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Example sentences for: defended

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When the Republican nominee portrays Gore as an arrogant Washington politician who won't give back the tax money you overpaid the government, Gore can remind voters that he defended "fiscal responsibility" against Bradley's reckless spending as well as the GOP's reckless tax cuts.
“It's Detroit sometime in the recent future, a city beleaguered by the sleaziest of criminals and defended by a police department that's the subsidiary of a big corporation.”
The stations defended themselves by arguing that they could have showed close-ups of the killing but refrained from doing so.
The comments were condemned by the Reform party chairman, but were defended by the party's Minnesota chairman.
Book Review Editor Charles McGrath defended delivering the spike to Cronin's piece: "I didn't like the tone of the review--I thought it was too snarky.