How To Use Fence in In A Sentence

She narrowly missed out on gold to Pippa Funnell after knocking down a fence in the showjumping.
a "nester," or "truck farmer," who was likely to fence in the river somewhere and homestead some land. The Eagle's Heart
He put up a stout defence in court.
But gongs were awarded for ‘services to the defence industries’.
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

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They target mainly defence industry executives and government employees, the report said. Times, Sunday Times
When you're in a defence industry that is inevitable.
A weir is a dam placed across a river to raise or divert the water, or a fence in a stream to catch or retain fish.
Then one day, he noticed that a mare, a stallion and a foal had crossed the fence into the park.
She says communal living suits her better than any white picket fence in the suburbs could.
He plans to fence in about 100 acres of his ranch five miles north of town.
The trio were caught on the new police equipment as they scaled a fence in a night-time raid. The Sun
I screamed again, flitting back and forth along the fence in search of a way in, but before his name stopped echoing down the street, the leech mutated from pink to red, a rapid discoloration that reminded me of how the lure in the administration window had changed. Bleeding Violet
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.
Some questioned the political gain of such self-sacrifice, or of trying to take down a heavily guarded fence in a gesture of dubious symbolism.
He cleared the fence in one leap.
The little boy picked up a stone and bunged it over the fence into the courtyard of his neighbour.
He plans to fence in about 100 acres of his ranch five miles north of town.
The noble art of self-defence in all its aesthetic glory will always draw polite applause from appreciative audiences. The Sun
The noble art of self-defence in all its aesthetic glory will always draw polite applause from appreciative audiences. The Sun
The diffence in technique implies a diffent frame of mind: the transparent approach seems more synthetical to me. Shady Diamond Illusion
He went over the fence in one jump.
A second defence industry insider who also attended the dinner had a similar recollection. Times, Sunday Times
The seven-year-old, who fell at the first fence in the same race last year, took the lead three fences from home.
The fourth shell impacted against a garden fence in the married quarters area... A tape recording? FIELD OF BLOOD
The Chelsea manager is more likely, though, to bring in Paulo Ferreira at right-back and use Branislav Ivanovic in the centre of defence in Alex's absence. Chelsea's Alex to miss three weeks with thigh-muscle injury
The rest of us are aware how low the chances are of actually arresting and convicting anyone for an offence in the first place.
The school has already had to put up a palisade fence inside the school grounds to protect the quadrangle and has been employing a security guard to patrol when the school buildings are hired out.
It can also be used to fence in pets or protect flower beds from damage by pets and wild vermin such as rabbits.
This compared favourably with the matched control group of whom 27 had been convicted of a violent offence in the post-programme period.
The guards erected a line of fence in front of the stockade, and shot to kill any prisoner who crossed the line.
The 4ft 5in tall boy was disqualified from driving following a motoring offence in December last year.
It had just reached the God-will-it-ever-burn stage, with smoke billowing over the lapboard fence into the neighbour's yard. Some by Fire
Dr. Kenn, having a conscience void of offence in the matter, was still inclined to persevere, was still averse to give way before a public sentiment that was odious and contemptible; but he was finally wrought upon by the consideration of the peculiar responsibility attached to his office, of avoiding the appearance of evil, an appearance that is always dependent on the average quality of surrounding minds. V. The Last Conflict. Book VII—The Final Rescue
A remark that is considered humorous in one culture can cause great offence in another.
She put up a spirited defence in the final game.
It was a superb team effort in turning defence into attack into a goal. Times, Sunday Times
Last week, I reported that a lady had been arrested because her Pyrenean mountain dogs had been worrying Owd Tom's ewes, a capital offence in the countryside with lambing about to start.
We have a chainlink fence in the front yard with vines and gourds growing on it.
This compared favourably with the matched control group of whom 27 had been convicted of a violent offence in the post-programme period.
Cathedral deans, like vicars, enjoy freehold and therefore cannot be removed from office unless convicted of a serious offence in the secular or ecclesiastical courts.
I was over the fence in double-quick time.
It was his second offence in two years, having been banned for nine months in October 2003 after testing positive for the steroid clenbuterol.
Moonlight nights are, as a rule, blank ones for the "sugarer" -- (Do the moths fly high to the light?) -- but I once had a grand capture of many specimens of the "sword-grass" (C. exoleta) on a bright moonlight and very windy night in February; and Dr. Knaggs says that on one occasion he met with night-flying moths literally swarming on a sugared fence in a field once in his possession, whither, in the small hours, he had taken a stroll with a friend on the brightest moonlight morning it was ever his lot to behold. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
There was enough pride and quiet admiration to fill Yankee Stadium, right there on either side of the fence in left field.
