defending

[ US /dɪˈfɛndɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dɪfˈɛndɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. attempting to or designed to prevent an opponent from winning or scoring
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How To Use defending In A Sentence

  • 12: 19: "Not defending [Douay: 'revenging'] yourselves, my dearly beloved. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • Finally after 15 minutes of perseverance the team scored -- not to the liking of the opposition, who had been defending excellently.
  • Typically directors will request indemnities from the company when they become involved in a claim or if they are successful in defending a claim made against them.
  • From the work we have done it seems that home advantage resides in sides defending more when they are away. Times, Sunday Times
  • I've harped on about this before, but was interested in Bryan Caplan's critqiue of the Levy-Peart project: I'm going after analytical egalitarians because they're wasting their talent and energy defending the undefendable. Baffled by "Analytical Egalitarianism", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Jacinto killed one man while defending his honor and now plans to take the life of the Colonel.
  • If you are defending your business to your banker "after" filing the S-1, you had a clear sequencing problem.
  • Australia play rivals New Zealand while the Americans, two-times defending gold medallists, tip off against Greece.
  • The Court of Appeals held that Hallberg was judicially estopped from indemnity from Portland because his claim was factually inconsistent with claims he made defending the previous suit on which he had prevailed. One less bell to answer (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • From the work we have done it seems that home advantage resides in sides defending more when they are away. Times, Sunday Times
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