Sentence examples for splendid defence from inspiring English sources
Here he delivers something quite different: a splendid defence of preciousness and etiquette, a rallying cry for the importance of aesthetics even in prison, even in exile.
The mayor thanked the country's ruling forefathers for their foresight in building such splendid defences.
"The defence was magnificent.
Mexico's flasher tendencies - I did mention, didn't I, that they have a penchant for exposing themselves - were exploited expertly, as their disparate defence was dissected with a splendid pas from midfield.
And Sarries extended their lead as Richard Wigglesworth threaded a precise grubber kick through the on-rushing Edinburgh defence to leave Ashton in splendid isolation as he touched down for the first try of the afternoon.
Laura Trott began the defence of her omnium title in splendid style and leads the multi-discipline event at the halfway point.
This was an 11th hour move and if it had not been for the government, Locog and the ministry of defence we would not have had this splendid Olympic Games," Vaz told the BBC.
In an absurd defence against two Wall Street corporate raiders (who glower with splendid 1980s menace from one of the book's illustrations), Sotheby's, an institution that had thrived on flogging the contents of English ancestral homes to Americans, was cast as a glorious part of the national heritage.
More recently, he actually served as defence secretary during a war: the one in the Gulf, in 1991.Mr Bush has borrowed this splendid curriculum vitae to provide himself with some surrogate gravitas and instant credibility in foreign affairs.
