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Example sentences for: defends

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He defends the cultural-studies journal Social Text and the field of "science studies," even after they were humiliated through a brilliant prank by physicist Alan Sokal.
The editorial defends Vice President Gore.
Some condemn the novel, in which an arrogant barrister who defends rogues is murdered, for its clichéd depiction of lawyering and its unconvincingly tidy ending.
Another editorial defends the "incrementalist" positions that George W. Bush and Elizabeth Dole have taken on abortion.
The story defends this method with the remark that the notion that welfare reform is not "epochal ...