Sentence examples for admirable defence from inspiring English sources

His book is a passionate and admirable defence of coach-party musical theatre, large-print historical fiction, wedding reception rock, Orc sagas, To the Manor Born, Arnold Bennett, Billy Bunter and Billy Elliot.

Ever since the Democrats began flirting with protectionism, spreading myths about the number of jobs being outsourced abroad (see article), Mr Bush has been slow to defend free trade, flip-flopping between concern about outsourcing and an admirable defence of it.

Ardwick pulled one back, but Small Heath's "admirable defence" held out "by watchfulness and combination" for a gratifying result for the supporters.

Morrisfinally received the man of the match award he deserves for two well-taken tries and a series of other breaks that would have brought him a hat-trick without Wigan's admirable desperation on defence.

If it were, we would see the NDP conceding most power to the Conservatives or the Bloc Quebecois, who were anti-niqab, instead of to the Liberals, who were admirable in their defence of Canadian women's rights to wear whatever the heck they want.

That is the sign of a good team and their defence was admirable.

Ford levelled the scores three minutes later but Exeter were showing an admirable willingness to stretch Bath's defence with ball in hand.

Even granting Michael Jamison and Sam Rowe's competent if unspectacular work shutting down tall forwards, Sam Docherty's development as a rebounding defender and Zach Tuohy's admirable guts-over-talent success, Carlton's defence was abysmal.

It'll be interesting to see if he can stretch the Bilbao defence as well as doing his admirable defensive work.

But while those qualities are admirable and the minimum requirement, the frailty in defence, with Mauricio Pellegrino a liability, and the absence of incisive quality farther forward will be more worrying to Liverpool fans.

Making their World Cup debut, they showed admirable composure in possession and were mostly solid in defence, but Safet Susic's men did not quite possess enough of a cutting edge to capitalise on their impressive display.