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Defend
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Defend meaning
To ward off attacks against; to fight to protect; to guard. | To support by words or writing; to vindicate, talk in favour of. | To make legal defence of; to represent (the accused).
Example sentences (20)
Friedman leaves out America’s military costs to fight the war to defend South Vietnam, the war to defend South Korea, the war to defend Afghanistan, and the costs of defending Western Europe and Japan during the Cold War.
We are speaking because we have a responsibility to defend our students, defend our institutions, and defend higher education in Connecticut.
A country can defend itself if its citizens love their homeland and are ready to defend it in trouble rather than fleeing from it, Orbán said in an interview.
He urged his supporters to behave with respect but added they should be “prepared to defend if they need to defend”.
I wanted to help give a window into the human condition of why people do what they do or defend what they defend.
They want a strong Israel, an Israel that can defend itself and can also help defend them.
Yet, in watching Atlas defend his brother the way he had always someone to defend him as a child offered a different kind of insight.
As expected, Defend means that the pawn is far more likely to defend against oncoming damage from the front, though it costs a small amount of stamina to do this.
I defend freedom of speech the same way I defend the freedom to respond to it.
If the thin blue line can no longer defend them, it seems they must defend themselves.
In 2013, as California’s attorney general, she to the U.S. Supreme Court explaining why she wouldn’t defend Proposition 8, which banned marriage equality in the state: “I declined to defend Proposition 8 because it violates the Constitution.
The President reiterated Pakistan’s resolve to defend its sovereignty, uphold peace, prosperity, and stability, and defend the motherland at all costs.
They are still fighting, unfaltering in their determination to defend their country and defend the principles of freedom and democracy.
We want to defend with resilience, defend hard.
Certainly, the receivers carrying the ball is something that you’ve got to defend, but there’s a lot of other things you’ve got to defend, too.
While the Company would assess the merits of each legal proceeding and defend the Company accordingly, it may be required to incur significant expenses or devote significant resources to defend against such legal proceedings.
Although Darkness is a masochist who doesn't waste even a single opportunity where she can throw her body to 'defend' those around her, a part of her really does value everyone in the party, and thus, feels an obligation to defend them no matter what.
Here’s the statement: “It’s unfortunate Democrats can’t defend the border and defend the country at the same time.
However, he later went of to defend his mistake and released a statement which said: 'I am not going to try to attempt to defend this video, it is something I am not proud of.
So they can’t defend basic conservatism because Trump is implementing it, and they so despise Trump for whatever inane reasons that they can’t even defend what they always have believed!