"defend him from" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It is typically used to express protecting someone from harm, danger, or criticism. Example: Mary promised to defend her brother from their strict parents' accusations.
I'm not going to defend him anymore.' He didn't want to defend him from day one".
Most of Mr. Malkmus's listeners would in all likelihood defend him from having to represent his generation.
They also polish his image internationally and help defend him from charges that his government harbors traffickers, including Colombian guerrilla forces involved in the drug trade.
The least his party could do is defend him from Trump's dishonorable smears". That's beyond the moral capacity of nearly all elected Republicans these days.
In some ways, he said, it has been helpful because it has stirred conservatives to defend him from some of the criticism he's received.
He would be forced to rely on the Democratic Party and independent liberal groups to defend him from Republican attacks until the formal start of the general election.
Prince Harry defends him from homophobic attack by fellow soldiers.
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, an Iranian lawyer, represented a Christian pastor pro bono, successfully defending him from charges of apostasy.
His relations with Havel are "friendly though not close", but he has defended him from media attacks.
And Ms. Stapleton's film, without making inflated claims for his status as an artist, ably defends him from such condescension.
At the age of eighty, with scarcely a voice to be heard defending him from Inverness to Brighton, maybe Murdoch has finally had his fill of the Poms.
