31.   Scientists at Fort Detrick develop defenses to germ warfare, but they also have battled outbreaks of Ebola and other exotic diseases around the world.

32.   Stepashin, meanwhile, endorsed efforts to develop defenses against potential missile attack by rogue regimes.

33.   The British former defense minister also called on the United States to help develop European defense by lifting restrictions on exports of military technology.

34.   The Bush administration wants no limits on its effort to develop missile defenses.

35.   The mice developed defenses not only in the bloodstream, but also in the cells that line the mouth, nose, gut and other body passageways.

36.   They agreed that both countries had legal room to develop defenses against short-range missiles and that long-range missiles could be used to launch commercial space vehicles.

37.   When a product is overused, it hastens the evolutionary process by which bacteria develop defenses against agents designed to kill them.

38.   In his view, the more immediate threat is from short-range missiles and that the funding should go to developing theater defenses against them.

39.   And we must have the freedom and the flexibility to develop effective defenses against those attacks.

40.   They want to develop defenses against ballistic missiles that would cover US territory as well as to protect US troops stationed overseas.