Sentence examples for defence her from inspiring English sources

Her defence: her partner is based in Southampton and she is entitled to a family life.

Luol, meanwhile, was explaining to a young girl how to sharpen her defence, her studied cool melting as she absorbed every suggestion.

You knew it was all over for Deirdre when the purple-breasted bounder began his speech for the defence: "Her life has been nondescript, ordinary, not the stuff of dreams …" Not only was this blister an offence to the eyeball, he had obviously never watched Coronation Street.

It took Thatcher's own background and personality, her belief in traditional family values and strong defence, her suspicion of an overmighty Europe and instinctive affinity with the US, to give shape and meaning to what we now know as Thatcherism.

In Wilson's defence, her attorney argued "she felt she had a connection with Mr. Griffiths and wanted to be with him"—which seems like a pretty thin excuse for lying to someone for months.

Her defence said her trial was a mission to cover up police failings.

Livingston's Elise Christie is sporting a burst lip from a practice speed skating session ahead of her defence of her 1000m European championship title.

The ensuing anger with which they turn on Beatie, her self-defence, her halting, hesitant stumble upon fluency, the discovery of her own voice deliriously reaching high C as she uses her own words instead of Ronnie's all take up the last 15 minutes of the play.

Madonna has come to her own defence after her much-criticised tribute to Prince at the Billboard music awards on 22 May.

She launched a lengthy and impassioned defence of her actions in her Times Literary Supplement blog, but admitted: "I went to bed wanting to weep".

She was also a fine sportswoman - like her mother, she played defence for her football team.