Were he to offer this defence in his memoirs, he might repel the attack that he was weak. Times, Sunday Times
We put wire fence in the middle of our beds, so tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, and other vine crops can grow vertically.
The Chiefs united and refused to give us the half of the small piece of land which had been purchased, on which to build our Mission House, and when we attempted to fence in the part they had left to us, they "tabooed" it, The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals
Is the English ivy covering the unattractive fence in my backyard really an environmental villain?
Germany still has no insider-dealing offence in its statute books.
An emerging contemporary example of radical change is in the business which to date has been concerned with the defence industries.
The researchers were steering the tiny sub along sheer, high cliffs, the ridges that fence in the central ridge valley.
But there's so much life tied to that compact space, so much to observe and absorb in those 200 yards, I often come away feeling as if I've taken a drive in the country rather than idled along a cable fence in the middle of a thriving metroplex.
And as we celebrate the release of endangered bilbies behind a feral proof fence in Queensland, we'll ask whether conservation fences are really the answer for at-risk animals or merely a psychological fix for us humans.
The defence industry also provides the country with sovereign capabilities such as nuclear submarines that are needed for national security. Times, Sunday Times
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The little boy picked up a stone and bunged it over the fence into the courtyard of his neighbour.
There's more trouble tonight for the embattled Canberra defence intelligence establishment.
I have an indelible memory of a dozen of them leaping a fence in turn as they withdrew from sight. Times, Sunday Times
The defence industry also provides the country with sovereign capabilities such as nuclear submarines that are needed for national security. Times, Sunday Times
But that's nothing when compared to a disabled kiddie seemingly being used as part of the defence in a criminal trial.
The noble art of self-defence in all its aesthetic glory will always draw polite applause from appreciative audiences. The Sun
Here they are reminded that it is an offence in Britain to possess or supply heroin, cocaine, dope etc - and then told in the very next sentence that half of young British adults have done these very things.
It can also be used to fence in pets or protect flower beds from damage by pets and wild vermin such as rabbits.
The combination, with the support of a goalkeeper like Dong Sik Yo, can demolish any defence in contemporary hockey.
Development undertaken without permission is not an offence in itself; but ignoring an enforcement notice is.
He plans to fence in about 100 acres of his ranch five miles north of town.
She would need to fence in the field if she was to keep a horse there.
The true difficulty for them lies in making out how the reasons which justify self-defence in their view of it, do not also justify the acceptance of a duel: how, if I may make another man's death a means to the preservation of my vital right, I may not as well make another man's risk of death and my own, which is all that a duel amounts to, also a _means_, none other being at hand, to the preserving of my no less vital right. Moral Philosophy
The Villagers only trailed 16-4 at the interval but paid the penalty for poor defence in the second half.
They are frequently of great importance both to the prosecution and to the defence in the conduct of the trial.
The noble art of self-defence in all its aesthetic glory will always draw polite applause from appreciative audiences. The Sun
We had the best defence in the Championship over 46 games. Times, Sunday Times
They break from defence into attack with alacrity.
The decision to purchase the corvettes was the result of a long process of consultation and transformation whereby defence in South ANC Daily News Briefing
Similar choices face our defence industry in areas such as armoured vehicles, surface ships and helicopters. Times, Sunday Times
It has become a totem of whether Britain is serious about defence in a dangerous world. Times, Sunday Times
The possession of all illegal drugs, not just cannabis, will no longer be a criminal offence in the country.
Put in a new post for a gate - known here as a 'strainer' because it takes the strain of either the weight of the gate or the tensioned fence in the other direction, or both. Tawny grammar
The government is trying to boost the ailing economy by converting the defence industry to civilian production.
There were three external walls, battlemented and turreted from space to space and at each angle, the second enclosure rising higher than the first, and being built so as to command the exterior defence in case it was won by the enemy; and being again, in the same manner, itself commanded by the third and innermost barrier. Quentin Durward
He met management and workers at Swan Hunter's and Vickers, two firms who depend on the defence industry for work.
All this against a club who had boasted the second-best defence in the Championship. Times, Sunday Times
The little boy picked up a stone and bunged it over the fence into the courtyard of his neighbour.
He plans to fence in about 100 acres of his ranch five miles north of town.
Currently it supplies the Ministry of Defence in Britain and the US Central Intelligence Agency.
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.
The protocol also demands that corruption should be made an extraditable offence in the quest to link arms with member states.
