The defense should prevail, but it is not easy.
This was excellent play, but careful defense would have prevailed.
East won the opening club lead and the defense would have prevailed if he had shifted to a heart.
Whether their defenses, or the new attacks designed by criminals, will prevail remains to be seen.
The defense would have prevailed after a spade or a heart return, but East did not do this.
Mississippi did most of these things tonight, but Arizona's power and defense prevailed in the end.
If East had led a club after taking the diamond ace, the defense would have prevailed.
The defense would have prevailed after a spade lead, but West had no reason to select that.
Of those, the state won 12 and the defense prevailed in three.
It might seem that the defense could prevail by leading the club ace originally.