Sentence examples for defend only a small from inspiring English sources

The Swedish chief of staff subsequently declared that his forces could defend only a small part of the country against Russian attack, for a week at best.

Terns defend only a small area, with distances between nests sometimes being as little as 50 cm, although 150-350 cm is more typical.

At the time of the Allied landing, the Arawe area was defended by only a small force, though reinforcements were en route.

The city was difficult to defend and had only a small militia garrison.

Pied flycatchers are ideal in this respect, because they only defend a small area around the nest box.

Poor condition hosts may be less able to defend themselves, but may offer only a small gain to the parasite because, e.g. they have very limited resources to offer.

Mr Fico himself takes a softer line, defending only what he calls "reasonable historicism".

But Crown, also the Brentford chairman, defended the decision, telling Talksport: "We are only a small club in small region of Denmark and this is our cup final so we have to make the most of our opportunity".

But North Korea's bizarre mixture of personality cult and paranoia is a harder sell: most defend it as a victim of American imperialism; only a small minority insist that it is a workers' paradise.

In an interview, Ms. Helms defended the survey and said that working for the trade group was only a small part of her job.

But because only a small number of communications aircraft would have to be defended, the size of the protected zone would be small — much smaller than the no-flight zones imposed on the Saddam Hussein regime after the gulf war.