Sentence examples for defenceless from from inspiring English sources

They were both outsiders, social lightning conductors, defenceless from the start.

Vicious cuts to housing support have expelled the financially defenceless from city centres, devastating support networks, employment opportunities and communities.

A programming error resulted in exclusion of the items 'Chastity is an important and valuable virtue' from the purity scale and 'One of the worst things a person could do is hurt a defenceless animal' from the harm scale.

By 1960, John Sturges was established as a master of the western and he's fully in command of this transposition from medieval Japan to nineteenth-century Mexico of a tale of six honourable warriors (and a wannabe hero) hired to protect defenceless villagers from marauding bandits.

"We have run out of excuses for our failure to live up to our responsibility to protect our innocent defenceless children from gratuitous violence," the speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, told legislators at a special session last week to mourn the latest victims – 59 students killed at a boarding school in neighbouring Yobe state on 25 February.

One who has no experience of fighting will reflexively try to remove your hands from his head leaving his defenceless for a short while.

Boko Haram and militant groups have taken up arms against the State [Nigeria] and its defencible and defenceless citizens, resulting from frustration and social discontentment.

Every year, some 129 million babies around the world begin an extraordinary developmental sprint - from defenceless new-borns to pro-active 3-year-olds.

Ladies and Gentlemen, every year, some 129 million babies around the world begin an extraordinary developmental sprint - from defenceless new-borns to pro-active 3-year-olds.

Now that the bill has passed, "many severely sick and defenceless humans will be rescued from ongoing torture".

A thuggish attack on a defenceless machine also recalls episodes from the author's novelette version of Bicentennial Man.