Sentence examples for carefully defended from inspiring English sources

Their rights were carefully defended by Aztec law, and they were not slaves but more like indentured servants.

But it can also transform the individual into a kind of walled fortress, carefully defended from everyone else.

They will understandably be more curious about the poems Eliot wrote for his second wife Valerie Eliot, with whom he spent what seems to have been a happy old age, and who as executor of his estate carefully defended Eliot's privacy, for example forbidding Peter Ackroyd to quote Eliot's poems in the first serious biography of the poet.

Certain pieces seem to me simply too carefully defended, or disfigured by scar-tissue, to be worth puzzling over, but the best of those collected here find fresh and intriguing ways of probing the fault-lines that have shaped the golden age of Ulster poetry.

+0.35% Capital Economics says Yellen played the 'continuity card' At her Senate nomination hearing today, the current Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen carefully defended the Fed's policy and regulatory actions over the past few years, suggesting that her approach will not differ much when she takes over as Chair from Ben Bernanke early next year.

Strauss carefully defended Ajmal's first five balls before aiming an extravagant pull at the sixth and seeing his leg stump pegged back.

Bell carefully defends a maiden.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton mixed presidential gravitas and familiar talking points in the second and final debate of her re-election race yesterday, assertively challenging Bush administration policy on Iraq, Iran, and North Korea while carefully defending her own record on abortion rights.

John initially adopted a defensive posture similar to that of 1199: avoiding open battle and carefully defending his key castles.

But the swingeing costs awards now arising are forcing newspapers to think carefully about defending any libel action.

She said: "Trump's sexist and derogatory comments have unequivocally proven he is totally unfit to be president of the United States, and Nigel Farage should think very carefully about defending him".