Sentence examples for defence whether from inspiring English sources

Time and again, Mr Bush argued that a good offence is the best defence, whether it be in Iraq, the war on terror, or tax cuts.

In a "trial of facts", the jury is asked to decide – on the basis of evidence adduced by prosecution lawyers and by lawyers appointed by the court to put the case for the defence – whether or not the accused did the acts he was charged with.

But we are basically the last line of defence – whether we save a writer from a legal suit, looking daft or being simply unintelligible – and our furniture (headlines, standfirsts – also known as subheadings – and captions) can be decisive in whether a story is read or ignored.

I'd be getting Mattieu Bastareaud to make decisions in defence, whether to step in or to the slide.

One of the by-products of the drugs defence, whether it works or not, is that any mention of drugs being used by a perpetrator gets magnified in the media and the "killer drugs" machine whirrs into action once more, despite a distinct lack of evidence that illegal drugs miraculously transform people into killers.

It is not clear at which stage of the bacterial life cycle ISG15 acts (uptake, cytosol entry, proliferation, cellular defence), whether conjugation of ISG15 is required, nor what its mechanism of action is.

For all England's emerging attacking potential, there was always a nagging doubt about whether Hodgson's defence could cope with strikers of the highest class.

He said: "Whatever is required, whether it is dredging work on the rivers Tone and Parrett, whether it is support for our emergency services, whether it is fresh money for flood defences, whether it's action across the board, this government will help those families and get this issue sorted".

Challenged by the defence over whether "you" could be "a", she agreed it was possible, but she was of the opinion it was the word "you".

Scotland planned to chip kick and get the ball wide early on - accepted methods of beating a rush defence, though whether they were told to do it under their own posts is another matter - but were charged down once and intercepted twice.

Having heard submissions of the defence on whether to place Roy Bennett on remand, Magistrate indicated that a ruling will be made tomorrow (Wednesday 18 February 2009) at 1415hrs.