Sentence examples for previous defence from inspiring English sources

His previous defence of the crackdown, he claims, was scripted for him, and it is "only a matter of time" before Beijing declassifies files showing who was responsible.

With the previous defence minister, Igor Sergeyev, he had clashed over the role of the strategic missile forces, commanded by one of his rivals.

Launching  the document, the Prime Minister said the world was "more dangerous and uncertain" than five years ago at the time of the previous defence review.

Defending a defence policy ReprintsCamilo Ospina, the new minister, was the president's legal adviser and, like his predecessor, has no previous defence experience.

Where previous defence reviews since the cold war have tended to trim the supposed fat of the armed services, Mr Hoon began orthopaedic surgery.

The Jewish Chronicle's political editor, Martin Bright, had conducted an interview with Kaminski in Manchester which appeared to blow much of the previous defence of him by the magazine's own editor, Pollard, out of the water.

"Its concerns about our previous missile defence programmes were entirely unfounded," he said.

Burns, 29, also suffered the cancellation of his previous title defence when opponent Liam Walsh was forced to withdraw after a car crash.

Maria Ludkin, legal director of the GMB union, which is involved in multiple legal actions against Uber, said the ECJ decision would have significant consequences across a series of court challenges, undermining the Californian company's previous legal defences.

In contrast, one-third (33.3%) of women reported previous self-defence training.

One-third (33.3%) of women had previous self-defence training, but few (4.0%) had previous sexual assault education.