Sentence examples for defend the result from inspiring English sources

McGhee tried in interviews to protect the players, to defend the result as a freakish accident.

We can't defend the result we have to go for it and we will go for it.

Ever since the decision in 2000, in which a five-Justice majority ended a recount of votes that had been ordered by the Florida Supreme Court, O'Connor has defended the result publicly.

That is anyway only the start of a process that will involve trying to persuade President Bush to sign the bill and defending the result against inevitable challenge in the Supreme Court.

But she defended the results.

In a statement on Wednesday, the United Nations defended the results.

"Everything will depend on how our team defends the results.

Ziggy Liaquat, managing director of the Edexcel exam board, defended the results: "Teachers are working increasingly hard; students are more focussed, they have more access to information.

PHTK and Bouclier are also the two parties most staunchly defending the results.

Republicans haven't closed ranks behind one of these proposals, perhaps because doing so would mean acknowledging and defending the results.

The purpose of this mobilisation was to defend the official result of the presidential election on March 4th that gave Vladimir Putin, outgoing prime minister, 64% of the vote.On election night, the army and police guarded some 100,000 grim-looking people who had been brought to Manezh Square, beneath the Kremlin walls, to celebrate Mr Putin's victory.