"defend the position" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to encourage someone to support or argue for their opinion against opposition. For example, "My teacher said I was wrong, but I was determined to defend my position."
Dostoevsky in no way wants to defend the position that Ivan Karamazov outlines in his poem.
"I don't only defend the position of France, but the position of Europe as a whole," President François Hollande said.
However, the controversy then grew as some of his shadow cabinet ministers struggled to defend the position.
The traders, seeking to minimize losses and vowing to "defend the position," sold more than $7 billion of credit default swaps to hedge funds and other traders on Feb. 29.
"If we turn these post-Chilcot debates just into attempts to pursue and hound Tony Blair, the whole thing just turns into a party political argument with Labour members of parliament trying to defend the position of their government," he said.
Although Pietersen apologised at the time, he told the Today programme on Tuesday: "I wouldn't say I did anything wrong but I didn't defend the position of Strauss.
Some governments even approached him to defend the positions of officials who had been demoted.
And, instead of messing around with rebranding, the political left would be best advised to stick with "liberal" — and to hunker down and defend the positions to which the word now refers.
Mr Martin-Artajo, in turn, began pressuring …[others] to mark…positions in such a way as to show smaller losses".Adding to the losses, efforts were also made to "defend the positions", presumably by doubling down.
Is file access from any device sufficient to defend the positions of applications that do not actually run in the browser, or is it only half a loaf?
Brown defends the position of those training Scottish players.
