Sentence examples for a defence for from inspiring English sources

Hulse showed that Jordan and Gamble were involved in the same London circle of theatre musicians and composers for many years, culminating in Jordan's preface for Gamble's A Defence for Musick published in 1659.

This is a defence for the future".

But nevertheless his popularity was a defence for him.

What a defence for the President of the United States.

Liam Fay: When did youth become a defence for violent crime?

Still, I'd like to submit a defence for tepid, sensible, utterly uninspiring politics.

Is "system malfunction" a justifiable defence for a robotic fighter plane that contravenes the Geneva Convention and mistakenly fires on innocent civilians?

That's a defence chance for Japan!

So it might have been a defence mechanism for him.

But a Trust may have a defence if, for example, it has staff shortages.

And in April Cerberus bought DynCorp, a defence contractor, for $1.5 billion.