Sentence examples for defences was from inspiring English sources

Surely scrapping such limits on defences was a mistake?

After taking office in 2010, annual funding for flood defences was slashed by 27%.

Late in 2014 the National Audit Office warned them that spending on flood defences was being spread too thinly.

Spending on flood defences was increased from 2003, but official enthusiasm for building new flood barriers is waning.

The CCC said "residual" flood risk – the flooding resulting from extreme weather events that cannot be prevented by normal flood defences – was increasing.

The raid, conducted by US special forces transported from Afghanistan in stealth helicopters that evaded Pakistan's air defences, was seen as a humiliation for the country's military establishment.

Some defences are simply barriers.

But these defences are under pressure.

Some of these defences are simple barriers.

But the defences were a cruel deception.

Defences were in place at both bridges.