Sentence examples for a defending position from inspiring English sources

The informants were provoked by the word 'abuse' in AHC, and prone to take a defending position against it.

"Both sides' arguments have a ring of conviction but although Essex and his partisans seem to have been genuine in their belief that they had assaulted and captured a defended position, the facts suggest that the Royalist version was closer to the truth.

In the Maghara Hills in October 1916 a strongly defended position was attacked by an Allied force based on the Suez Canal.

The volcanic Castle Rock offers a naturally defended position, with sheer cliffs to north and south, and a steep ascent from the west.

The two Afghans in the tower — a soldier and a civilian teacher — were in an easily defended position.

The 600 troops of the brigade followed ambiguous orders to charge a heavily defended position though they knew they had little chance of survival.

After some difficulty, the U.S. succeeded in taking Mount Austen, in the process reducing a strongly defended position called the Gifu, as well as the Galloping Horse and the Sea Horse.

You know, "The coalition defends position A, Opposing Force attacks it".

By the late summer of 1944, German forces in Italy had withdrawn toward the Gothic Line, a chain of defended positions stretching across the Italian peninsula.

Once the legal mechanism(s) for achieving law reform have been settled upon, designers of any permissive regime must take and defend positions on a set of core elements.

Yet David Cameron is not alone in finding himself in a corner, defending a position he cannot retreat from.