Sentence examples for defence principles from inspiring English sources

One of their defence principles is the production of chemical compounds, which may be harmful or distasteful to potential herbivores.

The whipping up of hatred is part of the normal course of wars; and if the bill were part of a principled attempt to keep Britain out of any war between America and Islam, it would have a defence in principle.

Their defence of basic principles played to our myth of Scandinavia as a land filled with rational liberals, better than and purer than the rest of fallen humanity.

In the cases of both Johnson and Tyson, the press demonised the fighters and, in defence of the principles of pugilism, called for them to be banned from boxing.

SOME old men keep in a half-forgotten file their medal, inscribed with bureaucratic precision: "For service in defence of the principles of the charter of the United Nations".

The human rights revolution," he adds, "has made our current crop of judges over-sensitive to privacy claims and less than valiant in defence of the principles of open justice".

Allen stated his innocence, and that he regretted the death of Sergeant Brett, but that he was prepared to "die proudly and triumphantly in defence of republican principles and the liberty of an oppressed and enslaved people".

Roux was more a laboratory man than a philosopher, so the main defence of the principles of mechanism, that all living processes "can be unequivocally explained in physicochemical terms" [quoted in [ 41], p.430] fell to Jacques Loeb [ 42].

While giving a robust defence of the principle of comprehensive schooling, the watchdog's chief inspector of schools also lambasted the "baleful legacies" of the past.

It was in defence of this principle – a crucial safeguard against mob-rule –that my father acted and argued during his support of Hindley's case.

This is the time to spring to action in defence out of principle (and even if they don't personally like their sacked editors).