Sentence examples for preferred to defend from inspiring English sources

Yahoo said it would have preferred to defend the deal in court.

The Kentucky militiamen generally preferred to defend their homes by staying closer to Kentucky rather than making a long and potentially perilous expedition to Detroit.

Now, I thought the movie was pretty drab and fairly distasteful, and I would have preferred to defend freedom of speech by watching countless other, more engaging movies.

They prefer to defend the integrity of the system.

His critics say that he prefers to defend companies, especially big "national champions", rather than consumers.

It was also seen as a victory by Benedict over factions in the hierarchy who would prefer to defend the Vatican's sovereignty, versus those who wanted more openness.

Rather than accept any form of panpsychism indeed he does not consider the option at all Kim prefers to defend physicalism by returning us to the days of reductive materialism; he sees no other way to avoid the charge that mental properties are epiphenomenal.

They see little reason to hide behind white hoods, violence or clandestine meetings, and prefer to defend their views openly and intellectually.

I prefer to act  to defend peoples".

In practice this can be controversial because there will always be people whose rights we would prefer not to defend.

Stone was referred to by the court as "Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell" and was asked if she wanted to defend herself; she preferred to address the assembly off the record after adjournment, saying "...With my own teeth I would tear open my veins and let the earth drink my blood, rather than wear the chains of slavery.