Sentence examples for had no defence from inspiring English sources

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"They had no defence.

From this line of attack the animal had no defence.

"With the things they were doing to me, I had no defence".

Miners had no defence other than to try and outrun the horses.

But even if Lillo quite rightly reminded people that Barcelona had scored six at the Bernabéu, he had no defence.

He had no defence when Mr Romney hammered him for calling the Social Security (pensions) system on which millions of Americans rely unconstitutional and a "Ponzi scheme".

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"I think I was just so tired that I had no defences, and I was just sobbing at everything".

At the end, when Moscow is about to be destroyed by the monstrous swarms, it is saved because of a cold snap that kills the tropical creatures in the nick of time; just as in The War of the Worlds, the aliens were opportunely destroyed by a virus they had no defences against, like natives of South America and other innocent places before the coming of the Europeans bearing deadly diseases.

If their 'fresh' host had no defences, the viruses could cause a serious pandemic, as seen with HIV, SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and avian influenza virus that originated from chimpanzees, the common palm civet and birds, respectively.

You have no defence against it".

"I have no defence" – Gary Neville.

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