Sentence examples for cause to defend from inspiring English sources

Ms Blackman comes to the job of children's laureate with a cause – to defend multiculturalism and to stimulate the creation of more books which address the British black and minority ethnic experience.

This is where some of the best dreams and desires for jazz in America, neither commercial nor bohemian, come out in a burst: jazz is a cause to defend, a collective memory, a spiritual thing, a Harlem thing.

Though this newspaper and this reporter are thoroughly convinced that globalisation is both inevitable and also, on balance, a very good thing, it can be a hard cause to defend to those who have lost jobs as a direct result of it.

Russia says it is a legitimate cause to defend the rights of people like this who look east rather than west.

In her memory, we devote our actions to a just cause; to defend what is right and to protect the interest of not only shareholders but most importantly the far more important stakeholders of employees, drivers and customers whose lives have been forever altered by the abiding faith and fervent hard work of Travis Kalanick and the Uber team.

San Martín was aware that the new enlightened ideas at stake in the Napoleonic Wars influenced many of the Spanish military, and expected to convince Zabala that absolutism was a bad cause to defend.

All these had causes to defend or stories to tell: the development of jazz as a self-conscious art form; the centrality of the music's prehistory; the importance of prescient or outlying musicians to jazz history; the role of jazz in healing America's race trauma.

At Pioneer Standard Electronics, James L. Bayman, the chairman and chief executive, could receive up to $500,000 toward his legal fees should the company be taken over and cause him to defend the legality of his golden parachute.

Never criticize your partner in public, as this will cause her to defend herself and your relationship will be damaged.

Newton had already replaced cause and effect with functional relationships; however, to make himself understood to his contemporaries, in the third book of his Principia (1726) he spoke about causes (especially to defend his position of what can be called a minimal sufficient cause).

Mr. Zimmerman, who got out of his car to pursue Mr. Martin, claimed a confrontation occurred that caused him to defend himself because he "reasonably believed" he would be harmed.