pressure from every breakdown and efficiently frustrated the English attack, holding it to six penalties.
Anthony as always will be the focus of a defense, and pressure will build on Smith to take make good decisions and take good shots.
Gorbachev's skillful diplomacy, in combination with highly publicized domestic reform proposals, has greatly increased political pressure in the West for cutting defense programs and for a wide range of concessions and new agreements with the Soviet Union.
Lockheed Martin , one of the largest defense contractors in the world, managed to beat earnings expectations on Thursday in a difficult quarter and year, as government budgets and defense spending come under pressure with governments around the world trying to rein in spending.
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But the Cardinals turned up the fullcourt pressure and started playing the kind of defense that had them win 10 straight games.
In Game 3 against the Jazz, a 96-54 blowout, that was exactly what happened: they did not shoot particularly well in the first half, but their defensive pressure and their almost instantaneous rotations on defense were dazzling.
Despite the lack of specifics, the agreement is the latest example of how the U.S. is trying to underline its continued commitment to the Asia-Pacific region, as U.S. allies increasingly turn to Washington for reassurance that it will intervene if a military conflict occurs, even as domestic austerity pressure forces the Pentagon to reduce its defense spending.
It was the latter two concerns that led ITT to decide recently it should spin off its defense operations in response to investor pressure.
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Fortunately, a congressional rescue mission can be effected fairly easily, thanks to the Osprey contractors' commitment to the program and that of the Marines -- who, to their lasting credit, have never wavered (despite intense pressure from the Office of the Secretary of Defense) in their insistence that the Osprey is the Corps' top procurement priority.
The new thinking is that by threatening indiscriminate reductions to both domestic and defense programs, the GOP can put pressure on Democrats to accept cuts in entitlement programs.
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That prompted an angry response from prosecutors, who said in their own filing that the offer wasn't genuine and accused the defense of trying to drum up public pressure for a deal.
President Bush will be under greater pressure to surrender American freedom of action on missile defense there than any U.S. leader since Ronald Reagan, who was tempted to do so by Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik two decades ago.
Recently, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been ratcheting up pressure on the other NATO allies to do more, asking for about 3, 500 soldiers to help train Afghan troops, 16 helicopters, and three infantry battalions with a willingness to fight.
Since the long-term deficit only becomes worse, Republicans will continue to have ample opportunity to pressure Democrats into accepting spending cuts and keep them on the defense with regards to new government programs.
In both negotiations, strong pressure was brought to bear by those in the State and Defense Departments responsible for managing the U.S.-Japanese bilateral relationship not to push Japan beyond where its negotiators said they could go.
Israel, which is widely believed to have nuclear capability, did not retaliate under pressure from the United States, which agreed to supply the Patriot missile system to the Jewish state for its defense.
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