Sentence examples for first defenders from inspiring English sources

First, defenders of (1) are in no better a position than defenders of (2).

No doubt such a frame of mind was a component of pre-revolutionary thinking, though it is doubtful that the French Revolution as an historic episode had the kind of effect that its first defenders hoped for.

Telesio's vision of the genesis of nature is simple to the point of being archaic, yet at the same time astonishingly modern in the sense that he seems to have been one of the very first defenders of a theory of natural evolution without metaphysical or theological presuppositions.

There is no clear textual evidence of Nietzsche's view on this subtle question, yet it still makes sense to use the "N-Realist" label for two reasons: first, defenders of this reading treat Nietzsche's view as "naturalistic"; and, second, it is in fact 'naturalistic' in a familiar nineteenth-century sense, i.e., it denies that there are any supernatural properties.

Travis became one of the first defenders to die, shot while firing his shotgun into the soldiers below him, though one source says that he drew his sword and stabbed a Mexican officer who had stormed the wall before succumbing to his injury.

The first defender is seldom the last.

The first defender dived at his feet and missed.

First turn of pace takes her outside the first defender, inside the next.

The first Defender of the Faith sent no condolences when Pope Clement VII died in 1534.

20min Owen Hargreaves crosses but it is cut out by Lampard, the first defender.

Sharpton offered himself up as Jackson's first defender to the morning television news programs.