Defender Sentence Examples

He was a vehement defender of Mary Stuart.

As the defender of democracy he had frequently to face serious dangers.

Settled soon after the close of the War of Independence, the township of Barre (pop. in 1900, 334 6) was organized in 1793 and named in honour of Isaac Barre (1726-1802), a defender of American rights in the British parliament.

The orthodox faith also, whose strong representative and defender had hitherto been the caliph, was shaken by the fact that Yazid III.

He followed up his success by entering Dauphine, where he took possession of Embrun and Gap. After another campaign, which was uneventful, the further prosecution of the war was abandoned owing to the defection of the duke of Savoy from the coalition, and Prince Eugene returned to Vienna, where he soon afterwards received the command of the army in Hungary, on the recommendation of the veteran count Riidiger von Starhemberg, the defender of Vienna in 1683.

Defender's witness No 2 ROBERT L. STEVENSON, Aged 35, part-time factory worker, c/o 5 Glen Lane, Paisley.

The best she could hope for was eternity on this table, alone, knowing what she'd done to humanity's defender.

His mother, the duchess, died in 1472, and his first wife in 1473; in 1475 and the following year he went on pilgrimage to the holy places of Italy; from this time forth there was a strong tincture of serious reflection thrown over his character; he was now, as we learn from Caxton, nominated "Defender and Director of the Siege Apostolic for the Pope in England."

His essays on The System of Exclusion and Denunciation in Religion (1815), and Objections to Unitarian Christianity Considered (1819), made him a defender of Unitarianism.

The defender at all events of the supremacy of moral intuitions must be prepared to follow whither the argument leads, into whatever strange quarters it may direct him.

Although a coarse, selfish and violent man, without any of the attributes of a statesman, Lancaster won a great reputation for patriotism; and his memory was long cherished, especially in the north of England, as that of a defender of popular liberties.

Qualified by letters of the papal chancery as liberator and defender of the Church, his armies twice (75.4 756) crossed the Alps, despite the opposition of the Frankish aristocracy, and forced Aistuif, king of the Lombards, to cede to him the exarchate of Ravenna and the Pentapolis.

All were pagans; all enemies of Charlemagne, defender of Christs Church, and hence the appointed conqueror of the world.

Thus, not content with encouraging writers with innovating ideas to the prejudice of traditional institutions, he attacked, in the order of the Jesuits, the strongest defender of these latter, and delivered over the new generation to revolutionary doctrines, A woman.

It was a cold day in hell when someone dared hang up on the White God, the Defender of Mankind, the Tamer of Evil.

He liked that she sought him out, not as the leader of the Guardians, not as the White God, not as the Defender of Mankind.

His appearance was in marked contrast to the public defender who usually inher­ited the Shakey Jakes of the world.

Sadly for the Defender the proposed amendment did not alter the eventual outcome!

The former Charlton Athletic defender, who joined the bluebirds this summer, missed the start of their Scandinavian tour with a sore knee.

Ashley Young, who had been lively from the start reached the byline inside the box only for the defender to bring him down.

Meanwhile, Lawrie Dudfield from Hull and defender Tom Smith from Rotherham have both joined the cobblers on free transfers.

I would not be inclined, therefore, to find against the defender because he had no counterclaim for damages.

How much advice the defender will give the novice crossfire player.

He also granted decree for removing against the defender in terms of the second crave of the initial writ.

Should be even easier, and the defender should be getting dog-tired.

With time running out Burnley were on the attack when a tangerine defender hoofed a huge ball downfield.

And it got worse for them in the dying seconds when defender Michael Howard was sent off following a dust-up with Craig Faulconbridge.

The defender, otherwise faultless, had got himself in a pickle about what to do with a long ball over the top.

From a penalty corner, Craig Parnham's flick looped up off a defender's stick and over the stranded goalkeeper.

Their defender Noel Cantwell was approaching with equal gusto.

Arthur appears as defender of Christianity, driving out pagan heresy, conquering Denmark, Norway and Gaul.

Elin collected well, beat the last defender and cleverly deceived the keeper to score.

The third Defender was a French privateer lugger, captured in the same year.

