Sentence examples for defended rather than from inspiring English sources

The struggle will be to maintain openness and tolerance as the norm, the values that our children absorb into their identities naturally to be defended rather than be defensive about.

Mr Shawn is a pianist, composer and professor of music who writes with an enthusiasm and affection for his subject that is immediately engrossing.He believes that a large part of the problem with the way people view Schoenberg's work is that it needs to be explained and defended, rather than simply listened to.

Ever since Von Schirach junior started to dominate the German bestseller lists two years ago, the 47-year-old lawyer-turned-author has had to field questions about his forebears – despite the fact that his short crime stories were based on the criminals he had defended rather than those sitting above him in his family tree.

I suggested early in this essay that to begin from a principle of unregulated speech is to start from a place that itself needs to be vigorously defended rather than simply assumed.

Balotelli said nothing, but his coach, Mancini, chose to defend rather than to reproach him.

You can also hack into security systems and turrets to make them defend rather than attack you.

As it happens, the heroes defend rather than avenge, but at least this formulation is snappy and comprehensible.

His effort took a deflection on its way wide - chalk it up to good defending rather than a missed sitter.

Now that the once revolutionary Chinese Communist Party has become the ancien regime, its leaders find themselves confronting the challenge of defending rather than overthrowing the status quo.

The aim should not be to stigmatize the police but to insure that they serve to defend rather than attack the right to peaceable protest.

This was a far from swanky performance, with victory secured by a scruffy goal from Per Mertesacker and solid defending rather than sparkling attacking.