The phrase 'defend a project' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe the act of defending against criticism of, or attacks on, a particular project. For example: "My boss asked me to defend the project against the criticism from our competitors."
But despite this prestige, monks are now at considerable pains to preserve the dignity of the temple and defend a project that has been roundly denounced as both greedy and gaudy.
Even the pro-Israel lobby struggles to defend a project that is making Palestinians strangers on their ancestral soil, settlements timed to blow up any American-sponsored peace talks, settlements that are gobbling up the land that for 25 years has been intended as a future Palestinian state subject to security guarantees for Israel and mutually agreed trade-offs about boundaries.
He defended a project that many considered indefensible with good humour, a stance that evoked admiration and criticism in equal measure.
While it might be expected for a business partner of Mr. Trump's to promote their venture, Mr. Figueiredo goes beyond simply defending a project, as backers of a Trump tower under construction in neighboring Uruguay have done.
The CSE Master's of Engineering program requires that students complete and defend a thesis project.
Each student must plan an individually selected program of study, approved in advance by the faculty advisor, and must complete, and orally defend, a substantial project of significant value.
Master of Science (MS) students are expected to prepare and defend a research project with a thesis or a non-thesis option.
Mr. Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president and an avowed environmentalist, suddenly found himself at odds with an important part of his political base, defending a Brazilian project that could increase deforestation.
For 70 days Chinese troops defending a highway project on the Doklam Plateau faced Indian counterparts called by Bhutan for help.
by the end of Year 1. Qualifying Exam: Students submit a written Prospectus motivating and describing their Ph.D. project, and defend their Prospectus via an oral Area Exam, by the beginning of Year 3. Thesis: Students submit and publicly defend a Dissertation describing their research project and reporting key findings and conclusions.
Genuine social democrat revisionists - believing we represented purity of purpose - marched into a corner labelled "Labour Luddites" and allowed the high priests of "the project" to defend a ragbag of policies by simply saying their critics wanted to disinter the programme on which Labour was defeated in 1970 and 1979.
