Sentence examples for defended on this from inspiring English sources

One of these, the modern Ponte Sublicio, is named for the wooden bridge defended on this part of the river by the legendary Roman hero Horatius and his comrades.

Coursing is sometimes defended on this basis, even though the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife has said that coursing does not "reduce the population enough to alleviate damage".

In demanding constant recognition of historical injustice in "the little things," Williams surely does not want to hear such acts defended on the grounds that this is only because blacks were not formerly found at those schools or in those good jobs.

Such taxes are sometimes defended on the basis that only the rich can afford fancy technology.

"It's defended on the grounds that it doesn't discourage people from going to university.

First, some end-result principles have been defended on the basis of considerations about luck.

The first game I think he was a little bit lost, he defended on the wing.

The TNA X Division and the TNA World Tag Team Championships were defended on the event's undercard.

At the basic level, monitoring can be defended on the basis of historical controls.

For housing associations, the profits position is harder to defend on this basis.

And so large a change should be undertaken only for a system that can be defended on its own merits.For this newspaper, that system would have to be genuinely more proportional than the current one.