• Students are scrambling to defend their dissertations so that they can graduate on time.

• The trouble with the new multinational outfit is that its members might have to defend people by firing weapons.

• They bestride the top of the food chain and are well equipped to defend themselves in nature.

• Infamous preservative may help defend against bacteria.

• First to arrive are the males, whose goal is to carve out a patch of sand they can defend from other males.

• Similarly, it can be hard to defend the complexity of basketball to an ardent football fan.

• And the military's job is to do one thing, and that is to defend our country.

• They are willing to defend policies they may not agree with privately.

• So male chameleons can attract a mate or defend their territory by flashing bright colors to each other.

• Then you have to defend it from others who also want this nice piece of property.

• Páez's teammates scatter, fanning out diagonally to defend their end zone.

• In this game, you defend your makeship fort from an onslaught of zombies, upgrading your weaponry and recruiting fellow survivors.

• At first you dismiss your critics as cranks, but as the evidence piles up, you struggle to defend yourself.

• To champion something is to support it, to defend it.

• As a lioness tries to feed her cubs with a fresh kill, the prey's mother waits nearby to defend her young against its attacker.

• The best way to defend against resistant bacteria is to have a healthy immune system.

• Previously, military units had relied on pikemen to defend musketeers from attack while they reloaded.

• Microsoft was asking the justices to make it easier for companies to defend themselves against patent-infringement allegations.

• I've used it myself to defend the traditional bookish culture of libraries.

• In addition, the central banks of free-floating currencies no longer had to raise interest rates to defend their exchange rates.

• They den by burrowing into banks or under fallen logs, and establish a home territory that they will aggressively defend.

• In the wild, fathead minnows establish nests, which males defend from rivals.

• It would signal that the fort was occupied and prepared to defend the harbor.

• Military researchers are today working on a way to defend soldiers with ultra-quick laser pulses and mid-air plasma bursts.

• I'll likely defend this summer, so it's a long time coming.

• But eventually the monkeys run into each other in the forest or have to come together to defend the area against invaders.

• But perhaps you did not know that some plants injured by caterpillars or aphids call out chemically to parasitoids to defend them.

• Thank you for this country your generation helped build and defend.

• The family will stake out a territory and defend it using loud, haunting calls that can echo for miles throughout the forest.

• We must defend our position at the top of the food chain.

• We are a proud family, giving our share to defend freedom.

• Parents are territorial and will defend their nests against all comers-even wolves.

• Lindzen will doggedly defend his position, because his client pays him to do it.

• Some tribes attacked others and some tribes never attacked others and would only defend themselves when attacked.

• Almost all attacks on people seem to represent an attempt to gain or to defend a food resource.

• These attacks are difficult to defend against and impossible to trace.

• They live in burrows, which they will heartily defend against intruders.

• Interior will now be forced to defend the rule in court.

• Worm-eating warblers nest on the ground, and they defend their eggs or young by trying to lure predators away.

• Helicopter-mounted lasers that can dazzle and defend against heat-seeking missiles are now under development, researchers reveal.

• Alligators are territorial animals and will defend prime territory if it is threatened.

• The shrimp use the sound to communicate with one another and to defend their territory.

• The best way to defend oneself against a hurricane is an accurate forecast that gives people time to get out of its way.

• But the lack of such proof of ownership meant they were often unable to defend their territories from being occupied or exploited.

• The social mammals travel and live in groups dominated by an alpha male and defend their feeding and wallowing territories.

• He is still mean, and still says horrible things to me, and forces me to defend myself and my mother and my life.

• Milkweed plants defend themselves against caterpillars and other predators with toxins, spiky leaves and sticky latex.

• And that has coincided with extensive union efforts to defend teachers who are obviously failing our students.

• Two wounds to his right hand and wrist show he was stabbed while trying to defend himself with a dagger against an attacker.

• For some species this maxim holds especially true because what they eat plays an integral part in how they defend themselves.

• Naive hero is convinced he has amazing abilities and must defend against evil-doers at every turn.

• It was my job to defend her against this malicious student.

