verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lawyer acts for/defends/represents sb
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a group of lawyers who represent the airline
defend a majority (= try not to lose it )
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He is defending a majority of 400 against his Labour opponent.
defend a position
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Each of the next three speakers defended a different position.
defend a right (= take action to stop a right being taken away )
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We should defend our right to demonstrate.
defend sb's/sth's honour (= do something to protect it when it is being attacked )
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To defend his honour and his business interests, he was prepared to go to court.
defend/protect yourself from your enemies
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Our country has a right to protect itself from its enemies.
maintain/preserve/defend the status quo (= not make any changes )
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Will the West use its influence to maintain the status quo and not disrupt the flow of oil?
support/defend/back sb to the hilt
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I’m backing the PM to the hilt on this.
the defending/reigning champion (= the present one )
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Cheah defeated the defending champion in the National Grand Prix.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
successfully
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Heaton Mersey Village visited Wayfarers and scored 142 all out, a total they successfully defended bowling out Wayfarers for 112.
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Democrats successfully defended more than a dozen others.
vigorously
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Utilitarianism has been both vigorously defended and attacked in the last few decades.
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Frame said the suit is without merit and it will be defended vigorously .
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The club has vigorously defended the mayor against attacks by other disabled advocates who say Brown has done little for them.
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We will defend vigorously the libel proceedings commenced us by Virgin and its owner and any other proceedings they choose to commence.
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In an interview on Friday, Kerry vigorously defended his fund-raising.
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The resulting competition probably causes the animals to occupy small but adequate territories which are vigorously defended by a monogamous pair.
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The schools vigorously defend the trips.
■ NOUN
action
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Indeed, the responsibility and necessity for such action to defend children against parental mistreatment is strongly emphasised.
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In accordance with instructions, the officers took no action to defend themselves, although they were armed.
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The action is jointly defended by the historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy, who supplied much of the information for the pamphlet.
attack
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The houses next to the river had no owners; they were broken down and ruined, but could be defended against attack .
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That stresses, above all, that one should defend first and attack second.
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The club has vigorously defended the mayor against attacks by other disabled advocates who say Brown has done little for them.
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Instead, the arsenal ship would have relied on other warships to defend it against missile attacks .
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Paredes saw that neither diplomacy nor duplicity were of any avail and prepared to defend the city against attack .
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Paul D looked at the black trees lining the roadside, their defending arms raised against attack .
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Champfleury, for a time the leading advocate of Realism, defended that school against attacks made during the 1853 Salon.
champion
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Stuart Bingham, 23, from Basildon beat the defending champion 10-7.
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The defending champions ended up second, the bronze medalists fifth.
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In Istanbul Galatasaray fought back from two goals down to beat defending champions Real Madrid 3-2 in the other quarter-final.
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Ronnie Black is the defending champion .
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All year long, the Bruins were living with the fame and adulation of being defending national champions .
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A marvelous comeback, erasing a 24-point deficit against the two-time defending world champions .
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Distractions are everywhere, especially for a defending champion .
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She is the current two-time defending national rhythmic gymnastics champion .
charge
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Certainly I defended the community charge , which gave Labour councils in many areas the fright of their lives.
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Minorities are in a position of having to defend themselves against that charge .
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The state decided to defend the charges .
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Those fans who have defended Diamond against charges of pomposity will really love this record.
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Yet both defended themselves against the charge of infidelity.
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She defends the charges , saying they were necessary for Oxygen to finance a schedule of new programming.
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They were forced, as never before, to defend themselves against the charge of illegitimacy.
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Lemos resigned on March 25, allegedly in indignation at the failure of Barco to defend him against opposition charges .
country
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Just consider two generals defending your country and they both botch it.
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With one of the slenderest majorities to defend anywhere in the country , Mr Forsyth could be forgiven if he looked worried.
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They had been driven by brute necessity to defend one country .
decision
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Strong oral and written communication skills are essential for analysts to prepare, present, and defend budget proposals to decision makers.
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Yesterday the school defended its decision to allow a convicted fraudster to lecture students.
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But the council is defending its decision ... it says it has to find savings to balance its budget.
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The cost of this extended power is that governors will be liable to defend their decision before an industrial tribunal.
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He will, however, have to start defending them and other decisions still in the pipeline.
honour
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At least she died defending her honour .
policy
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But the rhetoric of those who defended government policy in the early 1680s was explicitly legalist in nature.
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The most difficult thing for Brown was defending a policy in public that he opposed in private.
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Home Secretary Kenneth Baker strongly defended his party's policies on crime.
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News organizations were quick to defend their policies , and some competitors saw the Fox announcement as a potential grab for publicity.
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Governments in the 1990s have sometimes found it difficult to gather the statistical information they need to make and defend policy .
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But he made employers wonder if they might end up defending their own policies at the courthouse.
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Yet it is very much less easy to defend the policy of expecting parents to buy their children's books.
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And beyond that, in October, loom the television debates where Bush will be required to defend his policies and plans.
position
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His father was ageing, unsure, falling back on old prejudices to defend his position .
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Crises are characterized by anger, miscommunications, defending of positions and unwillingness to listen.
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Firms may use advertising to defend their existing position or to signal to potential entrants that incursions will be challenged.
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Since Devon seldom attended the groups' meetings, Ray was left to defend his position alone.
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As a seedsman, how do you intend to defend your position ?
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Diligently, even angrily, we express, discuss, and defend our ostensibly knowledgeable positions .
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Even the actions taken by governments may be inadequate to defend the position of the weak in society.
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Each of the next three speakers defended a different position .
record
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He would defend that title a record 12 times.
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Few, however, defend Vassiliev's record .
