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Example sentences for: defends

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Rudolph Giuliani defends his handling of the Amadou Diallo shooting to Newsweek . "[The New York Police Department] is not the KKK," he offers.
Paul Cameron, originator of the statistic (publicized by virtue expert William Bennett) that gay males have an average life expectancy of 43 years, defends and explains his calculation in response to a Slate article by Walter Olson debunking it.
A story defends J.P.
Alan Kling defends liposuction, despite a few regrettable deaths.
The cover story defends pork-barrel spending.