However, the big achievement of Janice Finch's series is to defend the proposition that even the apparently dodgiest defendant must be allowed a decent defence in the interest of keeping the prosecution system honest.
Romer wanted him to press the Keynesian case for his policies — to defend the proposition of increased government spending to fight the recession.
ROBERT WRIGHT I want to defend the proposition that, in its own way, the Tiger Woods scandal is as important as Kandahar and the Catholic Church.
The order, asking for clarification of California law, comes after former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his successor, Gov. Jerry Brown, refused to defend the proposition in court.
Romer wanted him to press the Keynesian case for his policies to defend the proposition of increased government spending to fight the recession.
It's difficult to defend the proposition that someone who could be the world's richest man comes from what should be a highly regulated sector of a very poor country".
It takes a profound moral case to defend the proposition that the youngest and the oldest, the weakest and the strongest, all of us, simply by virtue of our common humanity, are in some basic and inalienable way equals.
The proposition has already been struck down by federal judges at the trial and appellate levels, the governor and attorney general of California have refused to defend the proposition and the parties seeking the Supreme Court's review lack the legal capacity, or standing, to pursue the case.
