Sentence examples for defences before from inspiring English sources

Friends of the Earth understands that former floods minister Rory Stewart earmarked £20m for natural flood defences before he left Defra in the June reshuffle.

Such fuzzy nuclear maths will also make it harder for Mr Putin to come to a new understanding on missile defences before America withdraws from the ABM treaty in June.

But the logic of building defences before they are needed rather than after the event is hard to fault.The third doctrinal question with which regulators are now wrestling relates to where risks are concentrated.

After beating Sonny Liston to capture the heavyweight crown in 1964, he had nine consecutive title defences before being stripped of his championship for refusing induction into the US army at the height of the war in Vietnam.

The army was deployed to towns across Cumbria on Christmas Day to build up flood defences before Eva made landfall, bringing winds of up to 80mph and persistent downpours with it.

I was reading defences before I'd digested the accusations; hearing dark rumours that, when you looked further, turned out to be strange insinuations about the CEO Camila Batmanghelidjh's character – her "favourites" and "less favourites", her colourful scarves, her lovable (or was it?) chaos.

He did so with exaggerated leaves and a solid forward defence before, following eight deliveries of watchfulness, he dispatched a first boundary via a punch through point.

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Steve Bruce sprang to Wenger's defence before their meeting at the KC Stadium on Tuesday evening.

Vuckic ran at the defence before playing the ball infield to Gosling.

Baines, Pienaar and Fellaini cut open the Hammers' defence before Kevin Mirallas eased the ball home.