Sentence examples for main defence of from inspiring English sources

We would have more local champions, usually the main defence of FPTP.

Roux was more a laboratory man than a philosopher, so the main defence of the principles of mechanism, that all living processes "can be unequivocally explained in physicochemical terms" [quoted in [ 41], p.430] fell to Jacques Loeb [ 42].

The main defence on the use of secret reserve accounting came with the help of Lord Plender.

And look at the way the Republicans' main defence on sleaze is that of every politician-on-the-take throughout history: that some of their opponents have been doing it too.If the Democrats can raise themselves from their stupor, politics could change dramatically.

Wind is one of the main defences of Open courses and controlling the ball in the breeze is crucial if you are to avoid the thick rough and deep bunkers.

The keep was surrounded by a curtain wall with probably four flanking towers and a fortified gatehouse protecting a relatively small bailey; these outer defences, rather than the keep, probably represented the main defences of the castle.

His main defence against the barrage of white feathers was that his wealth and influence rendered him more valuable to his country in Los Angeles than at the front – which was placing him at a far cry from the underdog he played on screen.

He was speaking at the Royal United Services Institute in London, Britain's main defence thinktank, where some members of the audience – a mixture of serving and former officers, academics and activists – described his approach as refreshing.

Davis's main defence, faced with inevitable allegations of hypocrisy, is that the potential new ID card is actually not an ID card, because the EU nationals forced to have it would not actually be required to carry it around.

One of the main defence witnesses was a psychologist, Dr Louise Olivier, who turned up looking like Barbara Cartland, in pink suit and big hair, and was revealed to be the sex doctor for a popular magazine.

The main defence lies in the difference of two populations given placebo.