Out-of-contract defender Matt Somner, 23, has also left Aldershot to join the magpies on a two-year deal.

Sam only failed to find the back of the net due to a jumbled mess with a defender and the St Ives keeper.

There is now a movement afoot to exchange the title for succeeding monarchs to that of Defender of Faiths.

Smith did nowt except nearly kill a Derby defender.

Rich Payne pounced on Alex Mugan's drilled cross, only to see his goalbound shot ricochet off a defender.

In the end, the story came to a dramatic conclusion seeing the defender signing for his old club's deadly rivals.

A deflected shot by a defender resulted in a corner kick.

The third Charlton player in England's squad, defender Casey Stoney, was an unused substitute.

The attacker is likely to have numerical superiority to offset the defender being hidden.

The former Southampton defender should force his way back into Kenny Jackett's side following his one-match suspension last week.

The aim of the body swerve is to dummy the defender into moving the wrong way.

Somebody should come up with having a teammate behind the pressuring defender.

The pope, after careful consideration, conferred on the king of England the title "Defender of the Faith" by bull of the 11th of October 1521.

The duke of Anjou at his earnest instigation accepted the title of " Defender of the liberties of the Netherlands," and promised, if the provinces would raise an army of io,000 foot and 2000 horse, to come to their assistance with a hurt at this treatment and disappointed at his failure, De a th h Do n John.

As Theodoret had previously been a constant defender of Nestorius it was impossible for him to concur in this sentence upon his unfortunate friend with a clear conscience, and in point of fact he did not change his own dogmatic position.

The chief heroes who fought Charlemagne's battles were Roland; Ganelon, afterwards the traitor; Turpin, the fighting archbishop of Reims; Duke Naimes of Bavaria, the wise counsellor who is always on the side of justice; Ogier the Dane, the hero of a whole series of romances; and Guillaume of Toulouse, the defender of Narbonne.

As autocratic ruler of the nation which had long considered itself the defender of the Eastern Orthodox faith and the protector of the Slav nationalities, he could not remain inactive at such a crisis, and he gradually allowed himself to drift into a position from which he could not retreat without obtaining some tangible result.

This document annulled the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, with its schismatic tendencies, but at the same time confirmed the preponderating influence of the king upon the Gallican Church - a concession which in spite of its many dubious aspects at least made the sovereign the natural defender of the Church and gave him the strongest motive for remaining Catholic. The war for the duchy of Urbino (1516-17) entailed disastrous consequences, as from it dates the complete disorganization of papal finance.

Rich Payne pounced on Alex Mugan 's drilled cross, only to see his goalbound shot ricochet off a defender.

In the end, the story came to a dramatic conclusion seeing the defender signing for his old club 's deadly rivals.

Star Defender is a vertical scrolling space shooter with elements of Tyrian, Raptor and Demon Star.

The return day is, in general terms, the date by which the defender must return any document to the sheriff clerk.

It came from Billy Morris, he took a throw in from Jackie Chew and turned his man before shrugging off another defender.

Meanwhile, Oxford defender Gavin Johnson faces a spell on the sidelines through injury.

Fingers crossed for the boy who was a stalwart defender early this season alongside Paul McShane in the ' main ' reserve team.

Martin was a staunch defender of workers ' rights all his working life.

The third Charlton player in England 's squad, defender Casey Stoney, was an unused substitute.

The former Southampton defender should force his way back into Kenny Jackett 's side following his one-match suspension last week.

Birmingham City are the latest top-flight club to be reportedly showing an interest in Luton defender Curtis Davies.

Instead, they have traditionally focused on Cromwell 's role as a defender of nascent English ' parliamentary traditions ' against a tyrannical king.

Stephen Hughes, Marcus Hall and veteran defender Richard Shaw are all doubtful with injuries.

A fee of around £ 800,000 has been agreed for the defender, now Wolves just need to finalize personal terms with the player.

Defender 's witness No 2 ROBERT L. STEVENSON, Aged 35, part-time factory worker, c/o 5 Glen Lane, Paisley.

The 5th Duke was a zealous defender of the Established Church at all times.

