Sentence examples for the defenceless from inspiring English sources

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the defenceless

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Without defence; undefended.

  • Blind, deaf, and paralysed, the old man was defenceless

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We'd take a stand against injustice, fight for what we really believe in, defend the defenceless.

Their language used to be aggressive and emotional, the emphasis upon the defenceless unborn foetus.

It was just too easy for the unscrupulous to bludgeon the defenceless.

And both balk at the plan for tax cuts aimed at the better off while the defenceless are being punished.

To blow to pieces those going to work by public transport is to attack, in shameful stealth, the defenceless.

On one side, there are the snarling rightwing media and politicians, and on the other, the defenceless public broadcasters.

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By a dramatic sleight of hand, Mamet also shows the pathetically defenceless student of the first half turning into the vindictive accuser of the second.

How not to reduce government spending (Fairfax) "If screwing the politically defenceless is the best you can do to control government spending you're never going to make it.

A camp has sprouted up to accommodate the stranded, who live in shelters of plastic sheeting or simply out in the open, defenceless against the seasonal rains.

Astonishingly, the impossible now looked possible, the Russian defenceless as Balboa searched for the decisive punch.

It conveyed the disdain of the new Israelis – so proud of their muscularity and their newly acquired power of self-determination – for the powerless, defenceless Jews of the diaspora.

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