Sentence examples for apparent defence from inspiring English sources

Some saw her apparent defence against foreign invaders as a coded pitch on a wider front.

The comment led on to an apparent defence of gun ownership for the purposes of sport or hunting.

The FBI had investigated postings on the social website Scribd in which a writer describing himself as Nidal Hasan made a case in apparent defence of suicide bombers.

One leading Ukip figure, speaking anonymously, told the Guardian that party members had been "genuinely appalled" at the apparent defence of Trump's comments.

In an apparent defence of Mr Hollande's character, Ms Trierweiler reportedly spoke to a radio journalist earlier on Thursday to explain that he had been told to stay away from the hospital by doctors.

They are more or less bound to say that the late Plato takes the Parmenides' critique of the theory of Forms to be cogent, or at least impressive; that the Sophist's theory of "the five greatest kinds" (Sophist 254b-258e) is not a development of the theory of Forms; and that the Timaeus was written before the Parmenides, because of the Timaeus' apparent defence of theses from the theory of Forms.

During the course of the review it has become apparent that the Defence Secretary provided or asked his office to provide some diary details to Adam Werritty, in connection with visits where Mr Werritty was to be present.

City's accuracy and pace on attack, coupled with their composure in defence, was apparent right from the first whistle.

WHAT explains the apparent abduction of a defence witness, just before he was to testify at Bangladesh's International War Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka?

This is only partly about traditional news organisations fighting to preserve investigative journalism – they are concerned by an apparent weakening of the defence of "responsible journalism" that, in translation to legislation, seems likely to generate a whole new series of tests.

Mr Sands warned that the Prime Minister would struggle to justify UK support for US-led air strikes on Islamist extremists in Syria on three grounds: no authorisation from the United Nations Security Council; no apparent evidence of self-defence; and little precedent for launching any attack on "humanitarian grounds".