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Someone who defends people or property

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One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring

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A fighter who seeks to repel an attack

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A lawyer who represents defendants, especially a public defender; a defense attorney (US) or defence counsel (UK)

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A defendant in a civil action

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.