Sentence examples for making to defend from inspiring English sources

You can really feel that weight of the sacrifice our people are making to defend America watching Sebastian Junger's moving film, Restrepo.

At home he faces powerful nationalist calls (largely of his own making) to defend them.

Rules that were made to defend the rights of the less wealthy are being overlooked.

Hurried preparations were then made to defend Delhi, but the faction-ridden nobles could not agree on a strategy.

Dr. FitzGerald tried to undermine many of the arguments Pfizer has made to defend the safety of Celebrex and Bextra.

Now she will front a campaign for Sainsbury's – a decision which she has, disgracefully, been made to defend.

Or he would have thought that, had he not been made to defend himself when questioned about it.

The change to a straight bat was made to defend against length bowling, which had evolved with cricketers in Hambledon, a small village in southern England.

Mitt Romney was made to defend his, and morally and secularly flunked the test to be a president for this writer.

The contortions that certain pet economists make to defend the indefensible 1% are often to do with positing the super-rich as inherently talented and being self-made.

Feeble attempts were made to defend the government's position on Aids, with such arguments as the inability of South Africa to afford anti-retroviral drugs.