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Mexico's beleaguered president Enrique Peña Nieto has once again become the target of public anger after attempting to defend a 20% hike in gasoline prices that has provoked a wave of violent demonstration and looting across the country this week.

But perhaps most strikingly, Collins is attempting to defend a doctrine of emergent properties that does not become prominent in English philosophy until Mill's System of Logic (1843) Collins deals in passing with determinism and freedom of the will in the 1707 08 correspondence with Samuel Clarke and in his 1707 book An Essay concerning the Use of Reason.

On Shaftesbury Avenue, scene of some of the worst clashes, Territorial Support Group officers attempting to defend an HSBC bank were attacked with bottles, sticks, bricks and traffic cones.

Even the original clearly attempted something more worthwhile than mocking the afflicted, but Hurley's staging contextualises the single act with a spoken prologue and epilogue in which the symbolic figure of Health is presented as a government minister heard on the radio attempting to defend an unpopular NHS policy to a noisy House of Commons.

But that rule has nothing whatever to do with the situation of a grand jury witness who has refused to testify and attempts to defend a subsequent charge of contempt.

Unfortunately they lost their fly-half David Skrela on Thursday with an ankle injury that is unlikely to settle Gallic nerves as they attempt to defend a wafer-thin points advantage of four over Ireland.

"Invasive species," Monbiot complains, "challenge attempts to defend a unique and distinctive fauna and flora" – just as anti-immigration demagogues claim that foreigners will destroy a unique and distinctive British culture.

"This ruling shreds any vestige of legality with which the U.K. government had attempted to defend a completely unlawful and reprehensible policy, introduced as part of its counterterrorism measures". Similar questions -- What constitutes torture?

Cyber-security professionals are in essence playing an endless game of cat and mouse, whereby a would-be attacker attempts to enter a system while security professionals attempt to defend a computer system from attack by applying continuous patches.

The natural connections between informal logic and epistemology are evident in Goldman 1999, who attempts to defend an account of knowledge and the acquisition of knowledge which situates knowledge within social interactions that take place within interpersonal exchange and knowledge institutions.

Attempting to defend such a point might at first seem impossible.