"defence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Their defence rested now on Baius alone, and it was no small task.
- Ian McEwan's defence of his friend Martin Amis (Letters, November 21) rests on two arguments, which are conflated.
- Stapylton's defence rested on the basis that as Lewis was his slave, his actions were lawful.
- Their defence against murder rests entirely on their disabilities.
- Then the defence of Keithland would rest upon a Dreamweaver's frail and inadequate resources.
- He not only accepted, he became the theorist of, persecution; and his defences were later to be those on which all defences of the Inquisition rested.
- The defence rests its case.
- Lane's defence rested on the lack of evidence about how or where Tegan might have been killed.
- If the defence, he concluded, rested on no solid foundation, then the jury must do their duty to the community at large and by the oath they had sworn.
- Some Anglo investors have been getting restless over the board's conspicuous divisions in recent months, so its defence must rest on two key planks.
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