A key duty of the N.I.H. director is to justify the agency's budget and defend before Congress the programs it funds, a duty that requires a skill quite apart from prowess in the laboratory.
"We were in a combination coverage and with only 10 yards to defend before the end zone, we were looking for them to try and throw it before the goal line and to try and lunge in," Jones said.
That's where somebody who can help you with your head can really be helpful to keep compartmentalising and not let the whole thing of Wimbledon [affect her]." With very few points to defend before June, it seems highly likely that Konta will be inside the top 32 come Wimbledon.
Screenwriting candidates are given a one-sentence theme to elaborate into a story, which they then have to explain and defend before a three-person panel of professional screenwriters; directing candidates are given a scene, a crew, a set, equipment, and actors, and are instructed to film it.
He initially moved to defend, before realising that doing so would breach the rule that forbids changing line in the braking zone.
The Cherries had more trickery from Roberts to defend before the interval, but although Jordan Rhodes failed to direct his header on target when well placed, there was still time for Clark's men to retake the lead when Ward turned well to fire a fierce left-footed shot past Jalal in the dying seconds of the half.
But Prince reached his fifty off 37 balls with one of three sixes and Paul Horton (19) and Steven Croft (22 not out) helped him give their bowlers a decent total to defend before the return of the rain cut their innings short.
Battles use turn-based gameplay and each character takes a turn to attack or defend before yielding to the next character.
And this is what we have come to defend before this tyrant who wields the economic and political power in this country and in the world.
As for his own past defense of disclosures, McConnell said one would have to go back to the 1980s to find a time when he defended disclosures for 501(c)4 nonprofit groups, something he says he was wrong to defend before.
