Defended

//dɪˈfɛndɪd//

"Defended" in a Sentence (16 examples)

The town was defended by a large army.

The dog defended his master from harm.

When attacked he defended himself with an umbrella.

They defended their country against the invaders.

He was respected as a hero because he defended his country against the invaders.

They defended their country.

Our football team defended well.

Johnson defended his policies.

I defended the republic as a young man, I shall not desert it in my old age.

They defended their homeland against the invaders.

For example, in the boreal forest where browsing by hares in winter is an important source of mortality, the juvenile-phase is more defended chemically against browsing by hares in winter than is the conspecific mature-phase (Table 2).

This result corroborates the Hypothesis 2 that the less defended fast-growing species can be replaced over time by more defended slower-growing species.

Understandably, the more extreme the condition, the more defended the family and professionals can be.

If this simpler procedure were adopted in a defended case the cost would be about 29l. if counsel were employed, and about 27l. if no counsel or solicitor were employed.

But only in less than 5% there was a court order in a defended case (Müller-Alten, 1984).

The Court of Appeal used the case to make a strong call for the removal of fault-based grounds, arguably at the expense of deciding in Mrs Owens' favour, and openly acknowledged that a lower threshold for behaviour is used in undefended cases scrutinised by a legal adviser at a divorce centre rather than a judge in a court in a defended case.

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