POLICE COMMISSIONER Defending his promise to fire all of the mayor's current commissioners, including the popular head of the Police Department, Raymond W. Kelly, Mr. Thompson claimed that Mr. Bloomberg's first choice for that job had been Bernard B. Kerik, not Mr. Kelly.
Labour has defended its promise to freeze energy bills until 2017 against criticism that companies were delaying price cuts as wholesale prices fall because of the threat of the policy coming into force after the election.
Saying that Republicans in Congress were treating the projected federal budget surplus "as if they'd won it in the lottery," President Clinton today defended his promise to veto the main tax cuts passed by the House and Senate, and he called for bipartisan cooperation in setting the nation's fiscal priorities.
Clarke, who is black, defended Trump's promise to build a wall to keep undocumented Mexican immigrants out of the United States.
Clark Judge, a former speechwriter for Republican President Ronald Reagan, said Obama was unlikely to dwell on the themes of "hope" and "change" because that would require him to defend promises he did not keep from 2008.
Labour needs to promise to defend them.
But a vague American promise to defend Israel will not quieten mounting anxiety back home.
They both promise to defend Amtrak's federal subsidy, for example.
Mr. Perry was assailed by some of his Republican rivals and by Democrats, who promise to defend the program.
Brazilian officials were dismayed when Don Evans, Mr Bush's choice for secretary of commerce, gave a swift promise to defend steel makers against "unfair competition".
Michael Brune, the Sierra Club's executive director, said he was "thrilled" with Clinton's renewable electricity goal, and her promise to defend Obama's clean power plan.
