Sentence examples for convincing defense from inspiring English sources

(Adam Gopnik has offered a spirited and, I think, convincing defense of Rex's verbosity — that he diverts attention and pressure from his team by absorbing it himself — but it all starts to be a bit much).

Along these same lines, Glassner makes a convincing defense of the fast-food industry.

In doing so, he said, Berlin was undermining attempts by Europe to become a convincing defense player.

It was an accurate reading of the data, and I remember finding it a convincing defense of Effexor's safety.

But Bernard Murphy, general manager of the hotel and golf course Gleneagles in Perthshire, Scotland, offers a convincing defense of playing under the country's sometimes inhospitable skies.

It is the most beautiful and convincing defense of man's religious instincts ever to flow from a modern pen — and that, apparently, was the problem.

Certainly, post-ADAAA legal developments have convinced defense attorneys to rethink their advice to employers regarding weight in the workplace.

His comments, however, were a well-rehearsed if less-than-convincing defense of his own actions leading up to the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

The military has until Jan . 1 2016, to open all combat positions to women — or convince the defense secretary of the rationale for exempting some units from gender integration.

Perhaps the most stirring part of his testimony came when Hicks recounted how he had convinced a defense attaché to get a Libyan C-130 transport aircraft with four American special forces to fly to Benghazi.

The sweeping new rules at the Pentagon, ordered by outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta after a year of consultations with senior military officers, require the military services to expand all positions to women -- or convince the defense secretary why those jobs should remain exclusively male.