Sentence examples for defense rises from inspiring English sources

As one senior administration official said, noting that the issue was now technological rather than political, "missile defense rises and falls on whether it works.

Their defense rose to 2nd from 31st, the best one-season improvement in league history.

As the game wore on, the Titans' defense rose like bricks in a wall.

The Giants won, 13-6, in a game in which their defense rose and defended its honor.

Georgia's defense rose up and made a huge stop, picking off Alabama QB A.J. McCarron in the end zone.

The defense rose up in the second half and cut off the Vikings' big-play combination of Daunte Culpepper to Randy Moss.

Between 2001 and 2009, overall spending on defense rose from $412 billion to $699 billion, a 70 percent increase, which is larger than in any comparable period since the Korean War.

On Mr. Berlusconi's watch, government expenditures — including the cost of public administration and defense — rose to more than $1 trillion in 2010 from $753 billion in 2000.

A category of orders that is viewed as a proxy for business investment plans — which excludes the volatile areas of transportation and defense — rose 1.5 percent.

Democrats can even avoid using the term "climate change" — call it extreme weather defense, rising tide abatement or forest-fire prevention.

Wisconsin's top-rated defense rose to the occasion repeatedly in the fourth quarter after U.C.L.A. quarterback Cade McNown passed at will in the first three quarters.