Sentence examples for formal defence from inspiring English sources
Kraft hit back this morning, a day after the British chocolate maker issued a formal defence against its £10bn takeover offer.
In response to questions from The Economist, Mr Sanea's lawyers also said that he "is not prepared to rehearse his formal defence in the media before it has been properly heard and adjudicated upon by a competent court".Many unanswered questionsFor all the sleuthing by private and government investigators, forensic accountants and lawyers since 2009, much remains unclear.
President Obama didn't give the Arabs the formal defence treaty some of them wanted.
But it won't result in the kind of formal defence pact they've requested - Congress would be unlikely to approve.
Upon the project's completion, students had to undergo a formal defence for which an external examiner was required.
"Given these strictures, [Khan] could not raise a formal alibi defence.
Kosovo has been the historic catalyst which pushed the EU into adopting at the Cologne summit a formal European Defence Identity, aimed at giving the EU the military tools to ensure the peace of its own continent.
George Zimmerman's lawyers opened their formal courtroom defence of the neighbourhood watch captain on Friday after failing to persuade a Florida judge that he should be immediately acquitted of the second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin.
During the trial, James Peters QC said while Chubb's policy allowed for reasonable defence in formal investigations, that coverage did not include Hird's attempts to stop Asada's investigation in the federal court.
In LA, the pearl I dived for was a slightly damp-stained and foxed copy of Conversations with Richard Wilbur, which contains 30 years of the Pulitzer prize-winner's lucid, gentle defences of formal verse and his organic relationship with it.
He was quoted as saying he had engineered a seat at a formal dinner with the Ministry of Defence's new permanent secretary, Jon Thompson, to help another company, Capital Symonds, which is bidding for a £400m contract to manage the MoD's estates.
