Sentence examples for standard defence from inspiring English sources

Europe's standard defence against dumping is retaliatory tariffs.

The standard defence of the status quo is Johnson's "something-or-nothing" argument.

Yes, she said, and gave me the standard defence argument: lack of DNA evidence, no motive, no history of crime or violence.

I argued that the standard defence that religion and science deal with different questions – how and why respectively – often doesn't work because in practice many of those religious "whys" involve claims about the "hows" too.

As his good friend Bob Diamond, long prominent among the Chums of Boris, prepared to be grilled by MPs, London's Mayor used Wednesday's monthly question time session to mount a tailored version of his now standard defence of his dealings with powerful people dragged under dark clouds.

A standard defence of radical re-imaginings of novels for stage or screen is that the original book continues to survive alongside the new version; and perhaps such sanguinity can also be applied to the reworking of scripts created for the stage.

The standard defences, such as antivirus programs, firewalls, spam filters and intrusion detectors will stop most of those attacks reaching their target - be that a person, a computer or a database.

The standard Salmon defence is that he has done a "fantastic job at the most difficult time".

10.45am BST Robert Fox, the London Evening Standard's defence editor, was just interviewed about the lifting of the arms embargo on BBC News.

"As firms start to close or cut corners to keep afloat we'll see plummeting standards of defence and miscarriages of justice.

"A centre-right-wing perspective, a belief in a small state, yet a published (in my book Bog-Standard Britain) defence of Reithian values and of the BBC's "top end" – views echoed only last week by Lord Patten, when he told the Beeb not to be ashamed of high culture.