Sentence examples for defending a high from inspiring English sources

Neymar defending a high ball in his own half: this was where Kovac will have dreamed about playing this game.

"This has to be one of the better starts by Indian seamers while defending a high total," says Anand. "Usually, we get walloped pretty badly.

Mann was then scheduled to face future World Extreme Cagefighting standout Brad Pickett, though the fight was later cancelled after Pickett suffered a broken arm defending a high kick.

Territorial brown trout Salmo trutta were willing to invest more in defending a high cover territory under the risk of predation [65].

One theory, as Jon Leyne explained on the BBC News live blog devoted to the war's endgame, is that the guards around the hotel could be defending "a high-value target," somewhere in the building.

Although Mr. Lippestad acknowledged that he was courting professional suicide by taking the case, the Norwegian public — and even survivors of Mr. Breivik's rampage — appear to accept that he was defending a higher cause than that of the self-confessed killer.

And while it's probably not a surprise to hear Armstrong defending a high-profile employee, Digiday made similar points after the New Yorker story.

WASHINGTON -- A D.C. lawyer who posed for Playboy while at Yale Law School will be honored Monday at the Playboy Mansion for her work defending a high-profile National Security Agency whistleblower.

That night, General Musharraf and other Pakistani officials suggested that those inside the compound might have been fighting to defend a "high value target".

Nearly everyone in the camp was there either to defend a high national ranking — as was Trier, who for two years has been the top-ranked player in his class — or to improve a ranking.

For example, high song rates were found to be associated with higher feeding rates in a few species, and it was suggested that high song rates possibly indicate a male's foraging efficiency, his ability to defend a high quality territory or individual quality in general [ 21– 23].