Sentence examples for defence rather from inspiring English sources

The truth is that this tournament has been a triumph for defence rather than attack.

48 min: Canizo the Paraguay skipper tries to run the ball out of defence rather than hacking it clear.

After Manchester United's surprise £26m bid for Cesc Fabregas yesterday it seems that David Moyes may turn his attention to his defence rather than his attack.

Soaring from a wooded hill and commanding sweeping views of the Bristol Channel, Dunster Castle was, naturally enough, built with defence rather than the environment in mind.

If, statistically, it looked a minimalist triumph, based on defence rather than possession, the champions played with a precision honed on the training field and were supremely conditioned.

This win – after five straight defeats – was welcome and an important one, too, but based on a markedly improved defence rather than any great attacking invention.

"It is going to be attack-defence, attack-defence rather than attack-versus-defence, which it has been," he said.

But a month of indiscriminate brutality in which 1,875 Palestinians and 67 Israelis have been killed is still presented, grotesquely, as a war of Israeli self-defence – rather than as a decades-long confrontation between occupier and occupied, in which western governments stand resolutely on the side of the occupier.

Allowing some areas to flood, usually farmland, has been a way of managing flooding for centuries, and flood defence experts are arguing for more use of such natural defences rather than simply trying to build walls to keep water out.

Many of the organisations at the meeting are concerned the UK focuses too heavily on the trade-off between the cost and benefits of building defences rather than using the level of protection required by communities as a starting point.

It must also invest in maintaining flood defences, rather than cutting them as they had planned, as well as look urgently at what else can be done to reduce flood risk in future".