Sentence examples for mount a defence from inspiring English sources

Mr Xu and his lawyers declined to mount a defence, decrying the proceedings as nothing more than theatre.

Lawyers are given precious little money to hire investigators and support staff in order to mount a defence.

Not because it is self-evidently true, but because we don't even have to mount a defence.

Sir Howard is allowed to mount a defence but Gordon Brown and Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, get short shrift.

Called the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act, it has never been used in this sort of case.S&P says it will mount a defence.

Clearly, he has to mount a defence of taxes that do not inhibit growth, such as inheritance taxes, by making those taxes fairer.

The onus of mounting a defence, though, would be on the Independent.

Minimal sounds pleasingly like Kraftwerk mounting a defence of the Turner prize.

The greater challenge for any writer is mounting a defence of compromise.

Then Wishbone shows up and mounting a defence is much harder.

With pressure escalating this week amid new revelations, Kirkbride had mounted a defence this morning.