Sentence examples for function to defend from inspiring English sources

Twelve thousand strong and commanded by Major General John B. Magruder, these troops had a two-fold function — to defend the country between the York and James Rivers against a Federal advance by land from Fort Monroe, and, secondly, to prevent Federal ships from passing up York River to West Point, where they could land troops within less than forty miles of Richmond.

However, serpins in resting larvae (L) may also function to defend against potential pathogens.

Many identified stigma-specific or preferential genes were potentially involved in encoding signaling molecules, such as protein kinases and receptor-like kinases, proteins and enzymes modifying the cell wall, cuticle or ECM to facilitate the entry of the pollen tube into the stigma, and defense-related proteins that function to defend against pathogens or in response to pollination.

"That is one of her functions, to defend the judiciary.

In small mammals, territoriality functions to defend food resources and/or offspring against infanticide [32], [33].

We therefore speculate that metformin may raise ROS levels to activate intestinal SKN-1, where it functions to defend against oxidative stress and promote longevity.

The visual field map overlying the lower body representation in superior parietal cortex is primarily lower field, as would be expected if part of its function was to defend and coordinate the lower part of the body with respect to visual and somatosensory objects in the lower part of near peripersonal space; for example, when watching your step.

We don't do "good cops" versus "bad cops"; whether they smile or snarl while they do it, their primary function is to defend the rule of the wealthy.

Trump and the White House have repeatedly described his efforts to scuttle the investigation as "fighting back". By all indications, Trump's stated belief that his attorney general's proper function is to defend him from the probe — and his rage at Jeff Sessions for failing to carry out that task — appear entirely heartfelt.

In a campesino (peasant farmer) village called La Rosa, shortly upriver, the local council's president, Gregorio Rosales, said he believed the army's main function was to defend oil operations, rather than protect civilians from the armed conflict or fight the "war on drugs".

Margie Profet, then at the University of California Berkeley, suggested that menstruation's function is to "defend against pathogens transported to the uterus [womb] by sperm".