The markets' reaction would have been considerably more panicked, the European trader said, if the explosion had occurred in the Persian Gulf, which is considered well defended, and not in the waters off Yemen.
The frontiers of the society for which Sher and Çîçek 23 are fighting have expanded considerably since they defended Kobanî.
Lazy, degenerate, selfish, good-for-nothing … the kind of comments that, applied to race, gender or ethnicity, would be considerably harder to defend.
If Wade cannot find room in the lane, the Heat offense becomes that much more predictable and, even with James, considerably easier to defend.
Centlivre, considerably annoyed at her critics, defended herself by asserting that it was hardly reasonable to expect a character busy plotting against her husband to express herself "in the words of a Psalm".
Of Henry Miller's misogynistic descriptions of female sexuality, she writes that "the release of such uninhibited emotion, however poisonous, is beyond question advantageous" — a position it is considerably harder to imagine being defended on college campuses in the age of the trigger warning.
Patten defended Entwistle's pay packet, saying it was considerably less than some commercial television executives earned.
But his defending improved considerably towards the end of the season.
Unfortunately, the version of methodological individualism that Popper bequeathed to his student Watkins was considerably more difficult to defend than the one he inherited from Hayek.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg defended the reforms earlier, insisting the Bill had been changed "very considerably" since a pause in the progress of the legislation through Parliament last year.
Many teachers involved in the research defended the practice as a necessary response in dealing with children whose abilities varied considerably.
