Sentence examples for spoke to defend from inspiring English sources

No one spoke to defend Trump — and everyone took turns condemning him.

Wednesday chairman Milan Mandaric also spoke to defend his decision to sack lifelong Owls fan Megson, who had guided the side to a derby win against Sheffield United on Sunday before his dismissal.

Even if they admitted that it was a far from ideal strategy, many I spoke to defended the government's actions as a necessary act of deterrence, an effective show of strength.

I realise I may be starting an international incident by criticizing your beloved National Paste (every Aussie I spoke to defended it as if it was their birth mother) but I'd reckon that the taste of dead convicts' feet is preferable to this vile yeasty sludge.

He was unable to speak, to defend himself.

Unable to speak to defend himself, Billy strikes Claggart, who falls dead.

"On Sunday, my father asked the judge to let him speak to defend himself after his lawyers wrapped up the case.

Again he insists on one's freedom, theologically speaking, to defend either unicity or plurality of forms in human beings, especially at Paris, but does not commit himself definitively to either side (PB 2.197 211).

None of the people he spoke to would defend the current system.

On 7 January, Phylicia Rashad, who played his wife Claire Huxtable on the Cosby Show, spoke to Showbiz411 to defend her former co-star, calling it an "orchestrated" destruction of Cosby's legacy.

Just as the world spoke up to defend free speech in Paris, we should now speak up to protect the rights of these clerics who stand up against ISIS's corrosive message of hate and violence.