The defender was the bane of my scoring hopes, blocking my shot from the goal.

My sister today is not only my best friend, but she is my confidant and great defender.

The show starred Harry Anderson as a night court judge, and Markie Post played public defender Christine Sullivan.

A law school student who graduates, passes the bar and serves as a public defender may find their student loans for law school forgiven.

It is a side-scrolling game with a style similar to the classic video game Defender.

You could say that this was the true start to home gaming consoles history, as the Atari brought us such classics as Defender, Missile Command, and Pitfall.

The collection offers popular games including Defender, Robotron, Gauntlet, Joust, Paperboy and Rampage.

Most of the games are shooter/action games like Defender where you are traveling over an alien landscape blasting enemies with your ship.

It offers many popular titles like Defender, Joust, Rampage, Paperboy and Robotron.

You could be an attacker or a defender, or you could relay on positional play or you might try to simplify the board as quick as possible.

He's a champion and defender to the end.

Peter Gallagher plays public defender Sandy Cohen, the husband of Kirsten, father of Seth and the man who gave Ryan Atwood somewhere to go.

You can use Free Spyware Removal Tools, and scanners like AVG, Spybot, Ad-Aware and Microsoft's Defender.

Fashion First Aid Delicates Defender (pictured) - This round bag is a little bit larger than the Real Simple bags, but is still sized perfectly for a small batch of intimate items.

Whether innocent or guilty, however, her fate caused no regrets and her misfortunes did not raise a single champion or defender.

At Alalcomenae, near the Tritonian lake in Boeotia, she was aXaXKoyeinfis ("defender").

In 1751 he became counsel to the East India Company, and in 1756 he was appointed solicitor-general, a place which he retained in the administration of the elder Pitt, of whose foreign policy he was a powerful defender.

This he believed to be the teaching of St Augustine, as well as of St Thomas, of whom he was an ardent admirer and defender.

In the west of Atabeg (prince's guardian) Zengi, the prince of Mosul, had extended his dominion over Mesopotamia and the north of Syria, where he had been the greatest defender of Islam against the Franks.

Cetywayo, who had found a defender in Bishop Colenso, vouchsafed no reply, and Lord Chelmsford entered Zululand, at the head of 13,000 troops, on the 11th of January 1879 to enforce the British demands.

Robert Herbert Story (1835-1906), principal after Caird of Glasgow University, stood by the side of Lee and Tulloch in their assembly contendings and was an outspoken defender of the National Church against her spoliators from without.

He is perhaps the most influential of all Syriac authors; and his fame as a poet, commentator, preacher and defender of orthodoxy has spread throughout all branches of the Christian Church.

As a theologian, Ephraim shows himself a stout defender of Nicaean orthodoxy, with no leanings in the direction of either the Nestorian or the Monophysite heresies which arose after his time.

In the excited temper of the times any defender of justification by faith was looked upon by the old school as heretical; and Pole, with the circle at Viterbo, was denounced to the Inquisition, with all sorts of crimes imputed to him.

As a defender of the established religion he was soon engaged in controversy, and his failure to secure a fellowship at All Souls' College is attributed to the hostility of the Roman Catholics.

About this time Philip adopted the reformed faith, of which he was afterwards the zealous and daring defender.

As regent, he had failed twice in taking the city of the caliphs, but on the second occasion he had defeated and killed its gallant defender, Topal Othman, and he had succeeded in regaining Tiffis, Kars and Erivan.

Viennet, a hot defender of lost causes, may be considered the latest of the epistolary poets of France.

One of the first acts of the usurper, and one of the most important, was to abandon the semi-ecclesiastical titles of visitor (visitador) or defender (curador) of the realm, and to 111., 1248- proclaim himself king (rei).

John was proclaimed defender of Portugal.

Armed resistance he considered dangerous, but he was an immutable defender of the continuity of the Hungarian constitution on the basis of the reforms of 1848.

According to Bellarmine, Garnet's zealous friend and defender, "If the person confessing be concealed, it is lawful for a priest to break the seal of confession in order to avert a great calamity "; but he justifies Garnet's silence by insisting that it was not lawful to disclose a treasonable secret to a heretical king.

