Sentence examples for a defender of first from inspiring English sources

Savage represented himself as the voice of freedom and a defender of First Amendment rights.

The National Rifle Association NRAA) has long been a defender of Second Amendment rights.

And those of us who really are concerned about constitutional liberties will have to hope he is as ardent a defender of the first and fourteenth amendments as he is of the tenth and second.(Photo credit: Gage Skidmore, via Flickr).

"There's nobody that's more of a defender of the First Amendment than I am," he has often said.

That its humor may turn out to be crummy and cloacal is of no more concern to the President, as a defender of the First Amendment, than it is to Kim Jong-un, as an irreproachable savior of his people.

"Skeet shooting, whether you've done it or not, doesn't make you a defender of the Second Amendment," he said.

But Americans defy categorization, and that same person enjoying Benjamin may be a defender of the Second Amendment, pouring port from a crystal decanter decorated with a shotgun-toting hunter from the old Park Avenue emporium scullyandscully.com.com

Justice Black is often regarded as a leading defender of First Amendment rights such as the freedom of speech and of the press.

Zwingli had considered himself first and foremost a soldier of Christ; second a defender of his country, the Confederation; and third a leader of his city, Zurich, where he had lived for the previous twelve years.

"First base is not an easy position," said catcher Vance Wilson, a defender of Piazza's performance at first for obvious reasons, like his own playing time.

At first a defender of Islam against Christian missionaries, he then later adopted certain doctrines of the Indian Muslim modernist Sayyid Ahmad Khan namely, that Jesus died a natural death and was not assumed into heaven as the Islamic orthodoxy believed and that jihad "by the sword" had been abrogated and replaced with jihad "of the pen".