Sentence examples for apologists like from inspiring English sources

It doesn't take much intellectual branch swinging to get from a belief in "female hypergamy" to a belief in "enforced monogamy" as the only way to guarantee "lower-status" men the women these men (and their apologists, like Peterson) assume they deserve.

While there might not have been any active legal proceedings in this instance, it's almost universally agreed that potential rape victims should be protected, precisely because rape apologists like Johnson will seek to shame, intimidate and harm them.

Abolitionists and ex-slaves publicized excruciating details like these, but the world view of pro-slavery apologists like James Henry Hammond, a senator from South Carolina, could not make sense of motivations like Brown's.

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.

The theological anguish of religious apologists like William Safire over natural disasters like the tsunami always makes me wonder why they don't just accept the obvious conclusion that God does not exist.

("Wanted me to cut the ribbon-NO!") But his ability to deride Western European allies and undermine foreign relations for the pettiest of reasons should not be taken as a sign that he is, as his apologists like to put it, an equal-opportunity insulter.

Suárez's apologists follow like ants.

The Red Sox front office has done such a fantastic job of pissing off its fans with classic overthinking from trading away productive players and saving 20 bucks, to signing Nick Punto for two years for no reason that a patently idiotic trade for Jeter would ensure the last few Sox apologists would start liking soccer.

Apologists for Silent Sam like to mention that the soldier's belt has no cartridge box, rendering his gun useless.

Meanwhile, as word about our book has begun to spread in the blogosphere (thank you all), we're getting a fairly good idea that we made the right choice: When a right-wing apologist-blowhard like Jonah Goldberg starts trashing our book five weeks before its release, you know we've hit a nerve.

The decision backfired, as Ohio State Coach Jim Tressel resigned, and Delany and the N.C.A.A. looked like apologists for cheats.