How To Use Defence In A Sentence

The right back found himself in unfamiliar territory in the opposing penalty area after a swift exchange of passes that opened up Reading's defence. Times, Sunday Times
One could argue that such a missile defence system would bring about the abandonment of ballistic missiles as strategic weapons.
The only defence remaining alive at present is, therefore, I suggest, the disputed decision about qualifying privilege.
‘Ah Dublin, you're giving it away,’ he wailed in the 55th minute, as the Dublin defence fluffed its lines yet again, giving Laois another unearned scoring opportunity.
Minister for Defence Robert Hill talks with an Australian Army captain and warrant officer at a Middle East base.

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Defence lawyers routinely accuse victims who failed to make 'vigorous enough' protests, as in fact having consented.
The police had a good defence to the claims in false imprisonment and unlawful detention. Times, Sunday Times
The farmer, the papers had said, was a part-time policeman, a member of the Protestant Ulster Defence Regiment, the UDR. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
Our reaction to a tickling sensation may have arisen from a defence against creepy-crawlies. Times, Sunday Times
It seems that CSIS witnesses may have engaged in "prevarication," and that material germane to Harkat's legal defence has been withheld by CSIS for no good reason. Archive 2009-05-01
Last week I lamented the lack of tries in our now defence-dominated game, what with the accent on specialist prevention coaching.
New saltmarshes, mudflats and sandflats would evolve and help to form natural sea defences, as well as create a prime location for rare species to make their homes.
The defence barrister, David Lane, then stood up to offer some brief remarks in mitigation.
His record of 38 wins, no losses, includes 16 defences of his WBU title, and his all-action style has made Hatton the darling of his Manchester home town where his fans are both loyal and loud.
He used a specially-arranged series of interviews during the Commonwealth summit yesterday to mount a stout defence of his position.
While I am sharply critical of American unilateralism and realpolitik masquerading as the defence of liberty, at times I find our own moralizing irritating.
Liz dropped her defences and began to relax.
Early ideas had envisaged a mobile linear defence. NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
If you are in a high-risk area with no such defences planned, your insurer may stop your cover. Times, Sunday Times
In these cases no defence is offered so they are signed off electronically by the court on evidence supplied by creditors. Times, Sunday Times
And, despite some stout defence, a feature of York's game this season, they were unable to prevent scrum half Duffy from scoring from short range.
At a preparatory hearing he raised possible defences of duress, necessity and public interest.
As the judge reminded the jury, in interview Bodrul denied that he was acting in self - defence and he said that he was not acting under provocation.
i was in floods of tears at the end of "Bridge to Terabithia" when i went to go see it with me ten year old nephew. he promptly spent the rest of the day laughing at me for it and calling me a woose but in my defence it was really sad. lol. wrenchturner (5 posts) on April 16, 2009 - 9: 46pm. AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
But it is hard to imagine him miscalculating that it could be done in the teeth of active opposition from the other political parties, the electorate, and a somewhat sullen defence force.
They maintain close connections with many of these firms, particularly the top defence companies.
The magistrates agreed to the defence counsel's application for the defendants' costs to be taxed and paid out of central funds.
The problem is White to play and mate in two moves against any Black defence.
James then raced onto a long ball over the top of the defence, chipped the goalkeeper but could only look on in frustration as the ball rebounded off the post.
Why did the defence barrister do it that way? Times, Sunday Times
They belong to a secret resistance army that is the nation's last defence. Times, Sunday Times
Civil defence, police and the military worked throughout the morning to search for survivors and recover bodies amid the crumpled and charred cars. Times, Sunday Times
The prosecution lawyer cross-examined the defence witness.
His defence lawyer said that Wilson's lifestyle had altered dramatically since the offences three years ago.
Over the course of three and a half days they listened to evidence presented by both sides, and then questioned the witnesses for both defence and prosecution before retiring to consider their verdict.
On the stroke of half time Oxford once again scythed through the shaky gold defence, hooker Andy Dalgleish supplying Bradshaw with the perfect pass to score his second of the evening.
The most common defence against feeling for hospital doctors is to see the symptom but not the patient.
This was a man who had no intention of allowing any error to distract from his all-important evidence in defence of the Government.
They will always be fiercely competitive up front and totally committed in defence. The Sun
If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them, with trifles and gingles, but use them justly and graciously, with sufficient guard nevertheless; and do not win their favor, by helping them to invade their enemies, but for their defence it is not amiss; and send oft of them, over to the country that plants, that they may see a better condition than their own, and commend it when they return. The Essays
They seemed to me to be rudimental, burrowing men, still standing on their defence, awaiting their transformation. Walden
The defence budget was still growing.
