Sentence examples for defending a set from inspiring English sources

Whoever made that cynical censorship decision understands that those soldiers may be defending a set of interests at odds with this country and its Constitution, and they need to be kept in the dark about that.

Portland, who had struggled with Seattle's countering (Dempsey made a gut-busting run from defending a set-piece at one end of the field to score at the other end for the Sounders' second) and wide play, did get on the scoresheet twice in the second half with the introduction of the physical Fanendo Adi up front, after Maxi Urruti had failed to make headway.

Why can't teams defend a set piece?

"You organise a team to defend a set play, to be coherent, to hold the line, and then there is a person who does not do his job.

Raphaël Varane was spotted tugging the shirt of Adil Rami while trying to defend a set piece but from the resulting penalty Keylor Navas parried Gameiro's kick, his third penalty save of the campaign.

Moran, who was first elected in 2010 and has a solidly conservative voting record, found himself being forced to defend a set of reforms to Medicaid that meant potentially closing many rural hospitals and taking health-care coverage away from more than a hundred thousand of his fellow-Kansans, according to the Urban Institute.

Mark Robins, Huddersfield manager: "We did not defend a set play and that has cost us the point we had.

"We couldn't defend a set play and it made the last six or seven minutes a lot edgier than it should have been.

In the second half I couldn't ask any more other than we defend a set-piece better in the 90th minute".

1517 BBC Radio Scotland pundit and Motherwell defender Stephen Craigan: "It just goes to show that for all your hard work in midfield or attack, if you can't defend a set-piece, you are going to pay the price".

She also said that she had once declined to represent the state of Colorado in defending a minority set-aside policy not because she disagreed with the policy, but because the state's position was not legally defensible.