(v. t.) To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
(v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
(v. t.) To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies.
(v. t.) To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(2) "What has made that worse is the disingenuous way the force has defended their actions.
(3) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(4) Joe, meanwhile, defends her right to say "negro" whenever she wants.
(5) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(6) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(7) After an introductory note on primary preventive intervention of breast cancer during adulthood, the author defends and extends a hypothesis that relates most of the known risk factors for this disease to the development of preneoplastic lesions in the breast.
(8) Defendants on legal aid will no longer be able to choose their solicitor.
(9) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(10) In mitigation, Gareth Jones, defending, said: "The first comment [he] wrote was in relation to Fabrice Muamba.
(11) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
(12) The philosopher defended his actions by referring to Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, naturally enough, but it didn't wash with HR.
(13) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
(14) Free speech has protected hate speech, and opponents of censorship have consistantly defended the rights of unscrupulous populists and incendiarists.
(15) "You could understand why I need another central defender," Mourinho said afterwards.
(16) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
(17) Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, a vigorous defender of Israel, called the speech “ill-advised”.
(18) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
(19) "I never expected to get 100 caps and have the reception I did," said the Chelsea defender.
(20) He is shadow home secretary and will have to defend himself.
Uphold
Definition:
(v. t.) To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
(v. t.) To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.
(v. t.) To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as, to uphold a person in wrongdoing.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They were not innocent, non-political children; these were young people who worked to actively uphold multicultural values.
(2) Though Charter 08 mostly called for the Communist party to uphold commitments made in its own constitution it was a coherent and forthright challenge to the party’s rule, calling for peaceful democratic reform.
(3) Its role in keeping the peace, the prevention and detection of crime and upholding the rule of law has been distorted by the primacy given to the colla tion of intelligence by special branch.
(4) The Mormon religion is one of many conservative faith groups upholding theological opposition to same-sex relationships amid widespread social acceptance and the US supreme court’s 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage.
(5) The Alabama supreme court ordered county probate judges to uphold the state ban pending a final ruling by the US supreme court , which hears arguments in April on whether gay couples nationwide have a fundamental right to marry and whether states can ban such unions.
(6) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
(7) For the US and the EU, which claim to uphold principles over interests, this contradictory policy and their silence over the Saudi intervention in Bahrain is particularly harmful.
(8) It challenges the meaning of the union it purports to uphold.
(9) He said Trump would announce his choice for supreme court justice next week and promised it would be someone “who will uphold the God-given liberties enshrined in our constitution in the tradition of the late and great Justice Antonin Scalia”.
(10) David Cameron should scrap a planned vote to reduce the number of MPs by 50, Nick Clegg said as he accused the Conservatives of failing to uphold the coalition agreement on House of Lords reform .
(11) In a time of growing tensions we must uphold our fundamental freedom to worship in the land of religious freedom and its why I choose to be unapologetically Muslim every day.
(12) UN Watch finds it troubling that the UK refuses to deny the London-Riyadh vote-trade as contemplated in the Saudi cable, nor even to reassure the public that their voting complies with the core reform of the UNHRC’s founding resolution, which provides that candidates be chosen based on their human rights record, and that members be those who uphold the highest standards of human rights.” A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokeswoman said: “As is standard practice with all members, we never reveal our voting intentions or the way we vote.
(13) Achievements of the Council and the Court So I want no one here to doubt the British commitment to defending human rights … nor the British understanding that the Council of Europe, the Convention and the Court have played a vital role in upholding those rights.
(14) A source close to Clegg said: "Nick is pretty nonplussed to find himself as the only leading member of the coalition government prepared to uphold the human rights commitments made to Hong Kong by two leading Conservatives – John Major and Chris Patten.
(15) The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), which deals with complaints that have not been settled to a consumer's satisfaction by a lender, is currently receiving up to 400 PPI complaints an hour and upholding seven in 10 cases in the consumer's favour.
(16) Our results point to the possible existence of a mechanism of reproductive compensation serving to uphold the genetic diversity of PI genes.
(17) The result is that society places a high value on conformity and expressions of individuality are frowned upon; there is a strong emphasis on upholding social “norms” and keeping up appearances – in public if not necessarily in private.
(18) Pearson has advocated the separate document since last year, but on Monday made his most emphatic remarks on the subject at the launch of Uphold and Recognise , an organisation “committed both to upholding the Australian constitution and recognising Indigenous Australians”.
(19) A significant part played by poly-unsaturated fatty acids, against the background of moderate protein loads (up to 3.0-4.0 g per kg of the child's body weight per day) in upholding the calcium homeostasis is suggested.
(20) These “temporary exclusion orders” appear to be a neat solution; by offering suspected jihadi fighters strict conditions on return, the government is upholding its primary duty to protect the public while maintaining its commitments in international law which say it must not create stateless beings.