Sentence examples for the only defence from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, bitterness is the only defence.

The only defence is basic hygiene – wash your hands.

Shea butter is the only defence, use it generously.

"The only defence people ever give Moyes is that he needs time," says Andrew.

"Worse, such an approach suggests that the only defence is individual protective equipment, which is inaccessible to the general population.

The only defence the firms would have would be to argue such an order is not "reasonable".

Long periods of military rule, when the courts were the civilians' only defence against the soldiers, boosted the relative power of the judiciary while weakening the politicians.

It puts you in command of a single aspect of the first, last and only defence against the scum of the universe, while your largely inept friends struggle to deal with their own roles in protecting the planet.

It was the publication by Penguin in 1960 of a full – and cheap – paperback edition that sparked a prosecution under the previous year's Obscene Publications Act, against which the publisher's only defence was literary merit.

One female mink – small enough to penetrate the vole's only defence, its underwater burrows – can virtually wipe out a population of water voles.

Grigory Yavlinsky, a liberal politician, argues that the Kremlin is trying to appeal to nationalist instincts but also to portray itself as the country's only defence against them.