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.