Sentence examples for defensive statements from inspiring English sources

The silence from Hawaii and the defensive statements from Sunderland added to the impression that the club felt it was immaterial what political views Di Canio espoused.

Titans of the discipline, including the Burlesque Hall of Fame, plus-size icon Dirty Martini, lined up to offer support as the beleaguered club published defensive statements on its Facebook page.

The book was published posthumously in Spanish in 2004 to tremendous acclaim, after what appears to have been a bit of dithering over Bolaño's final intentions — a small result of which is that its English translation (by Natasha Wimmer, the indefatigable translator of "The Savage Detectives") has been bracketed by two faintly defensive statements justifying the book's present form.

The other four review articles published in CAM journals begin with defensive statements, noting the benefits of homeopathy (e.g., low side effects) and the challenges of using conventional clinical trial and systematic review methods to assess homeopathic treatments [ 13].

Don't let a million defensive statements come crashing into your head.

More like the jolly plumage of a robin, than any kind of defensive statement.

The group responded Thursday in an extraordinarily defensive statement that it had declined to join the protests only because it feared its presence could provoke more violence, not because of a political calculus.

mode and raised doubts about the memos, CBS and Rather dug in their heels, even as the ground was crumbling under them, and put out a bizarrely defensive statement saying, "Contrary to some rumors, no internal investigation is underway at CBS News nor is one planned".

Her team's decision to release what read like a defensive statement is all the more confounding.

But Speaker J.D. Mesnard called for Shooter to be ousted after Shooter released a defensive statement Thursday moments before the vote, calling into question the veracity of the investigation and hinting that another lawmaker was also guilty of misconduct.

Pence on Sunday responded in an unusually defensive statement pushing back on the story, calling it 'fake news' and affirming that he was 'honored to be working side-by-side with a president who is making America great again.'" [HuffPost].