Larkham was in his element in his country's victory over Romania as he constantly probed for breaks against a brittle defence.
His capacity for taking the mickey out of defences was also legendary even though he could be diffident in front of goal in a way that Finney would have found unnatural.
This week, at a meeting attended by government ministers, provincial governors, traditional chiefs, health experts, the commander of the Zimbabwe's defence forces, diplomats and the media, the government announced what it called a nationwide blitz to control, cure and eliminate the disease. Caroline Gluck: A National Blitz to Control Cholera in Zimbabwe
John Hales, clerk of the hanaper, a learned and able man, and, like all who espoused this party, a zealous protestant, had written, and secretly circulated, a book in defence of the claims of the lady Catherine, and he had also procured opinions of foreign lawyers in favor of the validity of her marriage. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
Inasmuch as the defence needs only to secure the vote of one juryman to procure a disagreement, this offer is a comparatively safe one for the defendant to make, since the prosecutor, who must secure unanimity on the part of the jury (at least in New York State), can afford to take no chances of letting an incompetent or otherwise unfit talesman slip into the box. Courts and Criminals
Flood victims were furious today after planners called for a £1 million defence scheme at Stamford Bridge to be put on hold.
His defence could be porous. Times, Sunday Times
The yellow book has seen taxpayers, rather than companies, bear the cost of redundancies as shrinking budgets have shut defence factories across the country. Times, Sunday Times
The frustrating part for the Scots is that the Czechs, while occasionally slick in attack, appeared glaringly vulnerable in defence. Strikerless Scotland's negative approach is punished by Czechs
Ball after ball was lofted into the Colt goalmouth but time and again their defence came up trumps as they repelled attack after attack.
Each participating State will provide for its legislative approval of defence expenditures.
He put up a stout defence in court.
But gongs were awarded for ‘services to the defence industries’.
From the beginning, professions mobilised themselves in their defence against quacks and impostors through associations or institutes.
Quite an interesting place - they were manufacturing Li-thionyl chloride batteries for defence. A shout-out to the separator
The defence budget is not some theoretical construct. Times, Sunday Times
There are defences of meat-eating - some of them good. Times, Sunday Times
It may be said that there is an evidentiary onus on an accused person in raising a defence of alibi.
The trial has been delayed until November because the defence is not ready to proceed.
Jerusalem's wish-list includes nuclear-capable Tomahawk cruise missiles, real-time satellite intelligence and funding for missile defence.
A small piece, such as in that day was employed for the defence of castles, called a falconet, was elevated above the canoes, so that the shot, passing over the heads of their inmates, might take effect upon the woods along the shore. The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series
This attacks the body's immune system, which is its defence against infection, and at present there is no known cure.
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The group is lobbying for a reduction in defence spending.
The supposedly cocksure and unshakeable defence secretary has come under pressure to resign over the photo scandal.
And he is now set for another defence before a summer showdown with a rival world champion. The Sun
I still prefer to play in defence.
The time was propitious for the banding together of women in self-defence. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
But that is moving dangerously close to what we might call the Gilligan defence: some of the details were wrong, m'lud, but it was, in essence, true.
Handing down the legal equivalent of a rap on the knuckles, Judge Teare said the public might see his compassion as "impossibly lenient", but explained he had been swung by the moral standing of those arraigned before him, as set out by counsel of the defence in mitigation. Hugh Muir's diary
Their strength in defence counterbalances our strength in attack.
Poor Leigh defence let the home team in for several soft tries which gave the home team a respectable result.
I would wager that when our defence minister made fun of you, Elsie, he was wearing a boring black or blue suit and a sedate tie.
His impassioned defence of free speech changed the tenor of the debate.
West had managed to avoid the endplay and the defence could always come to five tricks. Times, Sunday Times
Macarthy, the defence lawyer, found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable.
In the face of such an onslaught, the Germans, military as well as civilians, were, by and large, defenceless.
It purely comes down to the players - defending is not just about the defence, it requires the whole team to make an effort.
The sorting is quite obvious; less competent people are more likely to get caught (and more likely to be able to be railroaded) and less able to mount a good defence. Matthew Yglesias » Prisons and Mental Institutions Revisited
Keep the defence tight, and when on offence, I want to see quick feet and fast passing.
They target mainly defence industry executives and government employees, the report said. Times, Sunday Times
There is a class of persons (happily not quite so numerous as formerly) who think it enough if a person assents undoubtingly to what they think true, though he has no knowledge whatever of the grounds of the opinion, and could not make a tenable defence of it against the most superficial objections. On Liberty
The defence are arguing that he was bribed to withdraw his testimony.
