Sentence examples for qualified defence from inspiring English sources
Tusk echoes this qualified defence of trade deal.
He also made a strong, if qualified, defence of Pope Pius XII, who led the church during the second world war.
Balotelli did not touch the ball in the opposition penalty area during Liverpool's Champions League defeat to Basel on Wednesday, but his manager offered a qualified defence.
Peter Robinson, the First Minister and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, startled many people by making a qualified defence of the preacher.
About half of all trials for traffic offences in the survey took place without a qualified defence lawyer, while 23 per cent of defendants sentenced for a range of offences including assault and burglary did not have legal representation.
Obama dismissed Russian arguments on Crimea, countering Moscow's claims that ethnic Russians in Ukraine had to be protected, saying there could be no parallels between Kosovo and Crimea, and also offering a qualified defence of US policy in Iraq.
Contrary to the Guardian's joke, he is better qualified for defence than Mr Hoon.
Solicitors acting for your paper say that, as the article was in the public interest, it might be defensible under a Reynolds qualified privilege defence; here "meaning" is not an issue but you and the journalist would be cross-examined on how responsible the journalism was if it goes to trial.
Whereas AcI Actinobacteria have been qualified as defence specialists (Salcher, 2014) due to their small cell size that protects them from grazing (Jezbera et al., 2006; Šimek et al., 2006), Betaproteobacteria and particularly the fast-growing R-BT subgroup were associated to an opportunistic lifestyle with resource specialization and high vulnerability to predation (Salcher, 2014).
They would have been advised that the only available defence was qualified privilege.
At times it has hinged on little more than semantic argument over whether the conflict was "war" (were the Aboriginal fighters guerrilla warriors?) and whether the locally raised militias, police and British military units qualified as an Australian defence force.