• Investors simply did not believe that the government would inflict that much pain on its citizens in order to defend the currency.

• Some of the troop is captured by the monkey catcher and the remaining gang must defend their temple against larger monkeys.

• He challenges what is perhaps the sacred statistic cited by economists who defend college:.

• Now it is devising ways to squeeze the banks in order to defend society.

• Legislated for higher security and safety standards at industrial facilities to defend against terrorism.

• He should have been allowed to speak and forced to defend his views.

• Those arrested are from many racial and ethnic groups-but so too are those uniting to defend their property and communities.

• These steps are ostensibly motivated by a desire to defend the poor from getting stuck in a debt.

• It uses its sawlike snout to hunt prey and defend itself when threatened.

• It is now up to us to decide to defend our planet from these random infalling objects, big and small.

• If you want to defend your turf against other players, you can defend it with these resources.

• So if those that are trying to defend themselves are not sharing information, they are really at a loss".

• The bill's proponents defend it as nothing more than a push for transparency and accountability.

• To defend against so many enemies, prairie dogs commonly perch on the large mounds at burrow entrances and look for danger.

• It matters not a jot how much you try to defend the indefensible it s still wrong pure and simple.

• Hackers are believed to cost global businesses billions of dollars every year, and the costs to defend against them are soaring.

• It is hard to see how anyone can defend against this.

• They must also hire lawyers to defend themselves against attacks by other lawyers on a playing field built by lawyers.

• Dawkins went on to ardently defend the positions of atheism and agnosticism and the notion of separation of church and state.

• If you attack too many times without resting, your character becomes dizzy, unable to defend against enemy attacks.

• But the firms nonetheless defend the growing practice as a form of marketing.

• People see you using it, judging your choice-so you defend your choice.

• Nelson originally pledged to consume only bacon for the month to defend cured pork products from slanderous attacks.

• The great critics who strode the earth at mid-20th century had to defend themselves against their own detractors.

• The producer will have to start spending again in order to defend the product's market position.

• In an instant he drew his dive knife and prepared to defend himself, but the big squid had fled.

• Some sea snails produce poisonous darts to hunt small fish and defend themselves.

• White-bellied sea eagles will defend their home territory.

• It is more difficult for her opponents to defend or attack.

• We keep one loaded in the office at all times to defend against hostile takeover attempts and pushy vendors.

• To defend themselves, many have developed poisons and thorns.

• Each student should be prepared to defend his or her choice.

• The team further determined that the chemicals are similar to those used by plants to defend against insects and disease.

• He is asked only to stay in fighting form and to defend the regime in times of trouble.

• Instead the hot tail signals the readiness of adult squirrels to defend their young from a rattlesnake attack.

• The second group will defend the interests of those who feel strict environmental laws will cause them serious financial damage.

• The work focuses on why some animals defend their territories.

• What blows my mind is that you still defend these dirty fuels even when the previous facts have been established.

• There seems to be a linguistic difference between those who defend faith and those who are skeptic.

• And female alligators will vigorously defend their nests.

• Through this direct study, he has learned how to communicate with the wolves and defend himself through scent and sounds.

• Challenge the students to defend the opposite point of view than their own.

• If someone gets too close, the parents will defend their young.

• Tell students that they can select anywhere but that they must be able to defend their decision in a proposal to the principal.

• Minkisi, or power figures, were crafted to defend against or enter into union with these spirits depending on the spirits' intent.

• Students should be able to explain and defend their choices.

• Having already lost one of her piglets to a cheetah, this warthog mama is ready to defend her family no matter the cost.

• Parents continue to feed and defend their brood through the summer.

• Officially, guards are allowed to defend themselves if poachers shoot.

• But the heat limited the trees' ability to defend themselves.

• They are frightened and ready to defend their turf and the youngsters are all pumped up and eager to chase the elephants.

• The story's vivid and varied examples include a crab that uses anemones to defend itself and an orangutan turned escape artist.

• African wild dogs hunt antelope and wildebeests in packs and often have to defend their kills from hyenas and lions.

• When faced with this threat, some dogs will choose to run from the situation, while others will defend themselves.

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