"But while the exchange of ideas can be rough, it is within your power to defend yourself, and answering criticism helps you to define yourself and your positions".
When you find yourself spending seven hours a day on the phone defending yourself and answering the same question over and over, it is natural to get overwhelmed.
Students were repeatedly challenged to defend and refine their answers, as the emphasis shifted from simply understanding the papers to formulating quantitative questions about domain formation.
The interviews, incidentally, were far more searching than the exams: I had to defend my opinions and answer, on the spot, probing questions on a wide range of subjects, not confined to history.
With the White House and Republican senators not bothering to defend him, Pitt answered those calls yesterday.
The Abbott government has invoked its "on-water matters" secrecy rule to defend not comprehensively answering claims that Australian officials paid money to the crew of an intercepted asylum-seeker boat to return to Indonesia.
"Can you defend it?" Kaine answered back.
"The students have to explain and defend their answers because they could have found the right answer but for the wrong reasons".
(In the skeptical tradition, as articulated for example by Sextus Empiricus (see section 4.4 ., "dogmatists" are philosophers who put forward, and defend, positive answers to philosophical questions about reality, knowledge, ethical values, etc.
They had; Santorum's disorganized earmark answer — he attacked, defended, and, perhaps most fatally, tried to explain the legislative mechanism involved — was one of several with which he lost this debate, squandering his recent momentum.
