Sentence examples for defend in terms of from inspiring English sources

This may be hard to defend in terms of equity, but it has helped bring racial peace, however fragile, even if the memory of past riots has helped keep the Chinese compliant.Fiji may need some similar remedy.

There's an argument that they really are independent and they've been independently hired and elected by the people, so they have some measure of discretion in what they decide to defend in terms of state action," McCorkle said.

Again the shift is defended in terms of whatever so-called principle the respective sides can latch onto, but it is obvious to everyone that the principle follows the politics, not the other way around.

"We do need to modernise our defences to ensure that we have sufficient troops there and that the islands are properly defended in terms of air defence and maritime defence.

This approach appears paternalistic, and perhaps it is, but it could also be defended in terms of preventing people from making their children destitute, and becoming – in a country like Norway, which provides for its poor – a burden on the state.

The autonomy of the special sciences from physics has been defended in terms of a distinction between type-physicalism and token-physicalism (Fodor 1974; Fodor countered Oppenheim and Putnam's hypothesis under the rubric "the disunity of science"; the entry on physicalism).

Joanna Wolff (2012) considers the relationship between objects and structures, arguing that the former are not reducible to the latter and suggesting that a form of ontic structural realism may be defended in terms of the claim that objects are ontologically dependent on structures.

But slicking off 5.5 million trees — or even just the 3.7 million proposed for harvest in the national forests — cannot be defended in terms of science or policy.

He did not feel able to defend it in terms of the paper's editorial code and that to keep the article online compounded the error of publishing it in the first place.

On November 14, 2011, Walker campaign manager Keith Gilkes sends a 13-page opposition research memo prepared by Kate Doner to Walker saying he wants Walker to be aware of the donor research so he would be aware of what he "might need to defend in in terms of contributions when these are disclosed".

We also have a very good way of defending ourselves in terms of cyber-security, I think we're one of the most advanced countries in the world in terms of the action we're taking on cyber-security, and I've made sure we've put extra money into it".