Sentence examples for assigned to defend from inspiring English sources

Ms. Van Susteren said she was assigned to defend "the distinguished, honorable and lawful antiques dealer".

Marbury was assigned to defend the Lakers' Kobe Bryant, who is a year younger than Marbury.

The guards were assigned to defend the construction work on the separation barrier Israel is building there.

Uniformed lawyers now assigned to defend Guantánamo detainees have become among the most forceful critics of the Pentagon's own system.

She said the officers would be assigned to defend more than 14,000 potential targets and 550 people.

Last October was when Marine Brigadier General John Baker, who headed the Military Commissions Defense Organization, allowed three civilian lawyers assigned to defend Nashiri to quit.

The exact number of warplanes assigned to defending American territory, and the bases where they remain on alert, are classified.

The four include at least one lawyer the court has assigned to help defend the legal interests of the Qaddafi son, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, who was detained by fighters in November.

In one murder case, a man named Glenn Ford was randomly assigned to be defended by an oil and gas attorney and a slip-and-fall insurance attorney.

Settling in San Francisco, he entered a law firm that focused on waterfront labor matters and that assigned him to defend Mr. Bridges in a free-speech case.

At one point after a hot shooting streak, the Bulls assigned Michael Jordan to defend Recasner and the Bulls then stopped the comeback.