Sentence examples for but rather defending from inspiring English sources

Yoshihama and Dabby (2015) stated that in violence against male partner, females commonly weren't the primary aggressors, but rather defending themselves and/or their children, or using revengeful violence.

A spokesman maintained they were not defending slavery, but rather "defending the South's right to secede, the soldiers' right to defend their homes, and the right to self-government".

The right of exit suggests that the fairness of the system does not generate an obligation to participate, but rather defends the system against those who would argue that it is unfair to some of the participants over others.

You know, it's really easy really easy to tease these people, but I'd rather defend them.

I would have rather defended it".

"I said, 'Too bad, you should have left it up.' I would have rather defended it".

Carl Froch says he would rather defend his shiny new World Boxing Council super-middlweight title against Bernard Hopkins than the International Boxing Federation champion Lucian Bute.

And despite the fact I found the Sunday's Mirror's excerpts of his emails both pathetic and almost poignantly unfunny – hardly a surprise – I rather defend his right to indulge in the level of twattishness they revealed.

The odd thing about Kurt Waldheim is not his war file or the Nazi clubs he joined as a student but the fact that for forty years he dressed up in patriot's clothes, invented a past for decoration, and seduced Austria, and now Austria would rather defend those inventions than discuss its own interest in maintaining them.

In part two, I talk to him about his time as a Serbian paramilitary General, why owning a football team is like having a nagging wife, and how he'd rather defend Adolf Hitler than Tony Blair in court.

Plus, on a human level, it's clear that Hollywood's decision makers would rather defend the choices they've been making than concede that their past creative defaults were racially problematic.