The company still plans to sell off Thorn Security and Electronics, which makes security and surveillance equipment for the defence industry.
As the election gets closer, he is going to have to prove his moderateness to appeal to on-the-fence independents.
He plans to fence in about 100 acres of his ranch five miles north of town.
A refence in that thread, if memory serves me, about how many stations and why they were chosen. Unthreaded #20 « Climate Audit
In England at least there were fond memories of the Barnacle's stalwart defence in saving the Lord's Test in 1953 to temper the criticism even if EW Swanton was typically splenetic in his damnation. Pakistan's Azhar joins Barnacle and Boycott as new kid with the block | Rob Bagchi
Harsh acts take away people's right of defence in an open court of law, a normal recourse in a democratic structure.
The District Court can impose fines of up to €1,900 for any single offence in this area.
It's that sad old bunch of ex-something-or-others who have leapt to her defence in recent days.
We would have our eyes upon that too, so to circumstantiate all our duties, as they may have least offence in them, and be exposed to least obloquy of men, 1 Pet. ii. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
The fence includes stiles, a bridle gate and kissing gates which are fully accessible to push-chairs and wheelchair users.
NOTE: If you have received a pardon under the Criminal Records Act (Canada) and it has not been revoked, you must disclose the pardoned offence in this PIF.
The possibility of using it as a bypass to the village was discussed with the Ministry of Defence in 1985.
I hopped on my skateboard and ollied up onto the sidewalk and skated towards the fence in front of the skate park.
It was an atypical error for a side that have boasted the most niggardly defence in the division. Times, Sunday Times
Britain's defence industry is too small to survive on contracts from the MoD alone, and is titchy in comparison with that in the United States.
Avionics forms an important part of the defence industry.
She put up a spirited defence in the final game.
The defence industry also provides the country with sovereign capabilities such as nuclear submarines that are needed for national security. Times, Sunday Times
Is it not the common law that a citizen is entitled to use self-defence in the case of wrongful arrest?
They already possess the most parsimonious defence in the division.
The captain wants to play Mills as defence in our next game.
It goes beyond merely shitty, hops the fence into atrocious, and strikes out for eyeball-bleedingly terrible. Dead Silence
British scepticism about further defence integration is one reason it has not happened. Times, Sunday Times
Daughter of Princess Anne, and tenth in line to the throne, Phillips would have prevented Funnell from taking the Grand Slam had she not knocked down a fence in the showjumping.
The ending of the Cold War has resulted in diminished interest in, and budgeting for, civil defence in the traditional sense as a response to military attack.
Hammond will say he will not allow the MoD to remove critical skills and capabilities that are irrecoverable … we will not carelessly throw away core competencies that may be essential to our defence in the future. Defence secretary to warn armed forces of more pain in coming years
Muriel Spark began to build the case for the defence in her ground-breaking study of 1951.
She issued an apology to her fans after a further drink-driving offence in 2014 and promised that she would recover. Times, Sunday Times
He went over the fence in one jump.
Is it not the common law that a citizen is entitled to use self-defence in the case of wrongful arrest?
Every irregularity, when detected, was termed as an ‘adjustment’ on account of expenses incurred for defence inspectors.
It has become a totem of whether Britain is serious about defence in a dangerous world. Times, Sunday Times
Though they're made with cheap material, the gardens are much loved and one home has even been referbed with a second story, a portch, a darling federation fence in gleaming white and a lovely earth-red tiled garden path. The Effect of Architecture on Home Living
Of course, he couldn't get into his house and he couldn't call a locksmith — who likely wouldn't open the door to someone's house to a unicorn anyway — so he took a running gallop and leapt over the chainlink fence into the backyard. Oh, Myth...
They target mainly defence industry executives and government employees, the report said. Times, Sunday Times
Birds perch on a fence in tropical Punta Raza, Mexico to dry their wings. Birds perch on a fence in tropical Punta Raza, Mexico to dry their wings. © Christina Stobbs, 2009
Each section was subdivided by the same sized fence into four subsections, three comprised of 13 hectares and one of 26 hectares.
The front half flew over the safety fence into the crowd and destroyed three seats at the speedway track in Poland. The Sun
Kasrils said he still "agonised" over his decision to lead a group of ANC marchers through a hole in the stadium fence in a bid to circumvent the security cordon preventing the crowd from entering Bisho. ANC Daily News Briefing
Their lines of curvature, and the kind of enclosures which they fence in; so again reproducing the construction of the Coral Reefs, which thus embay spaces of shallow water. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
He charged 80 metres down field leaving a stunned defence in his wake to plant the ball under the uprights.
