Sentence examples for heroic defender from inspiring English sources

SIR ROY MEADOW'S reputation as a heroic defender of children took 25 years to build, but only one to demolish.

"The movie wants us to forget the girls (although a fair number are shown in the buff) and contemplate the man behind the centerfolds as a heroic defender of freedom of the press and equal rights".

Though Mr. Bellows does his best to look the part of a heroic defender of civilized society, viewers may find themselves wondering how Billy got over the fatal brain tumor he was suffering from on the Fox network.

At the popular level, theatre and minstrel troupes funded by the crown travelled around the land to promote the new religious practices: the pope and Catholic priests and monks were mocked as foreign devils, while the glorious king was hailed as a brave and heroic defender of the true faith.

Scanniello has met many New York gardeners he considers heroic defenders of the rose.

Conspiracy theorists often set themselves up as heroic defenders of life, liberty and truth.

They are not trying to win plaudits as heroic defenders of downtrodden masses.

In postwar Poland, Communists seeking to discredit the Home Army and obscure Moscow's ignominious role hung posters side by side reading "Glory to the heroic defenders of the ghetto" and "Shame to the fascist servants of the Home Army".

"We are the heroic defenders of science and reason," said Mr. Kurtz, 76, an emeritus professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo and author or editor of 35 books, including the "Secular Humanist Manifesto II".

Throughout the Kosovo bombing campaign, China's official media virtually ignored reports of "ethnic cleansing" and other Serbian atrocities in Kosovo and described Mr. Milosevic and his government as heroic defenders of the sacred principle of national sovereignty.

When peaceful Muslims come to buy into this narrative, al-Qaida and its fellow travellers become heroic defenders of the faith, and a new generation of Muslims become vulnerable to radicalisation.