Alongside the land side Japanese defences, the Japanese high command put their faith in the kamikazes which it was believed would inflict such serious casualties on the Americans in Okinawa that they would retreat.
The listeners grow suspicious with his self-defence story and discover the truth concerns them all.
In its defence the Third Party has admitted liability by the defendant but denies any obligation for contribution or indemnity.
Herondas too, the author of mimes written in choliambs (‘limping iambics’), a metre typical of the archaic iambist Hipponax, dedicates an apologetic-programmatic poem, Mimiambus 8, to the defence of his poetics.
He always blames the defence when the team is not doing well.
When it came to the defence case the appellant was simply called and asked to confirm on oath that the statement under caution she had made to the police was true.
They relied entirely on these few weapons for their defence.
All these ships being of notable and approued seruice comming neere to the mouth of the Straights hard by the coast of Barbary, descried twelue tall Gallies brauely furnished and strongly prouided with men and munition, ready to seaze vpon these English ships: which being perceiued by the Captaines and Masters thereof, wee made speedy preparation for the defence of our selues, still waiting all the night long for the approching of the enemie. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
He has been kept busy behind a porous defence this season. Times, Sunday Times
The defence attorney requested an adjournment.
He has been outstanding in central defence so far this season.
Nassau Candy is recalling twenty-six peanut bulk products since they could be infested with salmonella, an mammal that can means critical as well as sometimes deadly infections, especially in immature children, a elderly as well as those with weakened defence systems. Archive 2009-12-01
After much yardage of "feel-good" waffle, EurActive gets down to brass tacks on regulatory issues, telling us that Witney, "…does not believe a change of the overall situation for European defence procurement can be achieved with 'dirigiste' measures from Brussels that members states are not comfortable with. White man speak with forked tongue
It is against these projections and insinuations that Luzhin tries to devise a defence, the failure of which has tragic consequences.
The fort was built in 1793 under John Simcoe and was Toronto's main defence against an army of mindless marauders in 1812.
Defence is mostly about cooperation with partner. Times, Sunday Times
Happily one of the rabbis featured in this documentary advocates a sneaky line of defence.
Both nations have similar military capabilities but are facing budgetary pressures and want to cut defence spending. Times, Sunday Times
In Malton and Norton, defences will be a mix of reinforced concrete retaining walls, earth embankments and steel sheet piling to run parallel with the river.
The second alleged spy is an official of the German defence ministry. Times, Sunday Times
Defences now being put in place have been calculated to ensure a relatively watertight town for the next 50 years.
When you're in a defence industry that is inevitable.
The more vigorous growth also provides a better defence against blight disease and fruits especially have proved to have a higher resistance. The Sun
Air defence systems are designed to take out warplanes flying at speed. Times, Sunday Times
It is clear from the cases that the breach by the plaintiff is a complete defence to a claim that the defendant failed to perform its promise.
Defence policy needs to insure against long-term risks, not only current threats. Times, Sunday Times
His defence that King John had disafforested Brewood saved his life and he escaped with only a fine.
As usual , the lion's share of the budget is for defence.
The city lay defenceless before the most powerful fighting force on the continent.
Defence Minister Moshe Arens had successfully argued that defence spending could not be reduced in the light of the ongoing Gulf crisis.
Sadly it wasn't quite enough to break down the watertight Rovers defence and as the play ended, the hooter signalled the end of a quite remarkable encounter.
A lady with a flatulent Pekinese on her lap chipped in to tell us that the National Canine Defence League has changed its name to the Dogs Trust because its committee realised that very few people these days understand the word ‘canine’.
At regular intervals along these walls occur little towers, for their defence, reminding one of beads strung on a rosary; the great watch-tower at the gate, with its projecting machicolation, forming the pendent cross, -- the whole serving to guard the town within from the dangers of war, even as the rosary protects the city of Mansoul from the attacks of Sin and Death -- though, sooth to say, since the invention of gunpowder and the Reformation, both the one and the other appear to have lost much of their former efficacy. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
By issuing the order, the Ministry of Defence can argue that the soldier endangered himself by refusing to obey the command.
The stats cant leap to his defence either.
All the time that he had appeared so indifferent to what was going on, he had been looking slily about for some missile or weapon of defence, and at the very instant when the swords were drawn, he espied, standing in the chimney – corner, an old basket – hilted rapier in a rusty scabbard. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
The immune system is the body's defence against infection.
During the trial, the prosecution was accused of withholding crucial evidence from the defence.
And it coincides almost exactly with Dysart's appointment to the Ministry of Defence three years ago.
