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Meanings of defender of the people in English

Russian
защитник народа
Portuguese
defensor del pueblo
Spanish
defensor del pueblo de espana
Catalan
defensor del poble

Spanish ombudsman of the Cortes Generales; responsible for defending fundamental rights and liberties of citizens by supervising the activity of public administrations.

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        Usage of defender of the people in English
        1
        The defender of the people's will versus a parliament that wishes to defy it.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Did that become the defender of the people of England?
        Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 / The Work...
        3
        It portrayed my father as some kind of saint, a defender of the people and pillar of the community.
        The king of lies
        4
        One life, one death is fated for us both, as defenders of the people's rights.
        A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
        5
        They say they are the true keepers of the republican flame, the defenders of the people of Derry.
        The Irish Times
        6
        The bishops of Utrecht, no longer the defenders of the people against arbitrary power, conducted themselves like little popes.
        The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 02: Introduction II
        7
        The Tiphaines declared that the three men were always plotting evil to the government; the Liberals admired them as the defenders of the people.
        Pierrette
        8
        "Your side would not import, but reduce us all-wewho are the defenders of the people-tobeing slaves," he said with some asperity.
        Halcyone