Sentence examples for for defend from inspiring English sources

These all feature characters — mostly first-person narrators, telling of their childhoods — who need to understand, account for, defend, reconcile, or otherwise deal with something difficult in their past, and storytelling is their recourse.

At that point, the ruling should have been appealed by the state's attorney general or governor, who are responsible for defend the laws of the state in court.

and Tom Coburn (Okla).. Democrats opted for defend over defund, with Obama declaring he would not negotiate over his signature law, the budget or the debt while Republicans were holding hostages.

Then, of course, there's the criminalization of  women for defend themselves, implicit and institutionalized discrimination in the law, and the fact that women's survival strategies are being judged by a normatively gender-biased "reasonable man" standard that fails us every day.

Attacked by enraged goshawk for defending hen.

But thank you for defending me.

"Thanks for defending your school".

Just for defending his team?

Is it not also responsible for defending its people?

This later became a pretext for defending "Russia's citizens".

Good for you for defending your big fella.