The city fathers insist, apparently out of sheer spite, that the match can only take place if a local golfer participates, and so Hardy decides to roust Junuh from his drunken self-pity and send him out onto the links to defend his hometown's honor.
Fire-fights in the bleak villages of southern Afghanistan were directly linked to defending the streets of London.
The odd thing about concerted action, when a number of people close ranks and link up to defend a cause, or to utter a cry for change, is how often one voice, for all the force of that communal intent, stands out from the hubbub.
Link, trying to defend Tracy, receives detention as well.
For a time — the 1930s, give or take a few years — these artists linked arms to defend modern American art against the dreariness and insularity of the Depression.
Until now, the political class of all hues here have linked arms to defend the privately owned nuclear dockyard at Devonport, to the cost of any other inward investment, tourism and social infrastructure.
And how many Conservative leaders before Cameron would have linked the battle to defend freedom on the beaches of Normandy with the struggles of gay pride?
An anti-vaccine activist who co-founded one of the most outspoken groups that links autism to vaccines, Generation Rescue, took to the airwaves of CNN yesterday, when the BMJ investigation was released, to defend the link and argue that other studies have reported one.
Phil Mickelson is drawing on happy memories and his passion for links golf as he prepares to defend the Scottish Open title at Royal Aberdeen.
Amnesty welcomed convicted pimps to shape the policy and others linked to the sex trade to defend them on the media circuit.