Nor did the fact that the duke took the title of protector and defender of the realm cause any surprise.

Lord Herbert is referred to as a defender of innateness.

Nilus, the disciple and defender of Chrysostom, permitted the symbol of the cross in churches and also pictorial delineations of Old and New Testament history, but deprecated other symbols, pictures of martyrs, and most of all the representation of Christ.

The QCA has become too ardent a defender of every aspect of the present system.

After declarer claims the remaining tricks, if a defender disagrees with the claim, he should ask declarer to continue playing.

A fee of around £ 800,000 has been agreed for the defender, now wolves just need to finalize personal terms with the player.

Michael-Often considered the most powerful angel, Michael is a warrior and a defender.

Persecution was revived by the Guises; Du Bourg, the brave defender of the Protestants, was burned as a heretic; yet Calvin could in the closing years of his life form a cheerful estimate that some three hundred thousand of his countrymen had been won over to his views.

The town possesses a museum and a monument to Guillaume Rene Courbiere (1733-1811), the defender of the town in 1807.

Though athletic, he was one of the least militant of the gods; a title rpoµaxos, the Defender, is found only in connexion with a victory of young men ("ephebes") in a battle at Tanagra.

The preposterous charge was urged that it was by his advice that the king had committed himself in his book against Luther to an assertion of the pope's authority, whereby the title of " Defender of the Faith " had been gained, but in reality a sword put into the pope's hand to fight against him.

In theory, the knight was the defender of widows and orphans; but in practice wardships and marriages were bought and sold as a matter of everyday routine like stocks and shares in the modern market.

In the new German confederation Bavaria had assumed the role of defender 1 On o ' '/8/8.

The heir to the throne was John's eldest son, Sigismund, already king of Poland and a devoted Catholic. The fear lest Sigismund might re-catholicize the land alarmed the Protestant majority in Sweden, and Charles came forward as their champion, and also as the defender of the Vasa dynasty against foreign interference.

Before the Civil War Stanton was a Democrat, opposed to slavery, but a firm defender of the constitutional rights of the slaveholders, and was a bitter opponent of Lincoln, whose party he then hated and distrusted.

Henry had defended the papacy against Luther in 1521 and had received in return the title "defender of the faith."

He abdicated in 1859 and left the country, after refusing to ratify the treaty with Peru, by which the defender of Guayaquil had obtained the raising of the siege.

Napoleon, moreover, he regarded not as the scourge of Europe, but as the defender of civilization against the barbarism of the Slays; and in the famous interview between the two men at Erfurt the poet's admiration was reciprocated by the French conqueror.

On the 8th of July, King Ferdinand arrived from Palermo, and the state trials, conducted in the most arbitrary fashion, resulted in wholesale butchery; hundreds of persons were executed, including some of the best men in the veng g country, such as the philosopher Mario Pagano, the scientist Cirillo, Manthone, the minister of war under the republic, Massa, the defender of Castel dell' Uovo, and Ettore Caraffa, the defender of Pescara, who had been captured by treachery, while thousands of others were immured in horrible dungeons or exiled.

In 1789 he was elected a member of the states-general by the clergy of the bailliage of Peronne, and from the first proved to be the most able and persevering defender of the ancien regime, although he had drawn up the greater part of the cahier of the clergy of Peronne, which contained a considerable programme of reform.

How good was a Defender of Humanity who purposely looked away from something that led to so many deaths?

Although holding an office of subordinate rank, he was the chief defender of the government in the House of Commons, and during the time that Pitt was in opposition had to bear the brunt of his attacks.

In Congress he was a consistent defender of sound money and civil service reform; in municipal politics he was in favour of business administrations and opposed to partisan nominations.

At the ecclesiastical council which took place at Paris in 1406 Pierre d'Ailly made every effort to avert a new withdrawal from the obedience and, by order of the king, took the part of defender of Benedict XIII., a course which yet again exposed him to attacks from the university party.

By this campaign, which exposed him to the worst retaliation of the English, he inaugurated his role of "procurator and defender of the king of France."

