Libya At the Trust Women's Conference, I heard one of the women on the panel, a young woman from Libya, defending interpretations of Sharia Law so that it would be included as part of the Constitution.
She told us how the practice of finding details to defend their interpretations of each photo improved their academic skills in general, and their science skills in particular: After practicing with "What's Going On in This Picture?' weekly, I started to see my students get much better at using evidence in their writing.
As a result, prosecutors are likely to temper their sentencing recommendation, and will have to defend their interpretation if they want the court to impose a stiff sentence.
Still, the discoverers are already being pressed to defend their interpretation that the cut marks on the bones are evidence of stone-tool butchery.
Plutarch sets out to defend the interpretation of Plato's epistemology maintained in the skeptical Academy.
But it is becoming increasingly difficult to find any who, when pressed, will defend this interpretation.
Others have tried to rehabilitate this interpretation and respond to the potential objections. Lee C. Rice (1990) and Christopher Martin (2007) both offer responses to the objections and attempt to defend this interpretation of Spinoza's theory of consciousness.
Given that after Bacon's work, Newton's Regulae formed the most important statement on method in natural philosophy to be found in the Early Modern period, Reid was quick to defend his interpretation of these rules against alternate uses by Priestley and others.
(See (Wolfsdorf 2008, 164 169); a similar explanation of that passage was provided at the time in (Heath 1921, 298 303) and (Farquharson 1923); the more recent and authoritative (Knorr 1986, 71 74) and (Menn 2002, 209 214) defend this interpretation without mention of Cook Wilson).
But legislative prerogative for its own sake, under what is called the "guarantee clause" in Article IV of the United States Constitution — that states are guaranteed "a republican form of government" — has been harder to defend partly because interpretations of that phrase differed even during the early years of the republic and were never really settled in the centuries since.
