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Example sentences for: defend

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During the war, Kovner had vainly tried to defend the Jewish ghetto in Vilna, Poland, and at the war's end he banded together with other ghetto-defenders and partisans.
In each country, political figures find it difficult to publicly defend good relations with the other.
I would defend Clinton's apology as a statement of aspiration.
According to Mark Pietrzyk's exposé in the Oct. 3, 1994, New Republic , the state of Colorado initially hired Cameron as an expert witness to defend its statute restricting gay-rights ordinances, then elected not to use his testimony after it got a closer look.
The papers note that Bumpers made no effort to defend President Clinton's conduct, calling it "indefensible, outrageous, unforgivable, shameless."