Sentence examples for theory defense from inspiring English sources

Investigators concluded that Mr. Khadr threw the grenade — a theory defense lawyers reject.

Lions, 26-20 New Orleans (1-3) at Chicago (1-4) The Saints are blowing up the theory that defense wins championships and that a sound defensive team is a winning team.

Self-defense theory, an affirmative defense, introduces a whole new set of considerations.

Alarmed by the official persecution, Prof. Chancellor evolved a theory of defense.

What interested him in Freud was the theory of defense mechanisms: rationalization, displacement, the whole arsenal of self-justification.

The theory the defense put forth was that that one of those beams gave way, starting the sequence that led the slings to burst.

"I think Hasan realized early on that once his distorted theory of defense was rejected, he had nothing to present or offer," said Geoffrey S. Corn, a former Army prosecutor who is a professor at the South Texas College of Law in Houston.

It's surprising that some enterprising Congressperson hasn't put a stop to what might be construed as blatant Communist propaganda, but one could always cite the "Shostakovich as dissident" theory in defense.

Despite suggestions that Congress was validating the theory, its defense authorization bill in 2000 included a provision that would absolve Admiral Husband Kimmel and General Walter Short, the military commanders at Pearl Harbor, of any blame for Japan's attack, declaring that they were not "provided necessary and critical intelligence that would have alerted them to prepare for the attack".

In theory, playing defense and hustling are also things that he is paid to do, and in the fall of 2003 the new management, convinced that Ramirez's twenty-million-dollar salary was an albatross, placed their best hitter on irrevocable waivers, asking nothing in return for any team's willingness simply to take him (and his contract) off their hands.

There were various theories, better defense being the most prominent.