Sentence examples for being a defending from inspiring English sources
He knows about the pressures of being a defending champion, having won gold at the World Championships himself back in 2003.
In the 100m Justin Gatlin is one of 11 athletes – including the decathlon world record holder Ashton Eaton and 200m Olympic champion Allyson Felix – who have a bye by virtue of either being a defending world champion or a reigning Diamond League champion.
The pressure of being a defending Olympic champion in a "home" Games is accompanied by a certain kind of confidence.
It is tough enough being a defending Paralympic champion, but for Britain's 21-year-old Sam Hynd his biggest rival for gold is someone he knows very well - his 17-year-old younger brother Ollie.
She was a defending champion and, in fact, has lost only two games to women in the past eight years".
"That's a bureaucracy defending itself".
It was a manager defending his team.
The whole city was a heavily defended fortress.
This is a view defended by Brennan and Noggle Brennann and Noggle 1997).
According to ecological theory, social work is a complex defended turf in the system of professions.
What is more complicated is defending a client, for whom you feel sympathy".
