Brooks wants the Met to stand up and accept its failings over the last two decades, not only in the Lawrence case but in other murder cases where police have spent a huge amount of money defending their own officers when there were no grounds to defend them.
At the same time, said Laura Nichols, the spokeswoman for the House minority leader, Representative Richard A. Gephardt, "the president expended a fair amount of currency defending Ashcroft".
In an early draft, of which only fragments survive, Washington, Chernow writes, "spent a ridiculous amount of time defending his decision to become president, as if he stood accused of some heinous crime".
This may sound like yet another anti-freemium rant, but I don't have form on that score: I've spent a fair amount of time defending these games over the last few years, as free-to-play became the dominant model on the app stores.
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young: "Some of our defence was heroic, but you can't spend the amount of time defending that we did against a side like that.
In its decision Monday in the Hobby Lobby case, the conservative Supreme Court majority that upheld corporations' religious objections to birth control spends an inordinate amount of time defending itself from the reasoning and wrath of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissent. .
As the author of a book called Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide, and moderator of a website of resources for this community that averages 1,500 visitors each month, I have spent a fair amount of time defending, supporting and helping to educate women who make this choice.
He spent an inordinate amount of time defending all the GOP competitors against the depredations of the media, haughtily refusing to take the opportunity to break with his fellows and establish interesting contrasts that may have set him apart from the field, in order to condemn lines of questioning that Gingrich found to be divisive.
Mr Singh is appealing.Like other media organisations, this newspaper has a vested interest in changing English libel law (it regularly spends large amounts of money defending itself, usually successfully, in libel actions).
