He practised the natural defence style.

Denial is one of the strongest human defence mechanisms.

But at the sight of Chloe the memory of his love momentarily revived him, and he exclaimed: "I shall shortly be no more, my dear Chloe; I fought in defence of my cattle, and those wicked robbers, the pirates, have reduced me to this state."

The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.

It is my fear that in an understandable but foolish wish for the European Union to have its own defence capability, politicians are forging ahead with plans that are at best wishful thoughts, and at worst dangerous.

Quite apart from the concerns surrounding this injustice itself, it seems grotesque that this situation has been brought about by a committee whose very purpose of existence is the defence of women's rights and equal opportunities.

The defence attorney did his best on behalf of Tom to secure his acquittal.

The threat increases; a defence that doesn't evolve is meaningless.

The defence kept a clean sheet.

A frosty east-west relationship led to a sort of brinkmanship where both NATO and Russia flew military aircraft close to the other side's frontiers or even deliberately made brief incursions into the other side's airspace, either to test air defence capabilities or as part of a pattern of intimidation or coercion.