Sentence examples for defences when they from inspiring English sources

However, few properties are equipped with flood defences such as "skirting" and barriers, in part because owners fear this could put off future buyers, and in some cases because insurance companies do not provide for such defences when they compensate customers after floods.

I see myself as trying to break open defences when they're tight and locked.

Dallas have been the league's surprise team of the season, mustering a respectable defence when they were widely expected to be the worst in the league.

All that bureaucracy Hilton wants to scrap is often the employee's only defence when they're being harassed or unfairly treated by an employer.

Let's hope that Gordon Brown and the Czech president have a serious discussion about US missile defence when they meet today.

Senator John McCain, the Republicans' 2008 candidate, and Sarah Palin, his running-mate, voiced similar misgivings: better to have helped the rebels clinch their victory when they appeared to be on a roll than come to their defence when they were at their last gasp on the edge of defeat.

Osman played alongside Butcher in the Ipswich defence when they won the 1981 UEFA Cup final against AZ Alkmaar.

It's important to note that the brothers did not plead at trial that they acted in self-defence when they chased and attacked the intruder.

Tigers - without suspended director of rugby Richard Cockerill - will be made to wait until Sunday to begin their title defence, when they welcome Worcester to Welford Road.

The home team had virtually given up hope of cracking open a brave Nigerian defence when they were awarded an 89th-minute free-kick.

The way Liverpool want to play out of defence when they have possession is that their two centre-backs split and the two full-backs push up to the halfway line.