Sentence examples for less to defend from inspiring English sources

Karl tried for years to get Anthony to pull back a little, to pass a little more, to shoot a little less, to defend a little more passionately.

Mr. McKenzie, who has less to defend at Ballet Theater, a company that has always drawn from an international roster of dancers, is sanguine about these issues.

This week his aim was less to defend Mr Chubais than to calm the game a little and to reassert his mastery of it.Mr Chubais, Russia's most effective reformer, had spoilt things for himself by accepting jointly with four colleagues an implausibly large advance payment of $450,000 for writing a book to be called "The History of Russian Privatisation".

Being attacked is no cause for killing or maiming when you could have reasonably done less to defend yourself.

But the team's bullpen is just one of a number of worries for Collins, who has appeared less and less willing to defend his team's poor play.

Robb Moss, who teaches filmmaking at Harvard University and has consulted with the Jacob Burns Center, said that without the skills to view media critically, "you are less of a good citizen, and less able to defend yourself against the powers of advertising and political persuasion".

For example, plants lacking LOX2 and LOX3 usually appeared to be less healthy and they were less likely to survive long enough to reproduce because they were less able to defend themselves against herbivores.

Individuals may be less able to defend themselves.

More importantly, his supporters are notably less keen to defend him.

But he will be no less determined to defend the security of Colombia.

But a smaller village is less able to defend itself against larger neighbors.