6 sentences with 'defending'
Example sentences and phrases with the word defending and other words derived from it.
• « Not only did they serve the emperor in the city of Rome, but the Praetorians actively campaigned both in defending Roman territory from invasion (which became a growing problem in the 4th century AD), and with the emperor while he was on campaign. »
• « And, just as Petrarch "invented" the main themes of Renaissance thought by imitating and defending classical humanist thought, a Florentine artist, architect and engineer named Filippo Brunelleschi "invented" Renaissance art by imitating the classical world. »
• « Even Kant's essay celebrated what he described as the "public use of reason", that is, the exchange of ideas among intellectuals, while defending the authoritarian power of the (Prussian, in his case) king to demand that his subjects "obey". »
• « The twelve members of this committee governed France from September 1793 to July 1794 as a dictatorial council, charged with defending the Revolution against both its external enemies and internal rebels. It was highly successful in the former respect, issuing a levée en masse, or total mobilisation for war, which swelled the ranks of the French forces and kept the Austrian and Prussian armies at bay. »
• « In 1947, the United States published the Truman Doctrine, which promised to help people resist communism wherever it appeared - the doctrine's rhetoric was about defending free people who were threatened by foreign agents, but as became abundantly clear in the decades that followed, it was more important that people not be communists than that they be "free" from dictatorships. »
• « Colonial troops fought in the name of defending democracy against fascism and tyranny, but in their home countries they had no access to democratic rights. Many independence movements, such as that in India, refused to help in the war effort as a result. »