We no longer have to defend authorities who have been shown to be corrupt.
As minister of agriculture in the government of Berlusconi, the former conservative prime minister, he defended authorities in Lucca and Milan when they began cracking down on restaurants that served non-Italian food, saying ethnic restaurants that served kebabs, sushi and Chinese food should "stop importing container loads of meat and fish from who knows where" and use only Italian ingredients.
Republicans, especially Republican senators, are being justifiably excoriated for failing to defend congressional authority.
To defend his authority ʿUmar had 300 hostages executed, but revolt broke out again as soon as his armies were removed.
"The administration has gone to great lengths to defend its authority to make these decisions, but has done little to exercise it," Human Rights First president Elisa Massimino said.
In recent weeks, commandos from private security companies fought to defend coalition authority employees and buildings from major assaults in Kut and Najaf, two cities south of Baghdad.
The administration decided to get tough on Sadr in part because it wanted to defend the authority of the senior Shiite leaders.
The party's first step in ultimately removing them, he said, would be to defend the authority of the Parliament to choose, on its own, the members of a planned 100-person constitutional assembly.
The only way America can effectively protect its investors and defend the authority of its courts is to reconcile the F.S.I.A. with the reality that governments always retain their immunity, no matter what the law says.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture announced the decision on Monday at a hearing in which the state was to defend its authority to quarantine the animals — two leopards, two primates and a bear — on suspicion of infectious diseases.
As permanent members of the security council, the UK and the US must continue to live up to the responsibility we have to defend the authority and legitimacy of the UN.
