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Newsweek 's cover story is so defensive about endorsing the summit and its goal--encouraging voluntarism to help (who else?)
You’ll see the outlines of walls, including the defensive Themistoklean Wall, between the bushes or under the turf as you stroll.
But if some of Gore's criticisms of Bradley are fair, others are totally unfair, and all are part of a transparent effort to keep his opponent on the defensive.
Such remarks inspire Storr's rather defensive observation that "unlike fascist art and architecture, Smith's sculptures and buildings were insistently built to human rather than superhuman scale."
Deir Es-Suryani, as the name suggests, was a community of Syrian monks and its neighbor, Deir Anba Bishoi, is of typical design with a tiny round-domed fourth-century church and inner defensive bastion dating from the ninth century.