1.  Any discussion of siting has, therefore, concentrated on such factors as communication links, defensive positions and local bridging points.

2.  Cal will have new starters at five defensive positions Saturday.

3.  It was most useful in defensive positions.

4.  The Labour leadership has taken a typically defensive position on the politics of the war.

5.  This straddle-leg stance is the basic defensive position.

6.  Allied warships began softening up German defensive positions along the Normandy coast.

7.  Enemy resistance was unexpectedly light, with many thousands of Iraqi troops either fleeing their defensive positions or waiting to be overrun in order to surrender en masse.

8.  And their problems start at catcher and shortstop, the two most important defensive positions.

9.  Bosnian Serb forces were frantically reinforcing their defensive positions near the town this week with tanks and artillery pieces.

10.  A group of Haitians gathered near the airport Wednesday to watch marines fill sandbags to set up a defensive position.