Usage examples of "оборонять" in Russian with translation to English

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Адмирал Майк Маллен (Mike Mullen), глава Объединённого комитета начальников штабов, сказал, что это «улучшит нашу способность делать то, что мы обязаны делать: защищать и оборонять граждан США». Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it “enhances our ability to do that which we have been charged to do: protect and defend the citizens of the United States.”
Во времена холодной войны, Америка могла оборонять Берлин, потому что наше обещание делать это звучало убедительно и исходило от альянса НАТО, а также в силу присутствия американских войск, чьи жизни бы оказались в опасности в случае атаки со стороны Советского Союза. During the Cold War, the US was able to defend Berlin because our promise to do so was made credible by the NATO alliance and the presence of American troops, whose lives would be on the line in the event of a Soviet attack.
Между тем необходимость оборонять империю вынуждала нас строить всё новые и новые базы и всё активней вмешиваться в дела других стран, что побуждало их сердиться на нас и даже мстить нам, а мы, соответственно, вмешивались из-за этого в их дела ещё больше. And our constant need to defend the empire has required more bases and involvement in other countries’ affairs, fostering resentment and even vengeance, requiring more involvement.
Хотя советские войска были остановлены, они фанатично обороняли каждую пядь земли. Though halted, the Soviets fanatically defended every square foot.
Израильтянам придется отказаться от территории, на которой расположены поселения и которые не могут быть легко обороняемы. Israel would give up some territory containing settlements that could not be easily defended.
(Здесь невынужденная ошибка: Повстанцы ценой собственной жизни должны оборонять генератор, чтобы противник не разоблачил полностью их эвакуацию.) (That’s an unforced error: The Rebels need to protect that generator at the cost of their lives, lest their evacuation be totally exposed.)
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