Examples of using "Défend" in a sentence and their english translations:
And he's defending us against...
He stands for democracy.
He defends and protects his family.
- Nobody defends my country.
- No one is defending my country.
He defends and protects his family.
Our school prohibits us from going to the movies alone.
The union is pressing for a ten-percent pay hike.
Does modesty prevent you from seeing my naked blade?
Don't trust him. Like everyone else, he's looking out for himself.
and asking for less and less in return on our behalf.
The author shies away from any direct accusation of misconduct on the part of the authorities.
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
- He defends suicide on the grounds that one's self-dignity is more important.
- Because he believes in the importance of people's own dignity, he advocates suicide.
You may not agree with him, but at least he stands up for what he believes in.
The accused defends herself freely and must find herself on an equal footing with the accuser.
You may not agree with him, but at least he stands up for what he believes in.
Down from the citadel I haste below, / through foe, through fire, the goddes for my guide. / Harmless the darts give way, the sloping flames divide.
"The realm thou see'st is Punic; Tyrians are / the folk, the town Agenor's. Round them lie / the Libyan plains, a people rough in war."
A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
No wounds they take, no weapon wins it way. / Swiftly they soar, all leaving, ere they go, / their filthy traces on the half-gorged prey.
The president of the Amazigh World Congress, an "international NGO that defends and promotes the individual and collective rights of the Berbers" was summoned and interrogated for two hours by the Algerian police about its activities and reports of violations of human rights in Kabylia.
"Athwart the streets stands ready the array / of steel, and bare is every blade and bright. / Scarce the first warders of the gates essay / to stand and battle in the blinding night."
- Enraged by these things as well, she kept the Trojans, all that were left of the Greeks and indomitable Achilles, far away from Latium, tossed by the wide ocean; they wandered for many years, driven by the Fates, all around the seas.
- So fired with rage, the Trojans' scanty train / by fierce Achilles and the Greeks unslain / she barred from Latium, and in evil strait / for many a year, on many a distant main / they wandered, homeless outcasts, tost by fate.
The minority of Kabyles who defend the Algerian colonial state, are for the most part under the control of Arabo-Islamism and, for the others who are paid by the same system are attracted by the privileges. Under the guise of nationalism, they support the fascist strate that oppresses, imprisons and kills Kabyles every day and impoverishes the Kabylia by putting a stick in the wheels of the local economy. Of course this minority of Kabyle traitors don't see all this misery, quite the contrary, they speak of dates and sun on the beach.