Sentence examples for defend the point from inspiring English sources

The Democrats might start to step forward a bit more aggressively to defend the point of view of our clients, and Republicans will have to recalibrate their approach.

And can anyone for instance defend the point of view that, given the events, the negotiations with Turkey have become less, rather than more, important?" He added: "I believe that today Poland is a very good example of a country that was worth investing in, a country which for historical reasons had for many years been outside the European Union".

The latter two could not have been merely historical, however; the historical perspective must rather have served to defend the point of view of the skeptical Academy, which Plutarch advocated as doing justice to the aporetic spirit of Plato's philosophy (see below, sect. 2).

Usually if the government refuses to defend the point of law Bond was challenging, the case goes away.

They made off with 10 head of cattle, but lost two lives in the skirmish with colonial troops sent to defend the point.

But because I consider myself a fair (if occasionally unbalanced) reporter, I have to at least try to defend the point she was (so badly) trying to make.

Under a two-year system, he would not have had to defend the points he won in 2010 until this year, and would still have been the top seed entering competitions in early 2012.Besides Mr Nadal's status, other rankings would be less changeable under a two-year system.

The next Masters tournament is at Indian Wells in March, an event which Murray will defend the points he gained by reaching the quarter-final last year.

As a result, he will be unable to defend the points he accumulated in the early part of 2013 and is likely to drop down the rankings.

However, he has only reached the quarter-finals in his last two Grand Slams and, during his surgery lay-off, failed to defend the points he earned by reaching the final of the 2012 Shanghai Masters and the last four of the Tour Finals in the same year.

Greg Powell, the city's senior planner assigned to the project, defended the point system.