Sentence examples for become a defender from inspiring English sources
The committee has become a defender of the politically unpopular takeover.
He has become a defender of NASA's recent, and wrongheaded, decision to cancel the next servicing mission, thereby sentencing Hubble to a slow death.
Hugo Black, a KKK member and US senator, gave fiery anti-Catholic speeches before going on to become a defender of civil liberties on the supreme court bench.
In recent years, the European Commission has become a defender of fair play in computing and communications, even as regulatory bodies with far more experience — notably those in the United States — have grown squeamish about using antitrust law to pry concessions from some of the world's most dynamic companies.
I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case the search for what remains valuable focusses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.
As a result, the teachers union has become a defender of local control, arguing that school districts are the best gatekeepers of charter schools and that they need more power to make decisions, not less.
Jones said he became a defender out of necessity, to earn playing time from Coach Rick Carlisle, who succeeded Thomas in Indiana.
As the books became popular beyond imagining — as news reports credited them for a rebirth of reading among kids, even as critics attacked them as poorly written and simplistic — I also became a defender.
That raises a question: How is it that Mr. Obama the candidate understood the need for economic reform while Mr. Obama the president became a defender of the status quo in many unexpected ways?
In this production, created by Salvador Távora, the heroine of Prosper Mérimée's novel and Georges Bizet's opera becomes a defender of exploited cigarette factory workers and an opponent of military tyranny.
