Sentence examples for successful defence from inspiring English sources

Barcelona came close alongside a successful defence of La Liga.

Johnnie Cochran, notorious for his successful defence of O.J.Simpson, is one of them.

And Labour can regard its successful defence of finely balanced marginals as gutsy and significant triumphs.

A successful defence could be claimed as a victory, a strategy successfully practised by the British army, notably at Dunkirk.

There will need to be an improvement if they are to mount a successful defence of their Olympic title.

A successful defence of the pennant is not quite confirmed – but it's only a matter of time.

Perhaps a successful defence was always a bridge too far after the ankle injury which has disrupted his year.

AS MILITARY epics go, Hitler's lightning assault on Moscow in June 1941 and the desperate but successful defence of the Russian capital that winter can hardly be matched.

The best lawyers that tobacco money could buy have until recently mounted a remarkably successful defence of the companies against the claims of individuals suing for damages.

It was merely the southern states' successful "defence of an inherent, inalienable right to withdraw from a union into which they had, as sovereign states, voluntarily entered".

One reason is his successful defence of Avandia, a blockbuster diabetes drug that had threatened to go the way of Vioxx.