defend

Example sentences

• "State institutions must defend the state.

  "Instituisaun Estadu tenke defende estadu.

• All citizens have the right to health, medical and sanitary assistance and the duty to defend and promote it.

  Sidadaun hotu-hotu iha direitu ba saúde no asisténsia médika no sanitária no mós iha devér atu defende no promove saúde.

• Atoi knows how to attack but doesn't defend.

  Atoi hatene ataka deit maibe la hatene defende.

Examples from the 46,000-sentence English–Tetun parallel corpus.

Phrases using “defend”

• The students are protesting to defend their rights.Estudante sira hala'o protesta hodi defende sira nia diretu.
• If our leaders have a strong inferiority complex, it is difficult for them to defend the interests of the people, because they don't have the courage to oppose people from other groups.Se ita nia lider iha kompleksu dé inferioridade maka'as, sei susar tebes defende interese povu nian, tanba la brani kontra ema hosi grupu seluk.