Translation of "Defensive haltung" in English

I would only urge you not to be defensive.

They would seem to have adopted a defensive posture, Captain.

This clarifies whether a proactive or defensive stance needs to guide new initiatives.

Furthermore he explained that Hezbollah has a substantially defensive position.

He's in a defensive posture and waits.

Nissa instinctively fell into a defensive battle stance.

However, often the defensive attitude of gas producers and incumbent players in monopolistic markets hampers diversification.

I took a defensive and apologetic posture in my studies of scripture.

When we encounter these people, they often have a rather defensive attitude towards us.

Dabra noticed the defensive position of Cell.

In Europe we need to abandon the defensive position we have adopted towards social rights, as if they were excessive and as if globalisation and competitiveness meant that they need to be 'realistically reviewed'.

Therefore, when a nation such as Cuba has been suffering for so many years due to an embargo that is illegal in international terms and to a relentless pursuit by the United States, we begin to understand the suffocating situation of the Cuban Government. We begin to understand the defensive attitude it must adopt to be able to defend itself against these problems and shortages, particularly now with the Helms-Burton Act, which is also illegal in international terms.

This Millennium Round should not be characterised by a defensive attitude towards the American position on imports of agricultural and genetically modified products into the European Union. Instead, the European Union should be finding confederates for its dynamic global strategy.

The naked truth is that we are in retreat and in defensive mode in the southern neighbourhood and the eastern neighbourhood.

For the forthcoming budgets, we need to adopt a constructive approach, which looks to the future, and no longer a defensive stance, aimed at containing national self-interest.

Finally, from a commercial point of view, I must stress here that the share of overseas countries and territories in trade with the Community is very low, which makes it difficult to understand the Commission' s defensive position.

Those who, in this area, adopt a defensive and protectionist position do not recognise the strengths and competitive advantages that the European Union possesses.

There is a lot of talk about there being a rather defensive approach to European cooperation at the moment, especially after the votes in the Netherlands and France on the Constitutional Treaty.

Samsung has apparently adopted a defensive stance in litigation - instead of actively disproving the theory that leukemia was caused by their working environment, they have focused on nullifying the victims' claim for lack of evidence.

As the dust settles from the shock waves of the financial crisis, and with trends pointing towards the US-China axis as the key motor of the global economy, Europe is clearly in a more defensive frame of mind.

On immigration, he felt that the EU was adopting too defensive a stance when in fact it should be welcoming the potentially enriching effect of immigration, not to mention recognising its inevitability, particularly in view of Europe's current demographic and economic situation.

Addressees sometimes perceived them as too formal, which led them to adopt a defensive attitude in reaction.

In his previous follow-up report, the Ombudsman had criticised the institutions' defensive approach when it came to cases concerning calls for tenders regarding EU programmes and projects.

In this context, mistrust and intolerance towards minority communities have spread swiftly, pushing them into a defensive position.

The Commission's defensive approach in this case represents a missed opportunity for the institution and risks damaging the image of the Union's administration in the eyes of citizens.