The phrase "causes defended" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing advocacy or support for specific issues or beliefs.
Example: "The organization focuses on various social causes defended by its members."
Alternatives: "issues supported" or "causes advocated".
Horst Mahler went on to become a lawyer, got involved with left-wing causes, defended Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, of the Red Army Faction, took part in a plot to get Baader out of prison, was himself imprisoned in 1970, got out in 1980, resumed the practice of law, and eventually became known as a defender of Hitler and denier of the Holocaust.
But since causes defended by a minority are often those most opposed by persons in power, legal channels may be less than wholly effective.
Many in the community rallied to her cause, defending Sister Ping as a heroic figure who had escorted a generation of immigrants out of poverty in China to a better life in the United States.
"If I am given a thousand lives, I will sacrifice them all for the sake of Allah, fighting this cause, defending our lands, making the word of Allah supreme over any religion or system".
Gilligan wrote in 2013, a decade after Kelly's death: "Even now, almost precisely 10 years since David Kelly's last journey, we are still learning just how extraordinary and inexcusable the behavior of our rulers was — both towards him, and in the wider cause, defending the Iraq war, for which he was outed and died".
In lieu of flowers please send donations to an organization that cares for women and children living with HIV/ AIDS in Africa--one of the many causes Patrice defended with extra-ordinary talent and passion.
He was widely quoted in the news media over the years on a range of Jewish issues, including Zionism, a cause he defended ardently and about which he wrote frequently.
Miller could have championed the cause, and defended the honour, of the peloton had he found the time to talk to CIRC.
Reflecting on Japan's 15 years of war before its defeat and immense suffering that was caused, he defended the pacifist constitution as not something imposed on the nation by the United States but as "a ray of light".
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.
In the past, the center has defended causes as varied as the right of street artists to peddle outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art and challenged the firing or demotion of African-American and Latino teachers who failed to pass a newly instituted state teacher exam.
