Sentence examples for defend state from inspiring English sources

Even if liberals think the libertarian critique of the state is wrong, why would that lead them to defend state actions that liberalism should condemn?

Ellen Rosenblum joins fellow Democratic attorneys general in at least five other states who have pledged not to defend state bans on gay marriage.

The government says this is aimed only at making it easier to defend state institutions, and to prosecute terrorists who attack them.

And support for the cuts in the Legislature is far from certain, particularly among Republicans who lead the Senate and staunchly defend state aid to education.

And increasingly, it appears that its old tactics — seeding demonstrations with agent provocateurs, riling mobs to defend state institutions, deliberately spreading disruption, confusion, and sectarianism — are still in use, too.

Gov. James E. Doyle, a Democrat, said: "The attorney general's job is to represent the state and defend state law when there is a good-faith defense to be made.

The Democrat tours such places while barely making an effort to defend states that are currently in his column.

But each time a bill was introduced in the Senate, southern conservatives used their filibuster powers to defend states' rights.

Remember, our attorney general is insulting every single Michigan voter who depended upon him to, at the very least, follow his party line and defend states' rights.

The ruling is likely to defend states rights from federal treaty-making encroachment, while limiting the reach of international law in the United States.

Next, the Attorney General has suggested publicly that he must defend states' power to define marriage, as if that power has no federal constitutional limitations.