Sentence examples for defend an attempt from inspiring English sources

At one point, Aligismet Badalov, a journalist with the official newspaper, Khalg Gazeti, jumped up to defend an attempt earlier this year to blackmail an investigative reporter in retaliation for her efforts to expose government corruption, Khadija Ismayilova, who was secretly photographed having sex with her boyfriend.

It must defend against an attempt to block the sale of its newest chip, the Pentium III, due to wrongheaded privacy concerns.

He said that immigrants with HIV should not be able to use the UK healthcare system and conjured up "statistics" in an attempt to defend an unjustifiable point.

In this current era of specialization, the hardest aspect of Winslow's performance to fathom is the fact that he was sent out at the end of regulation to defend a field-goal attempt.

Republicans will now be the ones who have to make the attempt to defend an incredibly unpopular bill.

Any attempt to defend an entire coastline with a ton of combat power will tie up a lot of forces, the vast majority of which will never be able to get to the fight.

On Shaftesbury Avenue, scene of some of the worst clashes, Territorial Support Group officers attempting to defend an HSBC bank were attacked with bottles, sticks, bricks and traffic cones.

An incredibly athletic defensive player of the year candidate has been humbled in his attempts to defend an aging spot-up shooter, largely due to Scott Brooks's reluctance to make what could be the N.B.A. finals' most crucial adjustment.

Even the original clearly attempted something more worthwhile than mocking the afflicted, but Hurley's staging contextualises the single act with a spoken prologue and epilogue in which the symbolic figure of Health is presented as a government minister heard on the radio attempting to defend an unpopular NHS policy to a noisy House of Commons.

The natural connections between informal logic and epistemology are evident in Goldman 1999, who attempts to defend an account of knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge which situates knowledge within social interactions that take place within interpersonal exchange and knowledge institutions.

Sovereignty and dictatorship had become fused in the novel institution of sovereign dictatorship: A sovereign dictator is a dictator who does not defend an already existing constitution but attempts to create a new one and who does so not by his own authority but in the name of the people (D 112 31).