Sentence examples for without defence from inspiring English sources

In March, 70 opposition party members were tried en masse in one day, many of them without defence lawyers.

The working class cannot remain without political representation, without defence, when all its victories and advances are being destroyed.

For this he was tried (without defence counsel), condemned and, on 8 January 1697, aged just 20 years old, hanged on a gibbet.

Case studies: Victims condemned without defence Nieves's story A Filipino married mother of two, Nieves worked as a secretary at King Fahd National Guard Hospital in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

The enemy, thinking that the town had been entered at that point, abandoned the gates, whereupon, as soon as these were left without defence, Pericles burst into the town.

Some are kind, offering honest insights without defence, or messaging privately to ask genuine questions about veganism.

It is an embrace from God without defences," he said.

That left Britain without defences against a second symptom of misrule, an "epidemic of bad law".

"And then, of course, I have to unravel all the barbed wire from the beaches and blow up all the mines and trust myself to do it without defences, and it's all right".

They are often without defences once they become orphans - abandoned and alone with no one taking care of them and, therefore, prone to becoming victims of abuse, violence, trafficking and other types of exploitation.

In an unprecedented move, David Blunkett, the home secretary, and Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, signed public interest immunity certificates - a device designed to gag courts - without providing evidence to back up the prosecution's case and without the defence having the opportunity to argue against it.