Prosecutors fear that if they can only show he was acting suspiciously, the jury may be swayed by the defence into convicting him of a lesser offence, preventing a death sentence.
To the correct orthoepist, several persons on the stage give offence in the pronunciation of the pronoun possessive MY -- speaking it in all cases with the full open Y, as it would rhyme to _fly_, which should only be when it is put in contradistinction to _thy_ or _his_, or any other pronoun possessive: in all other cases it should be sounded like _me_. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810
No offence intended, I hope you understood this in the spirit it was submitted.
While climbing a precariously balanced ladder and looking over a fence into the neighbour's garden, the neighbour appeared and subjected me to a tirade of abuse. Times, Sunday Times
An eco-enthusiast in Pasadena, Calif., recently trademarked the phrase "urban homestead" and is now warning the authors and publishers cranking out urban-homesteading how-to books not to tread on the turf he has tried to fence in. Putting the Park in Park Avenue
Differential cryptanalysis was ultimately a mathematical technique just waiting to be rediscovered by someone outside the Triple Fence interested in sophisticated codes.
It was a superb team effort in turning defence into attack into a goal. Times, Sunday Times
Defence in terms of the Lesotho Defence Act. Lekanyane added that pending such confirmation, the court martial ordered that the accused should be detained in custody in the section of the maximum security prison in Maseru, which is designated as a military detention centre. ANC Daily News Briefing
And must not this conclusion be strengthened, when they hear ministers of talent and learning declare that the Bible does sanction slaveholding, and that it ought not to be made a disciplinable offence in churches? Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life
He points out that serious crime, indictable offences, fell by 21 per cent, from 102,484 offences to 81,274 offence in the five-year period.
The provisions of the act do not apply to state aids extended to agriculture, fishery or the defence industry.
Nor, if the effect of its dilatoriness is to put the defence in a position where the defence is not ready for the trial can the Crown seek an extension and show that it has acted with all due expedition.
Then one day, he noticed that a mare, a stallion and a foal had crossed the fence into the park.
She would need to fence in the field if she was to keep a horse there.
The company still plans to sell off Thorn Security and Electronics, which makes security and surveillance equipment for the defence industry.
Is it not the common law that a citizen is entitled to use self-defence in the case of wrongful arrest?
Even if the Democrats win the presidency, little will change as allAmericans are seen as "extreme right wing nutters" (no offence intendedmate) with little different in policy between Mr Bush or Mr Obama forinstance. Australian Writes About Boycott of U.S. Products There
A woman is standing by a fence in a garden.
Occurred at Jacobson Junior High, 3 wht male juv and 1 blk male juv, seen taking a weed eater from a shed at the old middle school and go over the fence into the ball field. Undefined
In Jacobite times, targes were the highlanders' main means of defence in battle.
• Costly virtual border fence in tatters: The U.S. is set to defund the troubled project. How many people sent back Census forms?
Over 12 miles of rope will be attached to 1,800 stakes to fence in spectators along with 900 crash barriers to ensure wild birds like the peahen and peacock are unharmed.
It has no great defence industries, no strategic significance.
The Italian, Austrian, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Norwegian and Danish governments insist on offsets equivalent to the full price of defence industry contracts.
In 1560 we read that Teigue O'Rourke was drowned as he was going across a lake to sleep in a crannoge; and even so late as the sixteenth century, crannoges were declared to be the universal system of defence in the north of Ireland. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Similar choices face our defence industry in areas such as armoured vehicles, surface ships and helicopters. Times, Sunday Times
We heard raucous laughter and audible thuds as people leapt the fence into the yard.
Yet they played the best fare on view, but found the Old Leighlin defence in no concessive mood; blocking several shots which could have, in cricket terms, called for a declaration long before the interval.
The government is trying to boost the ailing economy by converting the defence industry to civilian production.
He doesn't want a rock-solid defence in front of him. Times, Sunday Times
A small group of RAAF photo-interpreters was based in Saudi Arabia, together with a detachment from the Defence Intelligence Organisation.
Prof Schwellnus' research has shown that the foot is the first line of defence in cushioning the impact of landing.
This time around, they started positively enough, although the German champions looked reasonably assured in defence in the opening 20 minutes.
For a second time in the game Leigh showed how capable they were of springing from defence into attack.
They target mainly defence industry executives and government employees, the report said. Times, Sunday Times
Slave trading had been theoretically a capital offence in America since 1820, but no slaver had ever been condemned to death.
Espionage is a capital offence in this country.

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