Sentence examples for stage to defend from inspiring English sources

"We have never sought, at any stage, to defend the failures of [South Yorkshire police] or its officers.

She accused Sanders of attacking not just her but the man who wasn't on stage to defend himself: President Obama.

Jacques Vergès, the French lawyer who embraced anticolonial causes and the role of devil's advocate on a world stage to defend war criminals, terrorists, dictators and other notorious villains of the 20th century, died on Thursday in Paris.

There are still a few antiwar groups (not all of them pacifist) — the War Resisters League, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Albert Einstein Institution — but hardly any serious public figures take the stage to defend their views.

Immediately following each unpleasant new announcement, Cleggsy Bear shuffles on stage to defend it, working his sad eyes and boyish face as he morosely explains why the decision was inevitable – and not just inevitable, but fair; in fact possibly the fairest, most reasonable decision to have been taken in our lifetimes, no matter how loudly people scream to the contrary.

Joey Chestnut popped the question before going on stage to defend his title in Coney Island.

Investment bankers Bill Hambrecht and Clayton Christensen took to the Disrupt SF stage today to defend the concepts of disruption and to address the ways the Valley predicted the future of financial services and technology.

On stage, he tried to defend his 2005 vote in favor of such immunity by saying it was made out of concern for "small mom-and-pop gunshops".

When Steve Jobs took the stage on Friday to defend the iPhone 4 against criticism that it had reception problems, he made his feelings about the press abundantly, peevishly clear.

Its team, the Springboks, reaches a vital stage in preparing to defend the rugby World Cup it won in 2007 as it opens the Tri-Nations championship this year in New Zealand on Saturday.

The Algarve event set the stage for the United States to defend its Olympic gold medal at the London Games.