“A design problem in writing a short piece is that insufficient space to say things defensibly inevitably generates misunderstandings.”

“In addition, it is essential to construct the question so that correct options are defensibly correct and distracters are defensibly incorrect.”

“Even a good chunk of the much-hailed decline in crime rates is defensibly assigned to full employment.”

“Weeks, who was excellent throughout the fight, was in position, poised to interject at that sickening moment a fighter's neck turns to jelly and his heavy head lolls drunkenly and defencelessly.”

“At the same time, those who are defencelessly exposed to the consequences of the misguided energy policies of the past are themselves suffering from an energy shortage.”

“It thus seeks to 'liberate' the individual from a protective framework offered by collective institutions, and in this way make them defencelessly vulnerable to market forces.”

“Like vultures around the victim, around the burning city the fighter pilots hunt the defenselessly fleeing women, children and old persons with machine guns, into death.”

“For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges of Western commerce, thought, and power.”

“The Indians knew that they could not take this war to England and had to fight defensively.”

“So mental health professionals will be under pressure to practise defensively and, if in doubt, to detain.”

“Reyes runs at defenders with directness and explosive pace and he is not good enough defensively to be regarded as a long term wing solution.”