1.  Existing companies-bookstores, for example-are taking defensive action against online retailers.

2.  From now on - offensive rather than defensive action is the key note.

3.  However, if the government failed to reciprocate, then the LTTE reserved the right to carry out defensive actions.

4.  Dhlakama later claimed that these were defensive actions and warned that they would continue unless the government withdrew its troops from areas under Renamo control.

5.  This was not an attack upon Wray but first of all a defensive action to prevent Wray from causing really serious injury to his friend.

6.  But Dr. Jack C. Schultz, an entomologist at Pennsylvania State University, said this natural defensive action by the tree may ultimately be self-defeating.

7.  But it allowed defensive actions, especially those taken on behalf of patients.

8.  In a statement Tuesday night, CS Holding confirmed that it had proposed a merger to UBS and denied that a defensive action against Ebner as involved.

9.  Israel has insisted that the capture of the heights was a defensive action.

10.  Strong Israeli defensive actions are justified.