Players can gain an advantage by successfully predicting whether their opponent will attack or defend.

Calvinists condemned as idolatry many worship practices regardless of the practices' antiquity or widespread adoption among Christians, which their opponents defended with tradition.

Saxe calculated that his numerically inferior opponents would not be able to adequately defend two fortified cities at once.

Ross said he believed in a balanced offense that made opponents defend the entire field.

He tried to slide in the choke and the opponent defended by lowering the jaw, using the bone to protect the potentially vulnerable artery in the neck.

His opponent - a tall, lean man wearing the grey habit of a monk beneath his mask and mail-shirt - defended desperately.

Professor Baltimore's opponents defended the move.

Lysander's political opponents may have defended Athens not out of gratitude, but out of fear of making Lysander too powerful.

"40 A leading opponent of legalized gambling in Missouri defended his cause by saying: "This is not the religious right.

Warner's Republican opponent never enthusiastically defended the standards.