defend themselves against

Aircraft carriers and their accompanying ships are unable to defend themselves against such a threat.

It did not rest on a concept of personal human rights that ordinary people could call on to defend themselves against unjust rulers.

In the wide spaces of eastern Europe, towns needed to be able to defend themselves against raids by Turkish or Tartar horsemen.

Taiwan could have the latest and greatest of everything, but they still would never be able to defend themselves against China.

Therefore , anyone worth robbing is powerful enough to defend themselves against your attacks .

Military jets and helicopter gunships were unleashed upon people who had no means to defend themselves against assaults from the air.

If it is compromised, then the bees could not defend themselves against pesticides or fungal infections or bacteria or poor nutrition.

They must also hire lawyers to defend themselves against attacks by other lawyers on a playing field built by lawyers.

Both sides stockpile weapons to defend themselves against possible attack.

But economies like China, South Korea and Taiwan now have more reserves than they need to defend themselves against shocks.

All our officers are trained to defend themselves against knife attacks.

carry large pieces of food and defend themselves against enemies.

They made weapons to defend themselves against their enemy.

Grapes actually produce resveratrol in order to defend themselves against invasion by fungus.

The law allows people to defend themselves against a charge.

Sheep are pretty dumb and helpless. They get lost easily, they can't defend themselves against other animals.

The Forsaken Undead defend themselves against the Scourge