"defense" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Our emotional defenses snap into action when it comes to a divorce or a disease but not for lesser problems.
- On Monday the President offered an emotional defense of his wife.
- To some, the furor was not just an emotional defense of neighborhood schools.
- In all the world there had never been a man armed as he was with mental, physical, emotional, neural and molecular defenses.
- His analysis, which spanned data from the men's college years to their 60's, examined the emotional defenses each man favored at different points of life.
- It was an almost impenetrable emotional defense she had developed in the course of her years as an institutionalized orphan.
- The force of the man's present frustration must be battering against her emotional defenses.
- He made no objection, but she could sense him building up the emotional defense.
- He hung up and thought of the nurse's scientific jargon, recognizing that it was an emotional defense.
- Muskie made an emotional defense of his wife in a speech outside the newspaper's offices during a snowstorm.
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