How To Use Fence 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.
Public Prosecutor told the court that the offences of threatening and insulting a woman's modesty are bailable, so there is no need to grant anticipatory bail.
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.

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More serious motoring offences such as uninsured driving would carry a £10 surcharge.
Minister for Defence Robert Hill talks with an Australian Army captain and warrant officer at a Middle East base.
Green styles this sequence like the opening credits of a 1970s cop show, freeze-framing on Chris as he leaps over a fence and zooming the titles across the screen.
He fenced and boxed, but also played the cello, drew and had a deep appreciation of painting. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
Defence lawyers routinely accuse victims who failed to make 'vigorous enough' protests, as in fact having consented.
A log cabin, and, occasionally, a stable and corn-crib, and a field of a dozen acres, the timber girdled or "deadened," and fenced, are enough for his occupancy. The Frontier in American History
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
So long as the defendant does not communicate his intention, he commits no offence.
If the borsholder could not find such a number to answer for their innocence, the decennary was compelled by fine to make satisfaction to the king, according to the degree of the offence. [ The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John
Our reaction to a tickling sensation may have arisen from a defence against creepy-crawlies. Times, Sunday Times
He will mention the relevant laws that fence out undesirable immigrants.
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.
Roughly a third of the way up the fence is a guard rail - again in orange - which provides a sighting line for the jockeys. Times, Sunday Times
His offences came to light in January when the club's chairman telephoned him to ask why a £4,000 bill for printing the yearbook had not been paid.
Another of his campaigns is aimed at removing fences and railings from London's parks. Times, Sunday Times
She could walk without ever slipping on railroad tracks, across the tops offences, on swaying tree branches.
He suggested that tangling fishing gear should be made a criminal offence.
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.
Over hedge and fence they race, hounds in the lead, redcoats and hangers-on following on horseback.
While I am sharply critical of American unilateralism and realpolitik masquerading as the defence of liberty, at times I find our own moralizing irritating.
MPs said that the public had a right to know the identities of those convicted of the most serious offences. Times, Sunday Times
The maximum penalty for running grog into a restricted area is $1000 or six months for a first offence, and $2000 or 12 months for a second, plus forfeiture of the vehicle or aircraft.
Taken from their families and forced to live in "white" orphanages, three mixed-race aborigine children escape, traveling 1500 miles back home, using the title fence as their guide. Cinematical
Liz dropped her defences and began to relax.
I also agree that there's an incredible amount of camaraderie among fencers.
Early ideas had envisaged a mobile linear defence. NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
She was arrested and charged with treason, a capital offence, but made no attempt to deny her actions. Times, Sunday Times
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If you are in a high-risk area with no such defences planned, your insurer may stop your cover. Times, Sunday Times
The horse cleared the fence with inches to spare.
There was a loud clapping from the boys who were perched on the rail fence, but some of the girls were crying. Rainbow Valley
He said he was jailed in January for shoplifting offences and stayed off drugs when he was released.
She narrowly missed out on gold to Pippa Funnell after knocking down a fence in the showjumping.
The car turned on the wet road and slipped into the fence.
We fenced in the garden to keep the sheep out.
Garden walls and fences may offer protection from cold, but the wind can push forward any shrubs growing against them. Times, Sunday Times
You may teach him to fence, and to dance, and to elocute till he is black in the face; you will never teach him to play "Othello" unless he is an actor. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
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.
Chose a clear day to mend a broken fence covered in a climber, as it will be a time-consuming job to untie and untangle the plant.
Presently I saw a man leaning on a two-strand barbed-wire fence, the wires fixed not to posts but to crooked tree limbs stuck in the ground.
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.
However much we can all appreciate the arguments in favour of renting, most of us still hanker after the long-term idyll of bricks, mortar and a white picket fence. Are we better off renting?
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
They also say that the offences he is accused of are not crimes in England. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Well, it would be in a whole new jurisprudence so far as the prosecution of Commonwealth offences were concerned in this country.
Otherwise, knotholers, who named their vantage point after the knotholes in old wooden outfield fences through which fans could sneak peeks, enforce their own unwritten code of conduct. Watching Baseball Through 'Knothole' Isn't Naughty When Giants Play
He is due to appear before magistrates in connection with a public order offence.
The magistrates agreed to the defence counsel's application for the defendants' costs to be taxed and paid out of central funds.
The dog made a leap over the fence.
Mr Foster maintained his composure: If acceptable manners were a paddock, Mademoiselle Marguerite had not yet jumped the fence.
The problem is White to play and mate in two moves against any Black defence.
