Example sentences of "[verb] defend [pron] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is entitled to complain that it has to defend itself against attacks from an equally uneasy fusion of Daily Telegraph Toryism and free-market radicalism — so that it gets criticised both for going downmarket , and for not going far enough downmarket . |
| 2 | In Chapter 5 we saw how natural philosophers , such as Boyle , tried to defend themselves against charges of encouraging materialistic atheism by suggesting that , since the natural world is God 's creation , the study of it leads towards , not away from , things spiritual . |
| 3 | There they were , crawling on one tiny planet , not knowing why they were there : all in the same boat — why did they need to defend themselves against each other ? |
| 4 | While the duped adversary prepared to defend himself against the apparently raised weapon , the student 's left hand would draw the upside-down dagger from his belt and plunge it into his rival 's stomach . |
| 5 | ‘ They enjoy defending themselves against enemies . |
| 6 | Even if reinforced , UN peacekeepers are not deployed or armed to defend themselves against concerted attack . |
| 7 | Less persuasively , a people which has had to defend itself against an enduring hostility is shown , for the most part , as free from fear , and , in particular , from the fear that exceeds and mistakes its objects . |
| 8 | According to the National Consumer Council 's report Ordinary Justice ( 1989 ) , from which these figures are taken , few attended the court hearing to defend themselves against the claims . |
| 9 | Classicism is now forced to defend itself against the onslaught of a disruptive non-classical culture with the result that the contemporary cultural sphere has polarised into two competing ideological positions which , for the sake of clarity , have been tabulated in Table 6.1 . |
| 10 | The British Field Sports Society is preparing to defend itself against another attempt in parliament to impose a ban on hunting . |
| 11 | In practising a form , the student is taught to defend himself against a series of imaginary opponents . |
| 12 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |
| 13 | Words with which he hoped to defend himself against imagined conspiracies , actual confession , real Guilts , and words that would too explicitly , too protestingly deny too much of the substance of his own present thoughts as he looked at the girl and his own former behaviour with many , many more of her kind . |
| 14 | Later in the session Noell had to defend himself against accusations of having made an illicit profit out of transporting captured Irish , Scottish , and English Royalist soldiers , political prisoners , and convicted criminals to Barbados ; he denied not the facts of such transportation but the allegations of cruelty and profiteering arising therefrom . |
| 15 | About 1146 Adam became canon of the cathedral of Paris ; as such he took part in the Paris synod of 1147 , presided over by Pope Eugenius III , at which Gilbert of Poitiers had to defend himself against charges of heretical doctrines concerning the nature of God and the Trinity . |
| 16 | The episode marked more problems for the IAAF president , Primo Nebiolo , who on Thursday had to defend himself against accusations that news of Johnson 's positive test had been deliberately delayed in an effort not to cast a cloud over the Toronto event . |
| 17 | At first sight it might seem that Urban was hardly in a position to provide it ; he was without military resources of his own , and depended on such allies as he had to defend him against the Emperor Henry IV , who still refused to recognize him as pope . |
| 18 | In both cases the ego seeks to defend itself against a passive relation to the superego and , in its manic symptoms , succeeds in convincing itself that it has been successful . |
| 19 | Many governments round the world say that they spend a lot of money on military equipment because they need to defend themselves against other countries that might try to take over their territory . |
| 20 | Middleton and Bayles attempted to defend themselves against the allegations , but the 1846 Report mentions the Examiners ' surprise at " the gross ignorance of the boys in divinity " . |