Real's defence of the cup has so far been unconvincing, even in last week's defeat of the Russians, but they are in little danger of failing to qualify.
And invocation of religious belief did not necessarily provide a defence to what was otherwise a valid claim. Times, Sunday Times
The 51-year-old is likely to impress Washington with an impeccable track record on human rights and her staunch defence of media freedom. Times, Sunday Times
Plenty of Tories are, it seems, cock-a-hoop about the news, still to be confirmed, that General Sir Richard Dannatt is to be elevated to the House of Lords where he will become a Tory defence adviser and, perhaps, a minister in the next Conservative government. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
Others, though, have leapt to his defence, claiming the gainsayers just don't get it.
I know without a doubt that if provoked my mother could become a homicidal maniac in defence of her animals.
She's about as defenceless as a mamba, thought Alma, and yet she couldn't break the spell. LOST CHILDREN
And what you call invidious ghettos were great defences, they were havens, oases of peace and respect. Is religion a force for good... or would we be happier without God?
Inevitably, there is suspicion that the latest internal recasting of the MoD, though triggered by 10 months' work by Lord Levene and the defence reform unit, has also been shaped at the 11th hour by Downing Street's extreme anger at recent unauthorised public complaints by the service chiefs about the sustainability of the Libya mission. Ministry of Defence: Too many chiefs | Editorial
Yet in most cases regional custom was the surest defence against the aggression of neighbours, immediate lords or sovereigns.
Britain also sought Swedish support at the recent Nice summit in defence of its national vetoes on tax and welfare policies.
The call for a defence of basic internet freedoms comes amid moves by a number of countries to construct international frameworks for restrictions on the internet. Times, Sunday Times
Their defence has been porous since the start of the season but crucially it kept a clean sheet in the home victory over the Dutch last week.
The home side started brightly and they did have the visitors defence under real pressure during the opening minutes of the match.
We might as well begin the case for the defence early. Times, Sunday Times
Without doubt our defence is a much steadier ship these days.
One aim of these reforms is effective defence with minimal expenditure.
That defence thou hast, betake thee tot: of what nature the wrongs are thou hast done him, I know not; but thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as the hunter, attends thee at the orchard-end. Act III. Scene IV. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will
Britain's biggest retirement housebuilder has appointed a chairman whose career has covered defence, infrastructure, components manufacturing and brickmaking. Times, Sunday Times
In the first six months of 1944 Rommel strongly reinforced the defences and placed obstacles on all large beaches.
Even so, Hague has offered to host a conference on the matter and at Munich gave among examples of internet attacks on "British interests" his own staff and a defence contractor being hit by "Zeus" malware that evaded defences by pretending to come from the White House. William Hague reveals hacker attack on Foreign Office in call for cyber rules
A pretty good defence mechanism is to be open - but also, I think, without being too priggish and sanctimonious, it's a kind of responsibility if you're in public life.
French defence ministry officials said that the rebels were also supported by its special forces who were acting in an advisory role. Times, Sunday Times
He said: ‘The judge punitively and vindictively imposed these defence costs.’
The only defence remaining alive at present is, therefore, I suggest, the disputed decision about qualifying privilege.
Counsel for the defence submitted that his client was clearly innocent.
One diplomat said the anti-war camp in fact raised no objections to his proposal last week partly out of deference to his more emollient tone on their plans for European Union defence.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Pik Botha acted as a "handbrake" on cross-border military raids by the South African Defence Force when he served on the State Security Council, he said on Wednesday. ANC Daily News Briefing
Aware of his defenceless condition in the bright daylight, when his purblindness would prevent him from evading the attacks of his enemies, he seeks some obscure retreat where he may pass the day without exposing himself to observation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
This post also nobly defended in the late war, while it brings the affecting recollection of a confidential friend in my military family, associates with the remembrance of the illustrious defence of another fort, in the war of the revolution, by the _friend_ now near me. Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United State
The flying winger was simply unstoppable, his direct running and blistering pace making a mockery of one of the so-called best defences in world football. The Sun
Requests by the defence to allow the three men to leave the country on security grounds pending this appeal have been denied.
Our defence had him closely marked throughout the first half.
When governments sell defence equipment to each other, the price usually bears little resemblance to the costs charged by industry. Times, Sunday Times
It may also force the regime to withdraw forces from other restive towns and cities to bolster its defence of the capital. Times, Sunday Times
U.S. officials believe that a rudimentary missile defence system might be operational by 2005.
And Lou is certainly not going to be the first to jump to the defence of the arsonists, whoever they may be.
When it showed more prisoners, the Australian Defence Department said that its failure to pixelate the faces of captives was an infringement of the Geneva Conventions.
