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Example sentences for: defends

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The Washington Legal Foundation a Washington, D.C., organization that defends private property rights sued in federal court in 1997 to overturn the practice.
Deacon Don Thomas of the Lily of the Valley Church of God in Christ in Fairbanks, Alaska, defends what he does to reach the community: "Yeah, we want to compel people to come to Christ, but at the same time we don't want to intrude on people.
In a 1997 column, he defends flying the Confederate flag over the South Carolina capitol because the Civil War "did not begin over slavery."
Jesse Helms defends the Senate's defeat of the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty.
For example, she is fearful that her 5-year-old will someday date a person of another race, and she defends those who (as she puts it) "want to preserve their traditions."