Sentence examples for grounds to defend from inspiring English sources

Brooks wants the Met to stand up and accept its failings over the last two decades, not only in the Lawrence case but in other murder cases where police have spent a huge amount of money defending their own officers when there were no grounds to defend them.

If liberalism were a blind assertion of faith akin to other faiths -- belief in Christ or Allah -- we would have no grounds to defend free speech as opposed to "speech by permission," suited to the preferences of some, enforced by their power to coerce compliance.

Poincaré (1906b) took the contradictions as grounds to defend an intuitionistic, Kantian point of view.

Following the first lift, the airlanding brigade would remain at the landing grounds to defend them for the following day's lifts, while the parachute brigade set out alone to capture the bridges and ferry crossing on the River Rhine.

And they begin with difficult ground to defend after retirements that opened five Democrat-held seats in Southern states won by Mr. Bush in 2000 -- the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana.

Israel will still need superior intelligence and the ability to put boots on the ground to defend itself.Israelis often feel the need to remind their critical European and American friends that they live in a pretty tough neighbourhood.

And the gravity of the issues at hand are bolstered by the courtroom-drama style of the series, in which video snippets take us from a meeting of Times editors to the Washington courthouse where lawyers and reporters stood their ground to defend their sources.

"We fancied chasing, it's quite a hard ground to defend and a lot of edges can fly downhill.

While the government faced the brunt of the court's skepticism, it has the most ground to defend: It won a near-total victory at the trial, presided over by District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Thomas Penfield Jackson, that ended in June 1999.

–Jeff Jarvis writes for us that, because of NSA spying, the United States has lost its moral high ground to defend the web against states who want to control the Web –"Our net is in danger — not because of Edward Snowden, but because of what we now know about the actions of the U.S. government.

Some objectives require that the player arrives at a checkpoint, while other objectives require the player to eliminate enemies in a specified location, stand their ground to defend an objective, or plant explosive charges on an enemy installation.