Sentence examples for defend charges from inspiring English sources

His apparent willingness to abuse his position would have made it difficult to defend charges related to his trading in Tomkins.

Merrill Lynch settlesMerrill Lynch settled with New York state's attorney-general, Eliot Spitzer, rather than defend charges that the bank's research analysts had privately disparaged shares that they praised in public so as to win lucrative investment-banking business.

Also, she was forced to defend charges that Hewlett-Packard violated the spirit of a trade embargo against Iran on her watch.

In an interview with CNN in 2012, the producer defended charges of sexual exploitation, saying he was depicting the realities of teenage life in his lyrics  and images.

Like our colleagues defending charges at the Old Bailey, I found myself mumbling that I didn't know that what we'd done was illegal.

Venezuela has already cited UK ambivalence on human rights as justification for ignoring obligations, and in 2014 Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta referred to British trash-talking about the convention in a speech while defending charges of war crimes.

Instead, it will be defending charges of war crimes.

How else does one account for the millions of naive "Claymates" who voraciously defended charges of Gayken?

Ironically, that celebration came at the height of my trial, defending charges for the intention to train Egyptian journalists on how to be better journalists.

Instead of defending charges against himself, the Drapier is calling up more support for the Irish cause; he seeks attention so that the greater liberty of Ireland will be respected.

Attorneys for one of those charged, a former BP engineer named Kurt Mix, a resident of Katy, Texas, are defending charges that Mix destroyed evidence showing that BP covered up the true extent of the 2010 spill.