The Berlin Treaty did not release England from this distinct and individual obligation nor did she wish to divide the honor of being the defender of the Armenian Christians.
England had taken on her hands a most difficult task, viz: To be the Protector of the Armenians, while at the same time she wore the belt as champion defender of Turkey against all comers.
Ostensibly through fear of Russian aggression, but really from the preponderance of commercial interests, England has now for more than sixty years been the upholder and defender of the Turkish government.
As a defender of the rights of the laity he ranged himself on the more liberal side.
His object was to show how an unseen enemy had pushed his parallels up to the very walls, and to summon to the defence "some one who should be as nearly the ideal defenderof religion as the Fragmentist was the ideal assailant.
The doctrines of Thomas Aquinas and other celebrated schoolmen, and the teachings of the best modern authorities were here poetically combined, and the poet was hailed on every side as the ablest defender of the tenets of the Church of Rome.
He was trying to devise some plan by which he might save the brave defender of Berlin, whose presence, after such positive proof, he could no longer deny.
I would not betray the enemy himself, if he sought refuge in my house; and you ask me not to betray the most valiant and renowned defender of Berlin.
The outwitting of Cromwell by Hugh O'Neill, the gallantdefender of Clonmel, is one of the lighter episodes of an era of tragedy.
But the duke had a brave defender in the person of his son, Lord Ossory, the handsomest and most hot-tempered man of his day.
It means, if I remember rightly, 'a defenderof his kindred.
But it wouldn't have been so happy if the defender of his kindred hadn't slaved on the high seas 'for to maintain his brither and me,' like Henry Martin in the ballad.
And Ken, he says your name's good Anglo-Saxon and means 'a defender of his kindred.
Here again the defender is confronted with grave difficulties.
It was no Puritan, but Jeremy Taylor, the staunch defender of monarchy and episcopacy, who hit the nail on the head.
When Henry VIII, in 1521, wrote his attack on Luther embodied in the Assertion of the Seven Sacraments, Pope Leo X gave him the title of "Defender of the Faith.
Coupled with this was the idea of nobility on one side, and the idea of inheritance on the other, which had a tendency to unify the family under one defender and to perpetuate the right and title to property of future generations.
The difference of opinion called out a fierce attack by Henry VIII on Luther, which gave the king the title of "Defender of the Faith.
Henry VIII, "Defender of the Faith," was opposed to religious liberty.
To prevent this the assailant must engage the defender along his whole line so that all the defending forces are fully occupied and there are none to spare for the critical point or region.
But the moment the point of attack is recognised by the defender he will collect every available battery and rifleman from all parts of his line and place them on that portion of his front which commands the path of the assailant.
As a Catholic king, Head of the Church and Defender of the Faith, there was no room in his plans for a Lutheran queen.
Parenthetically, may I ask you to observe, that though a fearless defender of some forms of slavery, I am no defender of the slave trade.
I dislike these clearings at the setting of the sun, O defender of the poor!
Mem Sahib, defender of the poor, which will assuredly bring you happiness.
The Quakers found a defender in An humble apology for the Quakers, occasioned by certain gross abuses and imperfect vindications of that people, .
Infant," he said, "I'm glad you are so stalwart a defender of your old inviolate Notting Hill.
As the defender of democracy he had frequently to face serious dangers.
Meanwhile a new defender had sprung up for exhausted Protestantism.
But presently she said: "Tell me, Sir Knight, why did you do so grievous a hurt to our knight-champion who was the defender of this land against those who would meddle with the fountain to bring a deluge upon our land.
For if this knight overcame Sir Sagron, then is he better than Sir Sagron, and so he is better to be the defender of the Fountain.
And in that reconciliation there was much rejoicing, for all the town was bedraped with silken scarves and banners by day and illuminated by night because of joy for the return of the champion-defender of the Fountain.
To stand in the gap, to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing danger; to take the place of a fallen defender or supporter.
Defn: A follower of Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the 4th century, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius.
The Roman Catholic shook his clinched fist at the Protestant, the liberal at the conservative, the protectionist at the free-trader, the partisan of absolute government at the defender of the people's rights.
Wilberforce, the defender of the negro, was not black himself.
He felt he had a defender and support in Frau Brohl.
Those who believe in the possibility of attaching a renegade to the soil of his adoption and converting him into a serviceabledefender of that soil in a moment of need, commit a great error in politics.
England, and civil war began in the autumn, but in 1412 the Armagnacs in their turn sought English aid, and, by promising the sovereignty of Aquitaine to the English king, gave John the opportunity of posing as defender of France.
The fear lest Sigismund might re-catholicize the land alarmed the Protestant majority in Sweden, and Charles came forward as their champion, and also as the defender of the Vasa dynasty against foreign interference.
