Major concerns: energy security, cyber defense, emigration "brain drain" and initial defense.

The recon platoon and the Alpha Company 1st Platoon provided initial defense at the position.

Send your giants in beside my orcs to crush the initial defenses of Mithral Hall.

MacArthur attempted to slow the Japanese advance with an initial defense against the Japanese landings.

These men would be used to test the initial defenses, confident that their losses would be minimal.

His initial defense was that he was an officer of the Banda Oriental.

The Administration had requested $330 million in funding for work on the interceptor, which would be a key element of any initial space-based defense.

I could feel his initial defense relax.

Our initial defense was pretty good.

Twenty-foot-high brick walls, barbed wire, and a moat were only the initial defenses.