Sentence examples for defences in a from inspiring English sources

Grandmasters and amateurs, octogenarians and juniors, first-time attenders and 50th-time veterans have gathered to essay their queen's gambits and Sicilian defences in a competition that will finally end on Tuesday – chess is nothing if not slow burn.

The CCC highlight data from the Environment Agency, which delivers the government's flood defence plans, that shows the percentage of important flood defences in a poor state of repair has almost tripled since 2011, to 3.5%.

At the time, she writes, she willed herself to "get over it"; it wasn't until "10 years later that it came hurtling up through layers of defences in a blazing fever".

Mr Putin does it, though, with less panache than his predecessor and more cold-eyed realism about the limits of his country's room for manoeuvre.With no pretence to personal warmth, Presidents Clinton and Putin artfully finessed their differences over strategic issues, especially anti-missile defences, in a way that enabled each to claim success and look good at home.

Flood defences in a Worcestershire town are to be officially unveiled later.

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But in the end neither side had the cutting edge to break down two resolute defences in an end-to-end encounter.

The defendant, wishing to highlight the lack of fire defences in an old people's home, set fire to it to demonstrate the risks.

Juventus owned the best defence in Serie A, but Napoli the best attack.

No one dares touch defence, in a troubled world.

"This was never self defence in a hundred years".