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Discover LudwigThe phrase "adequately defend" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the ability to provide sufficient justification or support for a position, argument, or action.
Example: "In order to win the case, the lawyer must adequately defend her client's actions against the charges."
Alternatives: "sufficiently justify" or "properly support".
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I am of the opinion that the conclusion reached by the medical experts implies that, in the way the question was formulated, the Defendant Hess cannot adequately defend himself on account of this mental defect, namely, amnesia.
Equally important, the lawyer who is appointed has to have the resources available to adequately defend the case".
One question that must asked in the weeks ahead is: What happens to the contractors who did not adequately defend their secrets?
A change in the law is necessary, government officials say, because individual soldiers abroad are barred from carrying guns, and can't adequately defend themselves.
Apparently not satisfied that the Justice Department will adequately defend the local law, the District of Columbia's lawyers have asked to intervene in the case.
As reports poured out of Baghdad about the September shootings by several Blackwater guards, the company felt it could not adequately defend itself.
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The appeals court agreed with the defense argument that his strokes and heart problems had caused mild dementia, a condition that Chilean law says impedes a defendant from adequately defending himself.
In my view this question is answered by the experts to the effect that the defendant is incapable of adequately defending himself, of rejecting the testimony of a witness and of comprehending evidence submitted.
"All communities at risk of flooding must be adequately defended.
In this provocative analysis Kagan maintains that despite the intuitive appeal of these views, they cannot be adequately defended.
The premise underlying the entire book is that conscious moral thinking can only be utilitarian, but this is nowhere adequately defended.
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