Sentence examples for native defenders from inspiring English sources

The force reached Rabaul on 11 September 1914 and occupied it the next day, encountering only brief resistance from the German and native defenders during fighting at Bita Paka and Toma.

The first Syrian tank damaged near Degania Alef's gates, which has been preserved on the location, was the subject of a historiographic dispute when Baruch "Burke" Bar-Lev, a retired IDF colonel and one of Degania's native defenders at the time, claimed that he was the one who stopped the tank with a Molotov cocktail.

The United States was represented at the draw by Sundhage, who will coach a first-round game against her native Sweden, and defender Ali Krieger, who plays for the German club F.F.C. Frankfurt in the women's Bundesliga.

Their choice to play for the United States mildly assuages the disappointment at losing players like striker Giuseppe Rossi (born in New Jersey) to his father's native Italy and defender Neven Subotic (born in Serbia, grew up in the United States) to his homeland.

Zealous defenders of native species used to advertise "syccie bashing" events, getting people together to remove this "invasive alien".

Roberto Espinoza, a lawyer for Aidesep, Peru's inter-ethnic association for the development of the Peruvian Rainforest, believes it has raised the international profile of native Amazonians as climate defenders.

KAHEA, an alliance of environmentalists and defenders of native Hawaiian culture, bemoans the pollution caused by the cruise ships and the risk posed by the tourist hordes to creatures such as the dark-rumped petrel and the Oahu tree snail, or to plants like the Marsilea villosa fern.

Looking at Matthiessen today - an artist, a Buddhist, an environmental activist and a defender of native American rights - it is perhaps surprising to learn that his roots are in the heart of the American establishment.

The Sweden Democrats are winning voters ― including some on the left ― by casting themselves not as part of a global movement that wants to build walls but merely as defenders of native-born Swedes.

The club Thursday added the defender and New Jersey native Jonathan Borrajo and has nearly completed the signing of the Swedish central defender Markus Holgersson.

Much of the horses' range belongs to the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge, and defenders of the native habitat fear the herd's current size strains the ecosystem.