Sentences with 'defender'
Example sentences and phrases with the word defender and other words derived from it.
• « Philip II saw his place in Europe, and in history, as the strongest possible defender of Catholicism. This translated into harsh, even tyrannical, suspicion and persecution not only of non-Catholics, but also of Catholics suspected of harbouring secret non-Catholic beliefs. »
• « Galileo was tried by the Inquisition in 1633, in part because his former patron, Pope Urban VIII, thought Galileo had been mocking him personally by naming the imaginary defender of the Ptolemaic view "Stupid". »
• « Although he later repented of his ideas, the great defender of the Indians, Bartolomé de Las Casas, seeing the near extinction of the native population, suggested to the Spanish that they send black (and white) labourers to the Indies. »
• « The boycott of 1768-1769 turned the purchase of consumer goods into a political gesture. It mattered what was consumed. Indeed, the very clothes you wore indicated whether you were a defender of liberty at home or a protector of parliamentary rights in superfine British attire. »