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"could be defended" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when making a statement that could potentially be rejected or challenged by another person or group. For example: "The decision to raise taxes in the city could be defended on the grounds that it enabled essential public services to be funded."
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A broad range of earnings estimates could be defended as reasonable.
That could be defended a little tenuously in the name of clean breaks and strong governments.
Still, his taking part could be defended as an act of canny political outreach.
"I do not know how those offensive images could be defended," one said.
The main Roman army went into camp because the tight pass could be defended by a relatively small force.
Mr. Blair's advisers drafted a paper on a notional deal that could be defended in the British Parliament.
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One theory, as Jon Leyne explained on the BBC News live blog devoted to the war's endgame, is that the guards around the hotel could be defending "a high-value target," somewhere in the building.
As you correctly state, it is true that the symbiont could be defending the host against parasites (we hypothesize this role for some of the toxin-related proteins beginning in the Discussion section under the title "Are some of the toxins used for protection against eukaryotic parasites?").
After 15 Qe3, the b4 pawn could not be defended.
The country could not be defended by so loose a cannon.
"Dungeons and Dragons could only be defended by someone called Wayne," says Tom Adam.
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