Sentences with phrase «defended by»

Yoakam will play Wendell Corey, who heads the giant aerospace company defended by powerful law firm Cooperman McBride, Borns Tech.

But the more Molly's Game tries to decide what its story is about rather than just telling it, the more the film feels like it's trying to «solve» Molly rather than portray her, to the point where its two big emotional moments involve Molly being sat down and informed about her own daddy issues by one male character, and getting passionately defended by another, her lawyer (Idris Elba), while she stays silent.

They are intensely defended by their attorney Auerbach (John Krasinski, «13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi») as heroes and not out - of - control torturers.

A world sundered by demons called the Aragami and defended by a small group of elite soldiers who wield giant weapons called God Arcs.

Fortunately, he is defended by a kindly farmer, and a schoolteacher.

Carr is being defended by Sam Patterson (Armand Assante), a once - respected civil rights lawyer fallen on hard times, while prosecutor Jessica Landers (Justine Mitchell) represents the state.

They belong to a Neo-Nazi group with international connections, and are being defended by an attorney with the chilling face and manners of an SS officer.

The battle scenes are appropriately spectacular, with Hogwarts under attack from an army of Death Eaters, Dementors, giants and beasties and defended by a small and dwindling number of students and teachers.

Snape reached for his wand to kill Harry, but the boy was defended by Gryffindor House head Professor Minerva McGonagall (Maggie Smith) with her dueling wand.

Adequate body sodium content is necessary for maintenance of blood volume, renal perfusion and many other physiological functions, and these variables are strongly defended by the body.

Gluten is the aspartame of the 21st century; maligned by the health community, and defended by its loyal consumers.

The current study study is also a part of an upcoming doctoral thesis, which will be defended by Dr Firas L. Tarish at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet on 13 November 2015.

The theses and dissertations found through the link will be publicly defended by doctoral degree candidates.

Peers Higher levels of bullying are reported in classrooms where victims are not defended by their peers than in classrooms where students intervene on the victims» behalf.

The nests are defended by soldiers, but there aren't always enough troops to go around.

This bizarre and cruel practice was defended by the notion that rabies was caused by worms in the animal's mouth and the «operation» would stop the disease developing.

He defended himself by saying that by defining the meeting as a «media move,» he was not trying to downplay risks but rather to put some order into the contradictory information that was reaching the citizens in those days.

Despite her lack of experience in constitutional law, Miers was defended by some commentators who posited that corporate law experience would come in handy when the court hears business cases.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) today issued a legal opinion that the controversial logging, which had been defended by Poland's government, is illegal.

This allows a trade - off in which plants are well defended by bodyguard ants, without these scaring away pollinators.»

This year, we were bested by a trivia - hungry supercomputer, mesmerized by a zombie apocalypse, and defended by a veritable army of superheroes.

He defended himself by explaining that those appointments had been pro forma and that he had treated the panel as an independent entity.

The performance of the universal credit programme has been defended by the work and pensions secretary.

The payment was denounced by Republicans but defended by Silver.

However, despite having been defended by Schools Minister Nick Gibb just a few months ago as being necessary to «ensure that pupils receive an inclusive and broad - based education», the Government has decided to shelve the cap, allow religious schools to become entirely single - faith in their intake, and then introduce new measures to break down the further segregation this will cause.

The payment was denounced by Republicans but defended by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan.

This comes on the heels of Ball's press conference yesterday at which he was defended by an ex-girlfriend and other women who accused his opponents of smearing his good name.

He was defended by Iain Duncan Smith, another politician whose intelligence is as small as his imagination.

Yes, indeed, he had exploited a system he created, a system blessed and defended by Gottfried and Glick, and by Silver's successor as speaker, Carl Heastie, and by every other pliant member of the Assembly.

The decision on child benefit was defended by senior Lib Dems even though at their conference a fortnight ago they voted to protect child benefit.

Labour emerged almost entirely unscathed (even to the point of being defended by Mr Easton over its misuse of statistics).

Mr Robbins, who is defended by the likes of Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood and Conservative Chief Whip Julian Smith, is often described as a clever man.

He defended himself by repeatedly saying that he is not racist and apologizing to anyone he has hurt with his comments the prior night or any other time, while offering his appearance the day before with the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson as evidence of his good character.

The seat held by the party was not defended by them for the election, and the space was taken by a Conservative.

And I told her I was attacked by Harriet Harman [Labour's deputy leader] and defended by Michael Winner, and she said: «What on earth were you up to?

Sessions said that DACA could not be successfully defended by the Justice Department and suggested that Obama overstepped his executive boundaries in enacting the program.

But in the Commons the programme was robustly defended by culture minister Matt Hancock, who said he was especially happy with Robinson being sent to California.

But NYSUT declined to issue endorsements in other Long Island Senate races, including the seats being defended by Republicans Kemp Hannon and Education Committee Chairman Carl Marcellino.

Culture Secretary Maria Miller has been defended by the leader of the House of Commons over her apology to MPs, following an inquiry into her expenses.

Roy Moore's friend and fellow Vietnam veteran defended him by saying the GIOP U.S. Senate candidate had refused to remain at a brothel staffer with underage sex workers during the war.

«If the proposed appeal does proceed we understand that it will be robustly defended by Laura in order to vindicate the humane, carefully considered and entirely lawful judgment of Mr Justice Colton.

That position was defended by Mr Cameron in his press conference in Downing Street yesterday.

Her position was defended by Conservative MP Robin Walker, who before entering politics worked in the mining sector.

The plans have been extensively defended by ministers who point to the low level of increases for those earning between # 15,000 and # 21,000.

Nicholson's position was defended by Robert Francis» final report into the failings at Mid-Staffordshire, which said «scapegoats» should be avoided.

Aran constitutes in Catalonia a national reality with its own personality and differentiated, based in the fact that the Aranese community has a common, shared and common language and culture with the rest of Occitania, and, at the same time, an ancient tradition of self - government firmly defended by the Aranese over time.

But he has been defended by the prime minister, who has backed the Francis inquiry into Mid-Staffordshire's conclusion there should be no individual «scapegoats».

The independent expenditure effort is also spending $ 35,600 polling key races for Senate Republicans including the districts being defended by Sens. George Amedore, Kemp Hannon, Terrence Murphy and Bill Larkin in addition to the races that included candidates Chris Jacobs and Phillips.

Some of these Independent candidates are former representatives of existing political parties: for example, the ex-Labour MP Tony Clarke is standing in his old seat of Northampton South (which should helpfully split the Left wing vote in the seat being defended by Conservative MP Brian Binley), whilst John Stevens, who is challenging John Bercow in Buckingham, is an ultra-europhile former Tory MEP who set up the Pro-Euro Conservative Party before joining the Liberal Democrats.

Virtually all the Conservative - held marginals are being defended by MPs who gained their seats (mainly from Labour) in 2010.