Sentence examples for ordered to defend from inspiring English sources

Tens of thousands of troops were ordered to defend the government and embassy district.

Operation Thunderclap, the proposed breakout plan for the desperate Sixth Army, is vetoed by Hitler, and Paulus is ordered to defend Stalingrad to the last.

When he was ordered to defend Baghdad, he melted away during the night of shock and awe on March 21, and went home to await the peace.

She cited the case of a student ordered to defend himself against deportation because the government suspected his visa had lapsed.

Navarre, ordered to defend nearby Laos, chose the site by placing his best battalions at Dien Bien Phu, a distant valley not far from the Laotian border in northwest Vietnam - never imagining that Giap would fight there.

Mr. Chang said he was ordered to defend Lima Site 258, one of dozens of mountaintop landing strips that the C.I.A. used to hopscotch around the country with supplies and men.

Now it is devising ways to squeeze the banks in order to defend society.

One does not have to support illegal activity in order to defend intrusive reporting.

Bloom assails relativism, then, in order to defend a way of life that relativism undermines.

"We will act, and are acting, in order to defend Israeli citizens".

"Myth No. 3," he writes, "Russia started the war in order to defend its peacekeepers".