Sentence examples for sole defence from inspiring English sources

Now, the sole defence of Hinkley from its apologists concerns the cost of cancellation, in jobs, sunk costs wasted, Foreign Office embarrassment and a hole in government energy policy.

The party's solution was to try to persuade its people that a party that had just turned its guns on the students was the sole defence against a west that had long conspired to sabotage China.

That underlined it is not always easy to break down a packed, well-drilled defence whose sole aim is to keep the score down.

The British military presence was withdrawn in 1994, and border security became the sole responsibility of the Belize Defence Force, which had been created in 1978.

Sudan is one of the most oppressive countries in the world and while opposition groups, including the youth activists Girifna, are very active online the government has mobilised an online defence force whose sole purpose is to troll them and spread pro-government propaganda.

The only government-organised event was a wreath laying ceremony at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, with a single band, Prince Charles the only representative of the royal family and the defence secretary, John Reid, as the sole representative of the government.

Instead, NATO can reassert its historic role as the sole plausible vehicle for common European defence.

Labour said the report underlined Nato's position as the "cornerstone" of UK defence policy and the "sole organisation for collective defence".

McMahon said the party would have to redefine its relationship with the IRA and declare sole allegiance to one army, the Irish Defence Forces, to enter a government.

However, the group and its many defenders mounted a strong defence, detailing its financial history and saying that their sole aim was to highlight a dreadful and ongoing human rights cause that had garnered little attention for decades.

The Lord's tower is a secure, private set of rooms, probably intended for the sole use of the Lord and his family, and with its own lines of defence.