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Example sentences for: defended

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Many years ago, the editor of this magazine, who was then the editor of the New Republic , coined an aphorism for political influence peddlers who defended their shady methods on the grounds that they didn't violate the law.
On Fox News Sunday , Steven Brill defended Clinton's silence as a legal tactic to avoid a libel suit.
The current MMO system survives because it is defended by powerful interests who are its beneficiaries.
It is for these reasons that the rights of the fetus must be defended as strongly as those of any other person.
In Rome, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano defended the Dominican order's campaign to beatify Girolamo Savonarola, the fire-and-brimstone monk who was excommunicated, hanged, and burned in Florence 500 years ago.