The back garden is partially railed and partially fenced and has a block constructed shed.
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.
Continuing, he charged the general with inciting his employés to depredate on the fences and fields. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886
Why did the defence barrister do it that way? Times, Sunday Times
“Exremism in dee fence auf offentide Bibliothik ist nicht sehr gut.” Think Progress » Vandals hit at least five Dem offices nationwide, threaten to ‘assassinate’ children of pro-reform lawmakers.
By putting up the fence, are you blocking out the view of a wonderful tree in a neighbouring plot, or perhaps a church spire in the distance? Times, Sunday Times
They belong to a secret resistance army that is the nation's last defence. Times, Sunday Times
A rabbit ran along the fence and darted through a gap.
The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun. The Redemption of David Corson
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
He is big and bold at his fences and that will get him far. The Sun
It has also pushed up muggings and violent crime offences by 43% since its inception.
Dad, you need a bath. No offence.
The prosecution lawyer cross-examined the defence witness.
A cat was walking along the top of the fence.
Duncan knows so little about the antiques game that he doesn't even suss out alternative routes, different fences. THE TARTAN RINGERS
A chain-link fence, topped with razor wire, enclosed the complex, which consisted of a large barnlike structure adjacent to a smaller adobe residence. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment
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.
Amnesty is a pardon for an offence. Times, Sunday Times
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
The court heard that he still maintained his innocence over the offences which were years old.
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
A low fence of split bamboo marked off an inside area the width of a boxing ring and twice as long.
They seemed to me to be rudimental, burrowing men, still standing on their defence, awaiting their transformation. Walden
The defence budget was still growing.
It will be a criminal offence to hold yourself out as a Chinese medical practitioner or a herbal dispenser of Chinese medicines, and a range of other appellations, if in fact one has not been registered by the board.
The president asks him again, how so high fence up ah?
He is due to appear before magistrates in connection with a public order offence.
The game was stuck in the middle of the pitch for long periods as both teams cancelled each other out and the referee constantly whistled for minor offences stopping either side gaining momentum.
It will either help my chesty cough or make me whinny and jump fences.
Larkham was in his element in his country's victory over Romania as he constantly probed for breaks against a brittle defence.
In the past, noble lords and rich men - when they could get a licence from the Crown - built themselves a living larder in the shape of a deer park with high fences and walls.
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
The council has announced its intention to crack down on parking offences.
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.
The biggest laugh is that after all this tooing and frowing, paperwork, negotiation and time spent the offence still has to be recorded and then closed UNDETECTED as no CJ disposal is recorded. Complete Utter Shambles « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
He had squeezed through a gap in the fence.
He unfurled the blanket insulation over the concertina wire and scrambled over the fence as a Doberman streaked toward him, snarling. THE KILL CLAUSE
Media teams were kept well back behind fences and police guards. The Sun
And there just behind us, over the fence outside the park, a steady flow of modern red London buses plied their scheduled routes up the Seven Sisters Road.
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
We are sorry if this suggestion caused any offence. Times, Sunday Times
So far as the essence of justice is concerned, there is no difference between one of the cases of punishment which you called barbarous, and one in which the penalty follows the offence within the hour. Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
In the ensuing litigation, this was portrayed as blackmail - a serious offence that has a maximum prison term of 14 years.
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.
The plant climbs by means of tendrils and is best grown in a composted soil supported by a fence or trellis.
We crashed into the airport 's perimeter fence and had to have first aid for cuts and bruises. Times, Sunday Times
We crashed into the airport 's perimeter fence and had to have first aid for cuts and bruises. Times, Sunday Times
a "nester," or "truck farmer," who was likely to fence in the river somewhere and homestead some land. The Eagle's Heart
Each participating State will provide for its legislative approval of defence expenditures.
The decision whether to treat an offence as summary or indictable is made by the Crown prosecutor after taking into account all the circumstances of the case.
So now, from the very moment that someone picks up a foil to learn how to fence they can start developing the same skills that are associated with top level fencing performance.
He put up a stout defence in court.
The offence carries a maximum jail term of six months. The Sun
But gongs were awarded for ‘services to the defence industries’.
I went to take my towel off the clothes line in the backyard and found him sitting on top of the fence telling Janet about what happened.
From the beginning, professions mobilised themselves in their defence against quacks and impostors through associations or institutes.
This streaker has committed at least two arrestable offences by showing himself in public and running onto the pitch.
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
No fence against (an) ill fortune.
There are defences of meat-eating - some of them good. Times, Sunday Times
Wilbur, a behemoth boar who can't stand fences - and hasn't met one that could stop him - is spared from the breakfast plate for sentimental reasons.
