Dizionario Polacco - Inglese

obrona in inglese:

1. defence

The national army assures the defence of the country in case of a conflict.

She came to my defence when I was accused of plagiarism.

The body has natural defences against viruses.

There were many people around but nobody came to her defence.

The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.

Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.

The threat increases; a defence that doesn't evolve is meaningless.

What do you have to say in your defence?

Their team's defence is not that good.

They were fighting in defence of their capital.

Self-defence can sometimes save your life.

He had no defence for his terrible actions.

Thanks to his good defence, he was found not guilty.

In my defence, it's still yesterday here in Iceland.

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2. defend

Defend her from danger.

I never imagined that my skills as a lawyer would be used to defend Tom.

A good lawyer would leave no stone unturned in his efforts to defend his client.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

To defend ourselves, we had to tell a lie.

As a public official you have sworn an oath to uphold and defend the constitution.

Apart from his parents, nobody would defend the suspect.

It is more difficult to defend oneself than to defend someone else. Those who doubt it may look at lawyers.

If you try to defend the seniority-based corporate escalator these days all you'll get is flak from younger employees.

I always regard him as a great ally in the fight to defend fundamental rights.

defend one's thesis

It probably will. But it's difficult to find anyone who doesn't defend a child's right to be healthy.

How can you defend someone you know is guilty?

And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library.

3. backs

Don't talk about people behind their backs.

Cats arch their backs.

Sea otters love to eat clams while swimming on their backs.

Bears often scratch their backs on the bark of trees.

Jane never backs down.

On warm days, bears stretch out or lie on their backs with their feet in the air.

The sun beat down on our necks and backs.

You hear about a lot of incidents these days that would be hard to dream up. It really backs up the old saying that fact is stranger than fiction.

Japanese women carry their babies on their backs.

“That is Andromeda Galaxy,” she tells me later as we lie on our backs.

As soon as our manager got off our backs, everything started to go off without a hitch.

Banks will try to lend you an umbrella on a sunny day, but they will turn their backs on a rainy day.

They set up their backs against the claim.

It is said that Didon had for dinner ten plump turkeys' backs.

That exercise - backs together, link arms, one bends forwards while the other stretches their back - we did that a lot as children, didn't we?

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4. defending

She went out on a limb defending him, and now she has lost her job.

Robson's proposal is tantamount to defending terrorists because they have a cause.

5. defensiveness

It’s a real gesture of defensiveness.

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