Sentence examples for with its defence from inspiring English sources

Historians have played an important role in recent tobacco litigation, helping the industry with its defence of "common knowledge" and "open controversy".

It was the fourth time Russia had blocked a security council resolution on Syria, consistent with its defence of President Bashar al-Assad and his government from serious pressure or censure.

The company has retained the services of no fewer than three investment banks Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Rothschild to help with its defence strategy.Even if the merger goes ahead, and the combined company secures the €1.6 billion in pre-tax annual cost savings that Sanofi's managers expect, the outlook for the industry is rocky.

Moscow staged a show of defiance on Monday, with its defence ministry hinting that MH17 had been shot down by a Ukrainian warplane shadowing it – a suggestion immediately denied as "irresponsible and false" by the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, who insisted that all the country's air force had been on the ground hundreds of miles away at the time the airliner was shot down.

In an earlier statement, Nato said ministers would speak to acting Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsia about ways to support Ukraine with its defence reforms.

In a report published on Friday the cross-party group of MPs welcomed the "progress" the MoD had made in "getting to grips" with its defence budget and military equipment costs.

Pressure from the courts and lawyers to release information has forced British intelligence to reveal more than it would have liked and, with its defences breached, going on the offensive and speaking more publicly to defend itself has become a more urgent priority.

It is, perhaps, to the now unrewarded resolution which the city displayed in 1936, with its defences unorganised, an enemy without and traitors within, that the war owes its length.

Oscar Choi, an analyst at Citigroup, has visited Wanda Plaza malls in cities large and small; he was impressed by how efficiently they were run, and their pulling-power among local consumers.All this is helping the group with its defences against the spread of e-commerce, which is hitting many Chinese shops hard.

With its defences weakened, subsequent Commonwealth attacks on the ridge were successful; Operation Totalize finally managed to wrest the position from its SS defenders on 8 August.

The new cuts, which will cost the company £120m, come on top of about 1,000 indirect job losses that happened last year, along with several hundred within its defence business.