Sentence examples for defenders thought from inspiring English sources

So unexpected was Grierson's achievement that when one of his orderlies fell asleep and rode all the way to the picket lines outside Baton Rouge, Union defenders thought his appearance was a trick to expose them to attack.

It appeared that several Yale defenders thought Cheatham stepped out of bounds, although neither Yale Coach Jack Siedlecki nor his players questioned the play in a game full of big plays.

The Vale defenders thought he was lining up to shoot but he cleverly slipped Nicky in behind.

Smoke and dust from the British barrage limited visibility to 100 yards and some defenders thought that figures moving towards them were German soldiers, retreating "elastically" and were also overrun.

With explosions erupting from the powder magazine and the other building burning fiercely, the castle defense quickly devolved into chaos, as the shocked and exhausted defenders thought they were under a full-scale attack from behind.

In either case, the publishing house comes out badly: When you are a publisher, you become willy-nilly defender of thought and word, and by an unwritten code when driven to the wall, commercial interests should become subservient to the far nobler aim of protecting free speech and thought.

The battle has emerged as a major test of whether the air campaign can push back IS, but the defenders - thought to number between 1,000 and 2,000 - say they also need heavy weapons to defeat the militants.

The battle for Kobane has emerged as a major test of whether the air campaign can push back IS but the Kurdish defenders - thought to number between 1,000 and 2,000 - have appealed for heavy weapons to defeat the militants.

It is a chilling thought for defenders of intellectual property rights who have already seen piracy take its toll on the music and movie industries.

That gave defenders an extra set of thoughts to process on each play.

… [T]his strikes me as even more open-and-shut ethical call than the Nazis marching in Skokie — and which demands at least an equal level of condemnation from the defenders of civil liberties and independent thought.