Sentence examples for defence of state from inspiring English sources

But I was struck by its cavalier defence of state violence and brutalisation.

Mr Amor said the obstacles were created by UN officials, apparently acting 'either on their own initiative or in defence of state interests'.

But what I want to hear is a passionate defence of state funding, an assurance that a new culture minister will have a seat at the top table, and as big a commitment to regional growth and innovation as to shoring up the established institutions.

While Le Pen framed this fixation on the dietary requirements of her fellow citizens as a defence of state secularism, the FN mayor of the south-western town of Arveyres, Benoit Gheysens, suggested the move was simply to cut costs and to prevent "staff being distressed" by excessive food waste.

While Le Pen framed this fixation on the dietary requirements of her fellow citizens as a defence of state secularism, the FN mayor of the south-western town of Arveyres, Benoit Gheysens, suggested the move was simply to cut costs and to prevent "staff being distressed" by excessive food waste.

It was now Northerners who objected to this extension of federal power and who accordingly rallied to the defence of state's rights.

It presumes deportation and wants to know how, not whether.9 26: I sense a game of one-upmanship coming along, on the subject of the border fence.9 24: The strong states'-rights stance requires coming to the defence of state-level mandates.9 23: Bachmann claims state mandates are unconstitutional, but there's no question that they are not.9 23: Michele is warming up.

The defence of states and rights is impossible to undertake if no one learns from the past or believes in the future.

Yet only the genuinely perverse can seriously believe that to extol the confederacy, even in defence of states' rights today, is not also at some level to give some legitimacy to slavery.

During the civil-rights era, segregationists often couched their position as a defence of "states' rights"; and Reagan's endorsement of those rights at a Mississippi county fair, while campaigning for the presidency in 1980, sealed his success in the South.

During the war, Lord Gilbert was defence minister of state formally responsible for intelligence.