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The phrase "able to defend their" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capability to protect or support something, often in a legal, physical, or argumentative context.
Example: "The lawyer argued that the defendant was able to defend their actions based on the evidence presented."
Alternatives: "capable of defending their" or "qualified to defend their".
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"They will not be able to defend their rights".
Trademark holders want to be able to defend their brands online.
What we see were not merely voters, but citizens able to defend their rights.
People are expected to be able to defend their proposals with data or logic.
Notwithstanding their declaration of neutrality (1938), the Baltic-pact members were not able to defend their independent status.
If poor families in Indonesia are also to benefit, small farmers should be able to defend their own interests.
Justice is not a luxury, and everyone should be able to defend their rights through the legal system".
They have not been able to convince markets that they were going to be able to defend their inflation targets.
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The strategy worked: the more their opponents criticized their project, the more Pan and Zhang were able to defend and explain their ideas, and the more they talked to the press the more persuasive they seemed.
She was heartily cheered when she declared there should be "a right to reasonable self-defence" and that "people should be able to defend themselves and their property".
Many gentlemen's sons became members of the Inns, though not necessarily lawyers: they needed the rudiments of law to be able to defend and extend their estates.
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