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Example sentences for: defence

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The lawyer's first line of defence is precision , his bounden duty to lay down his words so that they may never be misunderstood.
Bombs are called systems , poisons are agents . Then there is the marvelously uninformative Strategic Defence Initiative . To help maintain the required standards of blandness and inefficiency, the words situation and located must be used (they would say utilized ) as often as possible.
Far less attention has been directed toward the less specific innate (‘nonadaptive’) immune response, even though this response requires a wide array of genes and acts as the front line of immune defence (Box 1).
The source is The Defence of the Epilogue, or, An Essay on the Dramatic Poetry of the Last Age, published in 1672 with Almanzor and Almahide, or, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, which had been roundly criticized, especially for its language.
It has betrayed their trust; it has abandoned them without defence.