Sentence examples for classic defence from inspiring English sources

"The Buckie made me do it," has become the classic defence in Glaswegian assault trials.

A blind poet and author of the classic defence of press freedom in the English language, Areopagitica.

This is the classic defence, invoked not just by chick-lit authors but magazine editors, luxury goods advertisers, reality TV producers and so on.

About a dozen blue chip stocks managed to buck yesterday's weak market trend and with the exception of Reuters all of them were classic defence stocks.

John Stuart Mill, in his classic defence of liberty, argued that each individual is the best judge and guardian of his or her own interests.

Suggested Readings: Perrin (1990) is an English translation of his classic defence of atomism written in 1913.

Essentially, where young philosophers were previously rewarded for being able to think for themselves and question the role of government, the new course can only be passed by students who can regurgitate classic defences of the existence and perfection of God.

In his classic In Defence of Politics, Crick championed the political system as the only tested alternative to government by coercion.

Implicit in that sentence is a classic theodicy defence: if we are to live free lives on a globe with its own laws, we cannot expect God to fiddle around with those laws whenever we would like.

Finally, via Radio 5 Live, there was an apology of sorts: with Whelan first using the classic 70s defence, "thousands of my friends are Jews", and then the much-loved modern non-apology: "Sorry if it's causing offence to anybody".

"This is not a classic self-defence matter".