Sentence examples for of defences from inspiring English sources

"At that point it becomes about retreat [from cities], not engineering of defences".

You can read any number of defences of Christian ideas.

At that moment, he appeared all out of defences.

Johnson has a variety of defences for this long-written record.

Pistorius's "plethora of defences", as Masipa described them, obey the logic of the unconscious, each one cancelling out the next.

He thought she was an intruder, he said, offering up the flimsiest of defences for the indefensible.

He says he will "have a couple of defences and then I'll probably call it a day".

Still, some of Mr Bush's officials talk airily of defences on land, at sea, in the air, even in space.

Around £23m of defences were completed in June in the Northumberland town of Morpeth after major floods in 2008 and 2012 wrought devastation.

Predator-prey relationships can give rise to an "evolutionary arms race" where prey species develop a variety of defences that protect them from their predators.

But it was City who acquired Sterling and, after a ton of goals and the weekly shredding of defences, by Christmas that price will seem a bargain.