The call for a defence of basic internet freedoms comes amid moves by a number of countries to construct international frameworks for restrictions on the internet. Times, Sunday Times
There were also artillery batteries and thousands of yards of interlocking systems of barbed wire defences.
The firm has a cosy relationship with the Ministry of Defence.
The land was flat, giving no scope for defence.
Here, brother Sancho Panza," said Don Quixote when he saw it, "we may plunge our hands up to the elbows in what they call adventures; but observe, even shouldst thou see me in the greatest danger in the world, thou must not put a hand to thy sword in my defence, unless indeed thou perceivest that those who assail me are rabble or base folk; for in that case thou mayest very properly aid me; but if they be knights it is on no account permitted or allowed thee by the laws of knighthood to help me until thou hast been dubbed a knight. The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete
The defence lawyer made an eloquent plea for his client's acquittal.
The Perth Saints seemed on their way to their first back-to-back victories of this league campaign when their defence committed an unpardonable error.
Existing defences are more than 100 years old and fully time-expired. Times, Sunday Times
At the request of the defence it was searched at the beginning of the trial.
For their men of war; it is a dangerous state, where they live and remain in a body, and are used to donatives; whereof we see examples in the janizaries, and pretorian bands of Rome; but trainings of men, and arming them in several places, and under several commanders, and without donatives, are things of defence, and no danger. The Essays
Even while injured last year he bored through the Kerry defence for a wonderful early goal like a knife through butter but after that the pain of a groin injury which had troubled him for quite some time took its toll.
Saval's defence was mainly to blame for this defeat after conceding three soft goals.
His study identified a variety of ways that a bank employee could defeat the main line of defence in the central security system guarding PIN numbers.
In his case, on appeal, the Chief Justice for the first time ruled that the defence of chance medley that downsized murder to manslaughter could not be pleaded under British law.
Yass attacked time and again and the defence of the team was tested, however, they stood firm and held the line.
The couple offered no defence and have settled for an undisclosed sum. Times, Sunday Times
Once the campaign gathered steam, the Trust had to take an interest in the matter, and found that its first lines of defence were inadequate to it.
Hartnett said he was pushed by Laurence, and hit back in self-defence with a single slap with the palm of his hand.
It seemed harsh and Wise mounted a stout defence. The Sun
He urged his ministers to challenge the military, particularly if they suspected that defence chiefs were ignoring inconvenient facts. Times, Sunday Times
What do you call the surest means of self-defence? The Reckoning
The next stage of their attack – and attack is the time-honoured best form of defence, after all – is generally to repeat a variation of the hate speech of Janice Raymond as iterated in her transphobic screed The Transsexual Empire: the making of the she-male: Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
The defence ministry denied the report.
The Drumaness bowler scythed through the defence of Alan Millar with just the second delivery of his first over, dismissing the Bangor opener for 4 runs.
Twenty minutes in, I was so disorientated, I approached a pet stall and asked if I could take a photo of the unfamiliar creature for sale next to the monkeys - it was, in my defence, a particularly unlovely baby.
The announcement was welcomed by environmental campaigners, who had criticised the government for failing to back up support for natural flood defences with cash for projects. Times, Sunday Times
Defence Minister Joe Modise was not yet in control of the affairs of the Department of Defence, defence secretary Pierre ANC Daily News Briefing
Further cuts in defence spending are being considered.
It represents an important change in German defence policy. Times, Sunday Times
‘I had more confidence than others,’ the narrator explained, ‘in the vincibility of this disease, and in the success of those measures which we had used for our defence against it.’
The Beast had been busy arguing that it needed a good six months more to mount a proper, lingering defence.
Often bitten as they sleep, the uncovered youngsters are defenceless against the mosquitoes that carry it. The Sun
The fact is that it is not for the defence to have to request the prosecution to serve its evidence.
Yet, in the absence of the traditional ruling magnates to supervise border rule and defence, the region's precarious peace dissolved into feuds and reiving.
The Ministry of Defence confirmed that Dr Fox had asked his most senior official, Permanent Secretary Ursula Brennan, to look into what he describes as "baseless allegations" concerning Adam Werrity. Evening Standard - Home
The Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Michael Boyce, said further British forces, including paratroops, infantry and armoured units as well as RAF strike aircraft, could be deployed into the region at short notice.
The delay enabled the Japanese garrison of 19,000 troops to construct the most formidable beach defences, a way through which had to be cleared by underwater demolition teams.
With play moving fast up and down field the defences on each side were getting the better of the forward lines.

How To Use Defence In A Sentence

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