Sentence examples for powerful defence from inspiring English sources

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's powerful defence secretary, growls that Tamil Nadu dictates policy to feeble Delhi.

Yet what Ibsen actually creates is a powerful defence of Christian idealism.

Ivo Vegter, citing Snyman and others, mounts a powerful defence using plenty of data – despite his own dislike of hunting.

Justices Breyer and Sotomayor, in particular, used questions to give an astute and powerful defence of the law.

The air conditioner is a powerful defence mechanism against the heat, used by climate change believers and sceptics alike.

Fort Grant, once the most powerful defence complex in the world, is now a causeway for joggers and strollers.

They have thrown their energies into building up ever more powerful defences.

As war approached, Livonia had a weak administration subject to internal rivalries, lacked any powerful defences or outside support, and was surrounded by monarchies pursuing expansionist policies.

Non-bluffing (aposematic) displays occur in mammals which possess powerful defences such as spines or stink glands, and which habitually warn off potential predators rather than attempting escape by running.

Egypt's ultra-powerful defence ministry was also visited for a briefing session.

Three powerful ministries – defence, home affairs and border affairs – are filled by members of the defence services, or Tatmadaw.