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 Translation for 'to defend' from English to Czech
VERB   to defend | defended | defended
defending | defends
SYNO to champion | to defend | to fend for | ...
to defend {verb}obhájit [dok.]
to defend {verb}hájit [nedok.]
to defend {verb}obhajovat [dok.]
to defend sb./sth. {verb}bránit [nedok.] k-o/co
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Usage Examples English
  • Naval armour has fundamentally changed from the Second World War doctrine of thicker plating to defend against shells, bombs and torpedoes.
  • It sheds little light on Archimedes as a person, and focuses on the war machines that he is said to have built in order to defend the city from the Romans.
  • The action was stated as needed to defend against the possibility of a missile attack conducted by a rogue state.
  • In 1086 Yusuf ibn Tashfin was invited by the Muslim "taifa" princes of Al-Andalus in the Iberian Peninsula to defend their territories from the encroachment of Alfonso VI, King of León and Castile.
  • He brought an armada of fifteen ships and 3,000 men to defend Afonso's rights, and to take Calicut.

  • It was only when faced with the danger of annihilation by the Franks in 584 that the dukes elected a new king in the person of Authari, son of Cleph, who began the definitive consolidation and centralization of the Lombard kingdom while the remaining imperial territories were reorganized under the control of an exarch in Ravenna with the capacity to defend the country without the Emperor's assistance.
  • Krzysztof Ulanowski argues that the claims of military inability are exaggerated, considering that although the sources praise Antoninus' love for peace and his efforts "rather to defend, than enlarge the provinces", he could hardly be considered a pacifist, as shown by the conquest of the Lowlands, the building of the Antonine Wall and the expansion of Germania Superior.
  • First General Syndic Marc Forné took part on a speech in Catalan in the General Assembly to defend the reform of the organization, and after three days he took part in the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe to defend Andorra's linguistic rights and economy.
  • Azerbaijan has missile and radar systems intended to defend Azerbaijani airspace.
  • When saying that the libertarian political theory is an integral part of the Austrian School and supposing Hayek is not a libertarian, Block excludes Menger from the Austrian School too since Menger seems to defend broader state activity than Hayek—for example, progressive taxation and extensive labour legislation.

  • In return for a guarantee of independence, Congress joined France in its global war with Britain and agreed to defend the French West Indies.
  • In the summer of 1861, Davis appointed several generals to defend Confederate lines from the Mississippi River east to the Allegheny Mountains.
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