Sentence examples for apologists from inspiring English sources

The apologists for the excesses of capitalism have always possessed a talent for representing their greed as essential to the national interest.

We now know that for all the claims made by supporters and apologists, who say she hassled the apartheid regime for the release of Nelson Mandela, she actually made little or no effort to raise the issue during talks with the hardline South African president PW Botha at Chequers on 2 June 1984.

For-profits are often presented as the sole "bad apples" in the higher education system, but they are not the outliers that higher education apologists make them out to be.

But at least, its apologists always say, first past the post gives you a clear result and a stable government.

What caused hunger was not a collapse of collective farms but science: 'It is high time to realise that today our Morganist-Mendelists are in effect making common cause with the international reactionary force of the bourgeois apologists, not only of the immutability of genes but also of the immutability of the capitalist system... Geneticists have done us tremendous harm.

The government ought to examine the facts of energy pricing with an objectivity of which the providers' apologists are incapable.

Apologists for the old South like to point out that the last action of the war, a skirmish in Texas, resulted in a Confederate victory.

Another is that, like most informed Western apologists for Mr Kagame, he considers his abuses an acceptable bill for his successes.That may be right; though it is not a view widely shared among regional experts, who fear Mr Kagame's reluctance to relax his grip is storing up a future explosion in Rwanda.

Apologists for consolidation reckon that it would lead to the emergence of three or four mega-carriers with national networks.

Apologists say that comparing America with Shanghai is like comparing apples with oranges.

The party's apologists like to point out that abuses can happen at the peak of any political system Richard Nixon and Watergate is a favourite example—but that in China they will be rooted out.