They left the _furca_ and the _patibulum_, the axe and the rods, to great offenders: for these minor and (if I may so term them) extra-moral offences _the bent thumb_ was considered as a sufficient sign of disapprobation, -- _vertere pollicem_; as _the pressed thumb, premere pollicem_, was a mark of approving. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
Readers and other members of the public, sensing a clear impulse to beat down an unfavourable report, must have suspected some truth was giving offence.
Drugs include any intoxicant other than alcohol therefore even solvent abuse and driving may be covered by this offence.
They got in before our security guard came on duty, but I am now electrifying the fence and getting 24-hour protection.
They offer an up-close view of a life-size, red-blue-and-white clad young woman in an overgrown ravine before a chain-link fence.
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.
It could even become a sackable offence. The Sun
And Cymbeline - bless her heart - is down by the fence, still busy making tea for the workers.
What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he is yours. Othello
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
The King's religious policies, strictly applied by Archbishop Laud, gave offence to the Puritan merchants and artisans.
Hickock, who was a genuinely skilled shot, drew, took careful aim (some versions have him using a fencepost as a rest), and drilled Tutt through the heart. David E.
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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Universal jurisdiction entitles a state to prosecute an offence even in the absence of any connection based on nationality, territory, or the protective principle.
The thieves had scaled two fences and dragged the pup out of her locked kennel and lifted her over the walls, leaving two less valuable dogs behind.
Dolly has discovered that the little West Highland puppy next door is willing to exchange cautious sniffs and snuffles under the fence and I think she's quite taken with the little mite.
Plant prickly hedges such as pyracantha, holly or hawthorn to deter thieves and add sturdy trellis to fence panels to make fences more difficult to climb over. IcNewcastle
On surrendering, the paramilitaries had admitted only to the illegal possession of arms and to having agreed to commit an offence.
Moreover, such a requirement would discourage prosecutions for the aggravated offence and would exclude private prosecutions.
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.
Huts, fences and palisades are often fashioned from saplings and shoots, and basketry is thus commingled with comforting notions of home, security and comfort.
He repaired the fence he had broken and made his peace with the neighbor on whose property it stood.
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.
Mark Sanford continues his campaign to prove that he is as dumb as a fencepost. Short Takes
The first task was to fence the wood to exclude sheep.
When an offence deserves a lesser sentence, let that sentence also be passed in open court.
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
About every third property boasted a brand-new chain link fence, erected to corral Cod knows what kind of beast.
Their strength in defence counterbalances our strength in attack.
So he drave out to Miriam, who ran at him with the best of her skill and charged him with the goodliness of her cleverness and her courage and her cunning in fence and cavalarice, crying to him, “O accursed, O enemy of Allah and the Moslems, I will assuredly send thee after thy brothers and woeful is the abiding-place of the Miscreants!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Another on the fence matter there is some kind of simpatico working between Donovan and Buddle, between the MLS assist leader and the MLS goal scoring leader Archive 2010-05-01
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.
Weeds also can complete the circuit when they touch the wires, sometimes shorting out the fence so it can't shock anything.
Privilege determined by birth is an offence to any modern sense of justice.
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.
With a little shrubbery or plants, such fences can provide very attractive barriers along property lines.
I doubt Cameron will want to rile up all the MPs who agree with Duncan - if not the way he expressed it - by deeming this a sackable offence. The Tory grassroots deliver their verdict on Alan Duncan
In the face of such an onslaught, the Germans, military as well as civilians, were, by and large, defenceless.
There is no fence to separate it from the nearby kampung, and no proper external lighting.
Two- and three-rail fences are nice landscape separators, while the taller four- and five-rail versions make a stout fence for animals.
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
Yesterday he admitted four driving offences, criminal damage and failing to provide a breath test sample to officers. The Sun
While many people may like to have a few beers before mowing the lawn on a fine Sunday morning, operating a riding mower while impaired is an offence under section 253 of the Criminal Code of Canada. Man Busted for Impaired Operation of a Riding Mower : Law is Cool
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
It shall be no offence for you to divorce your wives before the marriage is consummated or the dowry is settled.
Merseyside police received reports of two alleged offences in moving vehicles but the drivers were not traced. Times, Sunday Times
Although prostitution itself is not an offence, soliciting and pimping are illegal.
some who had been on the fence came out in favor of the plan
No offence ') is a miniature comic masterpiece. Times, Sunday Times
He was encouraged to plead guilty to the lesser offence.

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