Irony is usually thought of today as a defense mechanism for the socially insecure.
They contain a cyanide compound, a natural part of the plant's defense mechanism.
Splitting is a primitive psychological defense mechanism used to make difficult people in our lives seem all good, or all bad, as needed.
Invisible and, often odorless, green leaf volatiles emitted from vegetation act as a defense mechanism, communicating to other foliage that danger is near.
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This brings to mind the psychological defense mechanism called projection, which causes a person to attribute, or project, unseemly feelings and ideas to someone else.
Its colloquial name stems from the odor emitted from glands on its abdomen a defense mechanism triggered by disturbances like predators or homeowners who stumble upon them in attics.
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And ironically, the initial hit will result from the inability of Congress to agree on a fiscal 2013 defense appropriation, rather than the sequestration mechanism everybody in D.
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The special joint committee charged with finding additional reductions may develop a plan that prevents the sequester mechanism from being activated, and apportion defense cuts in a manner that contractors find palatable.
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The United States should facilitate the cease-fire announced yesterday by Ortega and call for the establishment of a international mechanism for its supervision under the auspices of the Inter-American Defense Board (IADB) of the Organization of American States.
And on top of all of this is the threat of future defense cuts that would be triggered by the budget control act's sequester mechanism in the event that the joint committee, which Frank mentioned I happen to serve on, doesn't come up with a spending reduction package that Congress can pass.
They were parchment barriers from the beginning, never possessing a self-enforcing mechanism that would compel other actors in the system, including citizens themselves to rally to their defense.
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