What's the difference between indefensive and unprotected?
Indefensive
Definition:
(a.) Defenseless.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week has exposed the indefensibility of weapons sales so clearly that the need for a suspension seems undeniable, except to the government.
(2) He also criticised the "indefensible" length of time families of the victims had had to wait for an inquest to be held.
(3) Whilst so much time, energy and resource has been spent defending and analysing the indefensible, from a woman's perspective, Rome has quietly burned down.
(4) In what is a credit to his integrity (although not his humanity), Walker held firm to his extremist position: “I believe that that is an unborn child that’s in need of protection out there, and I’ve said many a time that that unborn child can be protected, and there are many other alternatives that can also protect the life of that mother.” It’s is almost impossible to overstate how radical and indefensible Walker’s position is.
(5) We believe, as such, that these actions are unnecessary and indefensible, not to mention commercially questionable and potentially damaging to YouTube itself, given the harm likely to result from this approach.” Contacted by The Guardian overnight, YouTube provided this response: "YouTube provides a global platform for artists to connect with fans and generate revenue for their music," said a spokesperson.
(6) The politician, who heads the government department responsible for children's services and who was himself adopted as a child, said: "Rotherham's reasons for denying this family the chance to foster are indefensible.
(7) Lakoff and Johnson wrote out the most pervasive metaphors like this: GOOD IS UP; BAD IS DOWN (“We hit a peak last year, but it’s been downhill ever since”) ARGUMENT IS WAR (“Your claims are indefensible”) IDEAS ARE FOOD (“We shouldn’t spoonfeed our students”) UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING (“Let me point something out to you.
(8) Since 2001, when the Bush administration bluntly told Islamabad it must take sides, be either "for us or agin us" in the newly declared "war on terror", Pakistan has struggled under a plethora of imperious American demands, démarches and impositions that are at once politically indefensible and contrary to the perceived national interest.
(9) Didn't he realise what he was doing on his computer was unbelievably dangerous, and indefensible?
(10) Physician care was considered defensible in 62% of the cases and indefensible in 25% of the cases, in almost half of which the physician admitted error.
(11) If the allegations are true they are so serious and so fundamental to how the press operates in this country that it becomes indefensible."
(12) Phil Shiner, solicitor at Public Interest Lawyers , said: "[This] has confirmed that the government's plan to deny legal aid to claimants other than those who are classed as 'lawfully resident' in the UK for 12 months was unjust and indefensible.
(13) You need a Reagan.” For the conservative blogger Erick Erickson, the key is rediscovering the party’s moral compass after many defended the indefensible in Trump.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest McKinney police chief Greg Conley says the actions of Corporal Eric Casebolt were ‘indefensible’ Maurice Gray, whose wife and five children were at the party, said he is “hoping this will heal the neighborhood, the officer doing the right thing”.
(15) When other broadcasters either provide their content for free or allow subscribers to build their own package of channels, the approach of compelling people to buy the whole shebang via a tax is becoming indefensible.
(16) Pension parity for all After today's verdict John Markham, director of UK parliamentary affairs for the ICBP, said: "The ruling is completely indefensible and will leave half a million pensioners facing the possibility of destitution.
(17) But it can withdraw from this fight comforted by the fact that the banks have (finally) now recognised that they were trying to defend the indefensible.
(18) The YouTube video by Sunny Hundal which reveals the gentle nature by which we hold our displays serves to emphasise that abortion is indefensible.
(19) I condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms.” – UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon “The shelling of a UN facility, that is housing innocent civilians who are fleeing violence, is totally unacceptable and totally indefensible.” – White House spokesman Josh Earnest “ The world stands disgraced ” – Pierre Krähenbühl, commissioner-general of UNRWA IDF Comment: “Regarding the UNRWA facility in Jabaliya, we have determined that an exchange of fire, including mortar fire, did indeed take place in the vicinity of the school.” Additional: “All available evidence points to Israeli artillery as the cause – Ban Ki-moon Damage “likely to have come from heavy artillery not designed for precision use … [the IDF] provided no evidence of [militant] activity and no explanation for the strike beyond saying that Palestinian militants were firing about 200 yards away.” – New York Times investigation .
(20) How this happened is still unclear, but justice secretary Chris Grayling has said the allegations represent something "wholly indefensible and unacceptable".
Unprotected
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The facts are that the vulnerable children of this country remain largely unprotected.
(2) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
(3) The report warned that 24m acres of unprotected forest lands across the southeastern US are at risk, largely from European biomass operations.
(4) In all unprotected patients elevated FSH values and azoospermia also occurred after chemotherapy.
(5) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(6) Because surface water pollution appears to be important it is proposed that headwalls and drainage aprons be built around unprotected sources.
(7) On Wednesday she declared that if Sir Gideon had sent Chloe Smith unprotected on to Newsnight, then he was "cowardly as well as arrogant".
(8) We found a strong, positive relationship between maternal age at conception and duration of unprotected intercourse prior to conception (r = 0.40; p less than 0.0001).
(9) Through a composite volume analysis of protected versus unprotected animals, as well as a retrospective comparison between MT and non-MT lesioned animals, it was demonstrated that small mid-diencephalic lesions incorporating only the MTs and their immediate vicinity were capable of completely preventing the convulsant and lethal effects of PTZ.
(10) Beaten by Sánchez, he refused to give up, recovering brilliantly to catch the Chilean international in time to block his attempt to beat an unprotected Abbiati.
(11) The concept of wind chill applies only to unprotected objects.
(12) The Article suggests that use of the Harvard Criteria to diagnose death leaves such patients legally unprotected against surgical assaults such as organ removal and biomedical experiments while they still may be living and capable of perception, possibly including the perception of pain and the spoken word.
(13) The method of heat-denaturation and trypsin digestion was used to dissect bone biochemically into mineral-protected and mineral-unprotected pools of collagenous matrix.
(14) Reciprocity was also observed for delayed erythema in unprotected skin.
(15) Three rounds should also be offered to all women under the age of 40 with "unexplained infertility", as long as they've been having "regular unprotected intercourse" for two years, and one round offered to most women aged 40-42.
(16) The kinetic behaviour of bovine pancreatic chymotrypsin was studied with 22 N-protected and 17 N-unprotected tripeptidyl-p-nitroanilide substrates.
(17) "The price of protecting major budgets such as the NHS or schools will be a need to deliver deeper cuts in 'unprotected services'.
(18) The Authors would suggest the adoption of antirubella vaccination at least for immunologically unprotected fertile women where the embryo is at risk when illness is contracted in pregnancy.
(19) The unprotected mucosa loses all active transport capacity in vitro following one hour's ischaemia, and is the site of a pronounced loss of water and ions into the lumen in vivo.
(20) 10% of the sample had unprotected anal intercourse.