Sentence examples for ground defense from inspiring English sources

This time, St-Pierre wanted to destroy Penn's heretofore impassable ground defense.

The "stand your ground" defense withers when your victims are alive, and doubly fails when they serve as witnesses to a crime, living to tell the tale.

Speaking publicly for the first time on Friday evening, Craig A. Sonner, Mr. Zimmerman's lawyer, said on CNN that he would not use the Stand Your Ground defense should his client be charged in the shooting.

In May , 2012 Marissa Alexander, an African-American from Jacksonville, Florida, attempted to employ a Stand Your Ground defense after firing a "warning shot" during a dispute with her estranged husband, who had a history of domestic violence.

The sheriff said Gasser never asked for an attorney and spent more than 10 hours in non-custodial interviews with police, during which he attempted to establish a 'stand your ground' defense.

It will also bring a re-trial for Marissa Alexander, a Florida woman who allegedly fired a warning shot into the air when her abusive husband had her cornered; though Alexander, like Zimmerman, invoked the state's "Stand Your Ground" defense, she wound up with a twenty-year prison sentence.

(Reuters) IRAQ: ALLIED BOMBING Iraq said American and British planes attacked civilian targets in the north and south before being driven off by ground defenses.

In Germany's invasions of Poland and France early in World War II, the JU 87 (Stuka) dive bomber opened the way for German armoured columns by shattering enemy ground defenses and terrorizing civilians.

STRONGHOLD BAGHDAD -- Senior American military officials say Iraq has ringed its capital with air and ground defenses more formidable than those in 1991, but has left overall defenses across the country weaker.

Ground defenses are more varied and include three different walkers, laser and missile turrets, tanks, probe droids, shuttles, stormtroopers and speeder bikes.

Chennault believed that the right mix of fighters and ground defenses could successfully defeat a bomber assault and ridiculed Walker for suggesting that bombers could not be stopped, leading to "legendary" debates between the two.