959 examples of defenders in sentences

I have read many pro-German articles in the New York Times, the New York Sun, the Outlook, and other papers and magazines opposed to German policyarticles by Münsterberg, Kuno Franke, Von Bernstorff, Dernburg, and other staunch defenders of Germany.

Your letter did not contain a single statement or argument that has not been printed over and over again in papers from one end of America to the other by various defenders of the German cause.

This exasperates the heroic defenders of the shop, who exclaim, "If you can't fight any better than that, you had better leave," and immediately begin an attack in his rear.

We not only don't keep our promise, and make scarce any provision for our defenders, but our people insist upon the most exorbitant prices for their cattle and stores, and actually cheat the soldiers who are come to fight their battles.

As his utmost concession to poetry, he will admit her if her defenders can prove "not only that she is pleasant, but also useful to states and to human life."

But both the attackers and the defenders argued from the same premise, that the purpose of poetry was to afford pleasant moral instruction.

Lodge, Sidney and the other defenders of poetry retorted that poetry had a noble functionthe teaching of morality, and that an occasional poem which did not serve this purpose did not invalidate the claims of poetry as a whole.

Namur was evacuated when the defenders found themselves unable to support a heavy artillery fire.

On August 10 the Belgian defenders fought a heavy engagement with the Germans at Haelen, which was described in the dispatches as the first battle of the war.

French troops had joined the Belgian defenders and the main battle line extended from Liege on the north to Metz on the south.

"The possession of the ridge of Mondement was vital to either the attackers or the defenders.

And aside from the effectiveness of these terrible weapons, Belgian prisoners who were in the Namur forts declare their fire absolutely shattered the nerves of the defenders, whose guns had not sufficient range to reach them.

The strength of every such work must depend on the spirit of its garrison, and at Liege and Namur, the Belgian defenders gave a good account of themselves.

CHAPTER XIX FALL OF ANTWERP Great Seaport of Belgium Besieged by a Large German ForceForts Battered by Heavy Siege GunsFinal Surrender of the CityBelgian and British Defenders EscapeExodus of InhabitantsGermans Reach the Sea.

Inspired by the example of King Albert and his devoted Queen, who spent most of their time with the Belgian forces in the field, and shared with them the vicissitudes of war, the defenders of Belgium fought with the utmost pertinacity.

BRITISH MARINES AID DEFENDERS

In order to gain time for an orderly retreat a heavy fire was maintained against the Germans up to the last minute and the forts were then blown up by the defenders as the Germans came in at the gate of Malines.

Lucius had meanwhile been sending on one excuse and another soldiers to his friends in Rome, and then coming suddenly on the scene himself conquered the cavalry force that met him, hurled the infantry back to the wall, and after that took the city, since those that had been there for some days helped the defenders within by attacking the besiegers.

It would be a disadvantage unto truth and virtue if their defenders were barred from the use of this weapon, since it is that especially whereby the patrons of error and vice do maintain and propagate them.

In a truce of empty silence, the defenders slept by turns among the sand-bags.

Even her defenders are ceasing now to urge that she can possibly derive any real benefit from this colossal ineptitude.

The Russians bombarded the "Ark" for a day or more, killing a large proportion of its defenders.

The charge of encouraging vice and tolerating drunkenness, with which the defenders of this bill have been so liberally aspersed, may be, in my opinion, more justly retorted upon those that oppose it; who, though they plead for the continuance of a law, rigorous, indeed, and well intended, own that it has, by the experience of several years, been found ineffectual.

A number of sepoys were killed or knocked senseless by stones, but the remainder reached the sangars, and cleared out the defenders at the point of the bayonet.

The Cimbri admired their bravery, and when they had forced the bridge let its defenders go.

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