Sentence examples for defend a system from inspiring English sources

Can we in the long run defend a system in which certain priests are always blocked from being bishops, he asks.

How else to defend a system in which it is perfectly legal for someone to buy a dozen assault rifles and then sell them with no background checks in a parking lot?

And I don't see why conservatives ought to defend a system that permits securitizing mortgages (or car loans) in a way that seems to make the lenders almost unaccountable for the risk while spreading it, toxically, everywhere else.

"Travelling in eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, you clearly don't want to defend a system that would have empty shops and a totalitarian regime and internal passports".

I don't know why Governor Bush will continue to defend a system that has led to the loss of American national security and a system that has destroyed the confidence of young Americans".

For a couple of hours they will cheerfully defend a system that has led to thousands of ordinary Australians losing their savings, homes and businesses because of dodgy financial advice, illegal and unethical behaviour.

He thought they were the last-ditch tactics of a leader defending a system that Mr. Solzhenitsyn had long known to be doomed.

But some people are arguing that memorializing men who defended a system that perpetuated slavery should not be allowed at public schools where thousands of black children are educated.

As Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England's medical director, argued in opening Expo, the paradox facing planners is that many people are defending a system they know to be deficient because they are frightened of change.

Critics of the Texas capital punishment system have faulted Mr. Bush for defending a system that executes inmates who are mentally retarded, who committed slayings as juveniles and who, in many cases, have been represented by court-appointed lawyers regarded as inadequate.

In the short term, the insistence on ring-fencing Medicare and Social Security has left Democrats defending a system that often just ends up redistributing money from the younger middle class to the older middle class while accepting caps on programs that might do more (both directly and indirectly) to help downscale Americans get ahead.