Sentence examples for assembled to defend from inspiring English sources

An army of white-collar defense lawyers has been assembled to defend individuals.

Predictably, women's publications assembled to defend their icon, slapping proverbial palms like a white feminist tag team.

Explosions and gunfire continued to ring out from the compound, where a battery of Afghan security forces assembled to defend the lightly armed traffic police.

SEOUL, South Korea — Thousands of young Chinese who assembled to defend their country's troubled Olympic torch relay pushed through police lines here on Sunday, some of them hurling rocks, bottled water and plastic and steel pipes at protesters who were demanding better treatment for North Korean refugees in China.

Small groups of Australians managed to push through to The Cup where they were stopped by Ottoman troops who were hastily assembled to defend their regimental headquarters.

Phips' defeat was complete and disastrous; fortunately for the French, since food was lacking to feed the large force assembled to defend Quebec in case of a prolonged siege.

The rectory was home to Archbishop John Hughes, who assembled parishioners to defend against marauding anti-Catholic Nativists, and to John McCloskey, America's first cardinal, who received his red cap in a ceremony attended by the future president, Chester A. Arthur.

When lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups rushed to court to challenge the executive order, and U.S. Attorneys assembled lawyers to defend it, Yates could have sent federal attorneys into court, if only to go through the motions.

Buckner assembled 61 companies to defend Kentucky's neutrality.

Byzantine troops followed the Crusaders, attempting to police their behaviour, and further troops were assembled in Constantinople, ready to defend the capital against any acts of aggression.

WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union and one of the country's leading lawyers' groups, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said Thursday that they had assembled experienced teams of lawyers to defend some of the most notorious detainees at Guantánamo, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has said he was the chief planner of the Sept. 11 attacks.