Sentence examples for defenseless position from inspiring English sources
Harrison was fined because of the helmet-to-helmet contact and because Brigham was in a defenseless position, the league spokeswoman Leslie Hammond said.
The league disagreed, pointing out in its announcement that quarterbacks outside the pocket are afforded the same protections against a defensive player using his helmet in hitting a passer in a defenseless position.
In an October game, he stomped his cleat into the face of Cowboys center Andre Gurode, who, at that moment, was in a defenseless position at the bottom of a pile with his helmet off.
Two players were fined after last weekend's games for hits on players who the league determined were in defenseless positions.
The position left Hutcherson defenseless when an officer he said grew frustrated with interrogating him and punched him two or three times in the face.
The difference seems to be that a vulnerable player leaves himself open to a head check and does not warrant the rule's protection, but a defenseless player is in a position where he has the right to assume he will not be hit, and so deserves the rule's protection.
At least one former NSF rotator, meanwhile, has learned that the apparent benefits of keeping one's salary and position and not having to become a civil servant leaves them defenseless if tensions arise in the workplace (see Part 2, "Scientists on Loan to NSF Have No Protection if Job Conduct Is Questioned").
"Anyone in his position who has been subjected to what he has been subjected to is pretty defenseless".
(The defenseless girder vanished).
A defenseless little baby".
