Sentence examples for ought to defend from inspiring English sources

"I suppose she feels she ought to defend it".

And I don't see why conservatives ought to defend a system that permits securitizing mortgages (or car loans) in a way that seems to make the lenders almost unaccountable for the risk while spreading it, toxically, everywhere else.

We met such a utilitarian theory of rights above in John Stuart Mill's conceptualization of rights as "something which society ought to defend me in the possession of".

Mill believed that society ought to defend the individual in possession of her rights because doing so would bring about the greatest utility summed across the members of that society.

Through history many have asserted, for example, that God has the right to command man; yet presumably no one asserting such a right would maintain that society ought to defend God in the possession of anything.

They ought to defend the rights of white working-class folks".

Ted Shaw ought be able to defend his ancestor.

"Freedom of speech ought to be defended and celebrated in Riyadh just as much as anywhere else in the world, and we'd like to see KAUST issuing a statement in support of Raif Badawi.

That ought to hold them".

The battle to defend choice ought to include protection for the providers willing to put their jobs and lives on the line.

8 John Hartson was right to say on MOTD2 that Ferguson ought not to be trying to defend Rooney's action, though wrong to say the issue is not about Rooney.