"defend" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Several times he even said Brazil was merely defending its own interests.
- They have said they were merely defending themselves and did the least damage possible to the man.
- Legal Services lawyers thus do not merely defend, for instance, individual installment debtors.
- My man was merely defending himself from their unprovoked attack.
- If faculty merely defended their own turf, they could have a significant impact.
- He suspects that many of those who invoke the Enlightenment are merely defending a conservative order.
- He was merely defending "the basic American principle of separation of church and state."
- Strawberry said, he had been grabbed from behind and was merely defending himself.
- You didn't instigate the attack, you merely defended yourself and us.
- But Maniakes remained convinced he could not win by merely defending.
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