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Example sentences for: defend

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Pro-choicers defend the right to abortion as an extension of the "civil rights" granted to blacks and women.
Am I motivated to criticize Toobin in part by a desire to defend Isikoff from the slime in Vast Conspiracy ? You bet.
Clintonites say the decision to appeal that ruling is essentially pro forma ; the solicitor general rarely chooses not to not defend the constitutionality of a law the president has signed.
"So great was the inequity of Nixon's downfall that future historians may well conclude he would have been justified in allowing events to take their course and in subjecting the nation to the prolonged paralysis of a public impeachment, which at least would have given him the opportunity to defend himself by due process of law.
The papers note that Bumpers made no effort to defend President Clinton's conduct, calling it "indefensible, outrageous, unforgivable, shameless."