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John Gummer was not even on the Tory platform for a press conference to defend the Government's record on animal welfare.
right
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But it will defend equally vigorously the rights of women who choose to look after their children full-time.
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However, the liberal California court defended the right of teachers to petition for redress of grievances.
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Each of us is called to defend the rights of all.
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They were defending the right of the pamphleteer to publish ideas that were unpopular in society or inconvenient for the state.
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One threatened to call out the National Guard to defend Atlanta's water rights .
territory
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One of my pairs is actually reluctant to spawn if there is no-one from whom to defend their territory .
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Each was thus able to become a robust and self-aware entity, ready to defend its territory and its independence.
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Defended flowers can therefore be exploited more efficiently and it can pay a sunbird to defend a territory .
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A large mink can also travel further and defend a larger territory .
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For the rest of the year they wander their home ranges or defend their territories against all-comers.
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The third strategy involves intermediate-sized males behaving opportunistically: they call from potential egg-laying sites but do not defend territories .
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At the end of the summer, he must seek out and defend a territory .
title
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Though he had defeated heavyweight champion Sonny Liston and defended his title nine times, Ali never had a dramatic constituency before.
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Goltz has posted the best all-around score in the state this season and is favored to defend her all-around title .
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In the Ladies' Singles, Jenny Binns is defending the title she won for the first time last year.
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The Women's World Heavyweight Champion had defended her title at three consecutive events, each time soundly beating her opponents.
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He hopes to be fit to defend his Masters title at the end of next month and has begun light training.
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He and subsequent champions refused to defend their titles against blacks.
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While Johnson was prevented from defending his title in the United States, Ali had his taken from him.
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Hilary Walker will defend the women's title .
■ VERB
force
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We are forced to defend a system we know to be indefensible.
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But Momich has been forced to defend his right to operate his business in the courts.
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Okioc has been forced to defend its prospecting by calling in experts to look at the seal deaths.
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There she had been rudely thrown upon the hard ground and had been forced to defend herself.
help
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As they built in each new feature, they discussed how it would help to defend the castle from attackers.
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Understanding the Role of Antibodies Antibodies are protein substances manufactured by the human immune system to help defend us against diseases.
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Some drugs spark off this emergency response and help their targets to defend themselves.
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We have brought the barbarian across the Rhine in order to help defend our frontiers.
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All: Lord, help us to defend the oppressed.
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We have helped support and defend this city for decades.
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In contrast, female clownfish lay their eggs around sea anemones which they subsequently help to defend .
need
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Uncertain how the children might react, I thought it would perhaps come in handy if I needed to defend myself.
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She needed to defend herself against this critic.
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Governments in the 1990s have sometimes found it difficult to gather the statistical information they need to make and defend policy.
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Those rights which have been established, need to be defended , and therefore access to effective legal resource is indispensable.
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She no longer felt that she needed to defend herself, or even to account for herself, there.
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But this assumption is what an opponent of a holist theory of history needs to defend .
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She feels she needs this information to defend herself.
prepare
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As I have said before, if people advocate spending and tax increases, they should be prepared to defend them.
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Paredes saw that neither diplomacy nor duplicity were of any avail and prepared to defend the city against attack.
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Lawyers are usually required to prepare cases and defend them.
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Nobody is prepared to defend it very much.
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If they take any other course of action they must be prepared to defend it.
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But if I and mine prepare to defend the kingdom, you and yours must do the same.
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Unlike the Weimar Republic, the Bonn Republic is prepared to defend itself.
seek
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Throughout his life he sought to defend an idea of Britishness that was becoming increasingly outmoded.
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There is no advantage to be gained by Opposition Members seeking to defend the indefensible.
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Yet far from seeking to defend free speech, the Government is proposing to subject the media to even fewer controls.
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In the absence of these things, I seek to defend the present service as the best achievable.
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In this chapter, I have sought to defend this concessive holist view by drawing attention to the explanatory interest underlying it.
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At the end of the summer, he must seek out and defend a territory.
try
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If you just try to defend and hold out against them, it wears you down.
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Up there, it was like trying to defend cholera to a bunch of doctors.
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Why had she even wasted time trying to defend herself?
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No one could defend them; no one would ever try to defend the fate Pentheus suffered.
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Close to the tree was a shattered tumbler, which police believe Elizabeth used to try to defend herself.
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Should we flee or stay and try to defend ourselves?
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Michael told the Old Bailey he had tried to defend his brother Lee, 13, before his father turned on him.
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Zanger said he never tried to defend himself against Baldwin and only tried to protect his camera with the videotape inside.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Carey vigorously defended his fund-raising methods.
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Carson claims he was defending himself when he struck the other man.
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Cox moved quickly to defend her record as state senator.
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Everyone was shouting at me, and I never got a chance to defend myself.
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Freis defended a local radio station in a discrimination suit.
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Her speech defended the workers' right to strike.
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Hundreds of soldiers died while defending the town.
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It's difficult to defend a sport that involves hurting animals.
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She has repeatedly tried to defend her husband against hostile criticism in the press.
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The castle was built in 1549 to defend the island against invaders.
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The Fire Chief defended his staff and said that they had done everything possible to save the girl's life.
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The union said they would take action to defend their members' jobs.
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US troops in Panama will only be used to defend the Canal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But if the worst happens, you have every right to defend yourself with reasonable force.
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Eliot, who might have defended himself, let Shildon's bitterness go unremarked.
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For 42 desperate minutes Boro defended stoutly, but held on.
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For the rest of the year they wander their home ranges or defend their territories against all-comers.
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Kelly had another good solid game, making a couple of very good runs forward, and using his pace when defending.
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She is the current two-time defending national rhythmic gymnastics champion.