Sentence examples for defensible as collateral from inspiring English sources

While the lawyers believed that his killing was legally defensible as collateral damage, the death cast a cloud over all those months of seemingly cautious efforts to analyze who should go on the list and who should not.

In fact, other top officials of the group were the strike's specific targets, and Mr. Awlaki's death would have been collateral damage — legally defensible as a death incidental to the military aim.

He described her case as "collateral damage".

Culture is not hit as collateral damage.

The property and copyrights remain as collateral.

"It's seen as collateral damage.

In war, both sides destroy art, usually as collateral damage.

The shares had been pledged as collateral for a loan.

When borrowing to buy stocks, the shares serve as collateral.

Prosecutors said they froze the shares as collateral.

"I borrowed money to go, with my land as collateral".