Sentence examples for defend the cause from inspiring English sources

The attack, he said in another pronouncement, was "to support and defend the cause of the oppressed".

You, too, can provide assistance and defend the cause of all those who fight for one of the pillars of democracy, freedom of information.

But if we withdrew, I do think that Britain would find it much to defend the cause of human rights in Belarus, say.

"I don't know who appointed you to defend the cause of the Negro," Judge Murray said to the 35 students, all but 3 of whom were white, according to The Associated Press.

Now, probably part of that overestimating Loyalist support was born from reports of overly optimistic royal officials and governors, who reported back to London that — yes, there's plenty of Loyalists here, and they're on hand to defend the cause, and when things get underway the Loyalists will rise up and be on our side.

The Bible says, "Defend the cause of the weak" (Psalm 82 3).

Elsewhere, writers used their books to defend the causes that had become their raison d'être.

But it should reject the generals' contention that their clumsy interventions in Turkey's political life defend the causes of secularism and democracy.

Of calling to defend the causes of the Islamic nation?" A contrasting version of Mr. Awlaki's story, explored though never confirmed by the national Sept. 11 commission, maintains that he was a secret agent of Al Qaeda starting well before the attacks, when three of the hijackers turned up at his mosques.

Ronsard eloquently defended the cause of Catholic reform against the Protestant Reformers and their aristocratic allies in his Discours (1562 63).

One of his attractions has always been his willingness to argue it out with his opponents: when other neocons went missing in action, he defended the cause.