Sentence examples for may be defending from inspiring English sources

The Saints may be defending champions, but the franchise has never won a postseason road game.

She may be defending champion but rejects the idea that she is the favourite to win another Olympic gold.

American officials say the sheer tenacity of the Iraqi fighters has led them to suspect that they may be defending Scud missiles or other illicit weapons.

Whoever made that cynical censorship decision understands that those soldiers may be defending a set of interests at odds with this country and its Constitution, and they need to be kept in the dark about that.

Even more deeply, he may be defending his bravado-on-the-outside-insecure-ego-on-the-inside from thinking, "Wow, if I turn out to be as wrong about this as I thought I was right, maybe I'm wrong about many things or even everything".

At those points, it's not so much that the man believes himself to be right as it's that inwardly he may be defending against feeling that the woman is right and that he has just made a fool out of himself.

Its homeland may be defended by border patrols and nuclear weapons, but its economy is strung out across the globe.

As a result, nocturnal frogs rarely show aposematic coloration, even if they may be defended chemically and show high toxicity," explained Mr Prates in email.

The most recent rulings by the court dictate that race cannot be a predominant factor in the drawing of district lines, but that redistricting plans may be defended on purely partisan grounds, which are often indistinguishable from racial ones.

Holism may be defended by a slippery-slope argument.

Organ harvesting with or without consent may be defended on utilitarian moral grounds.