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defence Definition

de·fence (dē fens′, di-)

noun

Brit. defense

defence Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • realm: But my investigations have shown that some less sensitive information can safely be released without prejudicing the defense of the realm.
  • Marxism: Trotsky, in In Defense of Marxism, deals with sugar as both a concept and a category: " .. .
  • provocation: In 2000 the Law Lords introduced the defense of provocation.
  • liberty: LIBERAL Political current embracing several historical and present-day ideologies that claim defense of individual liberty as the purpose of government.

Converse of object

  • mount: As well as mounting a legal defense, he mounted a major PR offensive.
  • outpace: Eventually Freddie was able to gather a kick ahead and outpace the defense to score.

Adjective modifier

  • coastal: Poster 1 - What is a coastal defense Strategy Plan?
  • robust: The article amounts to a robust defense of the painter, and the quality and nature of his work.

Modifies a noun

  • lawyer: A defense lawyer was asking him why no bullets or bullet holes had been found in the room.
  • secretary: Donald Rumsfeld, defense secretary, has been the biggest skeptic.
  • spending: Overall, defense spending in the EU is still falling.
  • minister: Advertisement Junior defense minister Tom Watson said yesterday: " They deserve a commemoration 25 years on.
  • counsel: Matthew has acted as coverage and defense counsel in respect of, inter alia, D&O and fidelity policies.
  • mechanism: The lungs ' defense cells attempt to destroy the asbestos particles, but the body's defense mechanisms are unable to break them down.

Noun used with modifier

  • missile: The US missile defense agenda is exactly the kind of challenge that NATO should take up.
  • flood: Leeds students have worked for Symonds on flood defense projects.
  • self: By learning a martial art for self defense, you are still training to win the upper hand in a physical contest.
  • diligence: Many Global retailers have mandated that growers implement EurepGAP as part of their due diligence defense against food safety issues.
  • sea: Did you know that, Aberdeen Council are rushing through a sea defense project having done NO Environmental Impact Survey?
  • anti-invasion: Coastal anti-invasion defenses from World War II have dominated the project.
defence Quotes

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

—Burke, Edmund

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!

—Dyer, Sir Edward

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defence against betrayal.

—Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

—Lucas, E(dward) V(errell)

This is the best portent, to fight in defence of one's country.

—Homer   8c

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

The notion of a defence that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic in the President's vision.

—Schlesinger,James

The spirit that now resists your taxation in America is†the same spirit that established the great fundamental, essential maxim of your libertiesöthat no subject of England shall betaxed but byhis ownconsent. The glorious spirit of Whiggismanimates three million in America, who prefer poverty with liberty to gilded chains and sordid affluence; and who will die in defence of their rights as men, as free men.

—Pitt,William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder

England's chief defence depends upon the navy being always ready to defend the realm against invasion.

—Philip II

I am really persuaded that if we were to inquire of all the Cities which†have fallen by Siege into the Power of new Masters, who it was that subjected and overcame them, they would tell you, the Architect; and that they were strong enough to have despised the armed Enemy, but not to withstand the Shocks of the Engines, the Violence of the Machines and the Force of other Instruments of War with whichthe Architect, distressed, demolished and ruinated them.On the contrary, they would inform you that their greatest Defense lay in the Art and Assistance of the Architect.

—Alberti, Leon Battista

Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.

—Dillon,Wentworth

England is a great and powerful nation, foremost in human progress, enemy to despotism, the only safe refuge for the exile, friend of the oppressed. If ever England should be so circumstanced as to require the help of anyally, cursed be the Italian who would not step forward with me in her defence.

—Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Preparing for suicide is not a very intelligent means of defence.

—Kent, Bruce

I stand before you tonight in my green chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved†the Iron Lady of the Western World? Me? A Cold War warrior? Well, yesöif that is how they wish to interpret my defence of values and freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

—Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness

Ihave justcausetomakea pitiful defence of poor poetry, which from almost the highest estimation of learning is 790

—Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway

Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

—Bible (Old Testament)

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a loverönever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

—Charles I

Ithink it iswellalsofor themaninthestreettorealizethat there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed.Whatever people will tell him, the bomber will always get through.The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly thanthe enemy if you want to save yourselves.

—Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl

   Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

—Alcaeus