Sentence examples for making an effort to defend from inspiring English sources

The Democrat tours such places while barely making an effort to defend states that are currently in his column.

"We are making an effort to defend his innocence, but we have no idea whether it will be successful," Mr. Shang said.

American Special Forces and British Special Air Service commandos are mounting covert operations in an increasingly chaotic setting in which the Taliban and Al Qaeda forces have splintered, with some crossing the border into Pakistan, some heading into the mountains and others making an effort to defend Kandahar, the Taliban's political base.

While Major General Benjamin Foulois was willing to commit to deploying more military resources in the resource-rich strip of land stretching from Fairbanks to Anchorage, he was not willing to devote more of his military's resources to the Aleutians, as, according to him, there was "nothing in southeastern Alaska or along the Aleutian Islands which is worth making an effort to defend".

And among the most intolerable of modern inconsistencies is this: in a world in which many countries and people are awash in knowledge and resources, humankind is merely standing by, barely making an effort to defend its young against the siege of HIV/AIDS.

Selig also made an effort to defend the deal.

There were some civil rights that the ACLU did not make an effort to defend in the 1920s, including censorship of the arts, government search and seizure issues, right to privacy, or wiretapping.

Zieler was one of six signings Leicester made in the summer as they spent over £60m in an effort to defend their title and make waves on their Champions League debut.

The firm's new boss conceded that his firm had hidden from antitrust investigators the fact that former senior executives had made legally questionable overtures to Apotex in an effort to defend the Plavix monopoly.And this week came what appeared to be the best news of all.

A precipitous fall in the currency can make these debts insupportable.For these reasons, emerging economies must often raise interest rates in the teeth of a slowdown in an effort to defend their currencies.

In an effort to defend itself, the host plant releases green-leaf volatiles to attract various species of Geocoris, and these bugs eat the eggs.