The rush defense first became popular in rugby league, a stripped-down version of the sport.

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The rush defense forces outside backs to move forward rapidly towards opposition runners, smothering attacking moves before they develop.

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If they enforce it 1 time in 100, then we should be talking about how they should enforce 100 times out of 100, not rush do the defense of the person who violated a valid policy.

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In the meantime, on the flip side, the Giants defense generated a pass rush it hadn't been able to in its past three weeks.

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Even before Sept. 11 set off a rush of antiterror technology research, Sandia and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) had the zany idea of using honeybees to stand in for humans when collecting traces of bioweapons and explosives.

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Tampa Bay had the NFL's worst pass defense a year ago, and a sagging pass rush was part of the problem.

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In this weekend's AFC Championship game against the Ravens, whose defense ranked No. 2 in the league against the rush, Green-Ellis doesn't figure to get a lot of carries.

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"It's a mistake to rush headlong into this, " said Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund.

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Defense attorney Mark O'Mara has asked that there be no rush to judgment.

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So Mitt Romney is -- it's clear that he is being impacted by the push from the right, the Rush Limbaughs of the world, congressional Republicans, who are pushing him to go back on a decision and a defense that he's had in place for years.

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