Sentence examples for as defences for from inspiring English sources

By 38 AD, as a result of raids by the Xiongnu further to the west against the Wei River valley, orders were given for a series of walls to be constructed as defences for the Fen River, the southward course of the Yellow River, and the region of the former imperial capital, Chang'an.

Mr Cheney has managed to play influential roles in Washington for a quarter of a century most recently as defence secretary for Mr Bush's father and before that as number two in the Republican Party's hierarchy in the House without making too many enemies in his own party (both wings of which applauded this week's choice) or even among Democrats.

For example, the current president's father, Hafez al-Assad, reserved top senior posts for Sunnis like Mustafa Tlass (whose son, Brigadier General Manaf Tlass has recently defected to the rebels) who served as defence minister for more than three decades, and was instrumental in clearing the way for Bashar as president after the death of his father.

I served as defence secretary for three years.

Now, as Mr Santos sets off on a tour of Europe seeking political support and money to implement the hoped-for peace deal, the talks are facing ever-shriller opposition at home.That opposition is led by Álvaro Uribe, Colombia's president in 2002-10, whoMr Santososerveded as defence minister for three years.

How indeed could this gentle follower of Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophist theories, who rose to fame as defence lawyer for the Baader-Meinhof terrorists and other extreme-left militants in the 1960s and 1970s, be likened to Napoleon's repressive police chief?

But as the first woman to act as defence counsel for mafia clans – the original "male only" societies – her job has never been straightforward.

Secondary metabolites play a key role as defence chemicals for many plants, and so, their accumulation is often dependent on environmental factors.

That is a change: talks with the Poles have dragged on for years, thanks to elaborate Polish demands for things such as extra missile defences for their own country.

The resilient individuals report, written by commissioner Tim Wilson, noted that most of the legal discrimination faced by the LGBTI community – such as age of sexual consent and allowing homosexual advances as a defence for homicide and manslaughter – was state-based.

As a defence for Niersbach and co, it only throws up new questions.