Marguerite was at once one of the chief patronesses of letters that France possessed, and the chief refuge and defender of advocates of the Reformed doctrines.

The slave who had just grounds of complaint against his master could demand to be sold; when he alleged his right to liberty, the law granted him a defender and the sanctuaries offered him an asylum till judgment should be given.

Other ministering angels are Geush Urvan ("the genius and defender of animals"), and Sraosha, the genius of obedience and faithful hearing.

In polite literature the heroic poem Zrinyidsz (1651), descriptive of the fall of Sziget, by Nicholas Zrinyi, grandson of the defender of that fortress, marks a new era in Hungarian poetry.

Disobedience to or contempt of the ecclesiastical courts is to be punished by a new writ, de contumace capiendo, to follow on the certificate of the judge that the defender is contumacious and in contempt.

It would be impossible, however, for the stoutest defender of the importance of form in literature to assign the chief part in Montaigne's influence to style.

Francois de Beauharnais, marquis de la FerteBeauharnais, was a deputy in the states-general of 1789, and a devoted defender of the monarchy.

The Siamese, as southern Buddhists, pride themselves on their orthodoxy; and since Burma, like Ceylon, has lost its independence, the king is regarded in the light of the sole surviving defender of the faith.

He had posed as the defender of the public rights of Europe and won to his side the smaller powers and much of the public opinion of Europe, while the allies were beginning to be regarded more in the light of rapacious conquerors than as disinterested defenders of the liberties of Europe.

In philosophy, Collins takes a foremost place as a defender of Necessitarianism.

Republican and Socialist agitation, culminating in a series of dangerous risings, strengthened the position of the king as defender of middle-class interest; and since the middle classes constituted the pays legal which alone was represented in Parliament, he came to regard his position as unassailable, especially after the suppression of the risings under Blanqui and Barbes in 1839.

He called himself the defender of Christians; others, on account of his favour to the Saracens, spoke of him as a pagan.

Side by side with the Minorites, the spokesmen of the specifically political opposition to the papacy were the Parisian professors, Marsilius of Padua and John of Jandun, the composers of the " Defender of the Peace " (defensor pacis).

From 1410 to 1414 Payne was principal of St Edmund Hall, and during these years was engaged in controversy with Thomas Netter of Walden, the Carmelite defender of Catholic doctrine.

Ganilh is best known as the most vigorous defender of the mercantile school in opposition to the views of Adam Smith and the English economists.

Cetywayo (who now found no defender in Natal save Bishop Colenso) was in a defiant humour, and permitted outrages by Zulu both on the Transvaal and Natal borders.

In politics, while he held aloof from the clubs, and even from parties, he was an ardent defender of the new institutions.

He was a zealous defender of that monastic life which was beginning to take such a large place in the church of the 4th century, and he found enthusiastic disciples among the Roman ladies.

In the early periods of the history of other countries this seems to have been the case even where the dog was esteemed and valued, and had become the companion, the friend and the defender of man and his home; and in the and century of the Christian era Arrian wrote that "there is as much difference between a fair trial of speed in a good run, and ensnaring a poor animal without an effort, as between the secret piratical assaults of robbers at sea and the victorious naval engagements of the Athenians at Artemisium and at Salamis."

The Celtic heroic saga in the British islands may be divided into the two principal groups of Gaelic (Irish) and Brython (Welsh), the first, excluding the purely mythological, into the Ultonian (connected with Ulster) and the Ossianic. The Ultonianis grouped round the names of King Conchobar and the heroCuchulainn, " the Irish Achilles," the defender of Ulster against all Ireland, regarded by some as a solar hero.

Long before this, in 1836, Antwerp ha .d erected a statue to its defender of 1814.

Cicero took an active part in the trials which followed, both as a defender of Milo and his adherents and as a prosecutor of the opposite faction.

He is best known as an able defender of the semi-Arian position, and was styled by Athanasius the "advocate" of the Arians.

From 1891 until 1897 he was a member of the United States Senate, in which, during President Cleveland's second term, he was recognized as the chief defender of the Administration, and he was especially active in securing the repeal of the silverpurchase clause of the Sherman Act.