Mr. Rowland went on the offensive, defending the terms of the deal and accusing Mr. Marcus of waging a partisan smear campaign.
Lonn Trost, the Yankees' chief operating officer, defended the terms of the proposed deal in a letter to Munoz, saying, "The partnership is confident that, by exploiting its television exploitation rights itself, it can realize" the $2.4 billion.
They said they also planned to meet with representatives of the Greek government before a critical meeting of the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies on Thursday, and they defended the terms of the bailout package as "more necessary than ever today".
Meanwhile, the law school's faculty voted strongly in favor of the name change, school officials defended the terms of the gift agreements, law professors wrote op-eds, and many testified in favor at the state council's meetings Monday and Tuesday.
But curators at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, who mounted the exhibit, defend the term as a historically accurate description of the experience of Japanese-Americans, solely on the basis of their ancestry.
It's perverse that universal free school meals even need defending on the terms of their economic viability and academic benefit, but our miserable political discourse demands we must.
Author Valerie Gibson, who has written a book called Cougar: A Guide for Older Women Dating Younger Men, has defended the term as an example of liberation: "A cougar is the new breed of single, older woman – confident, sophisticated, desirable, and sexy.
Curators of the exhibition had said they had not intended to equate the two and defended the term as an accurate description of their history.
Even in limiting the recognition of intrinsic value and disvalue to happiness and unhappiness, some philosophers have argued that those feelings cannot adequately be further broken down into terms of pleasure and pain and have thus preferred to defend the theory in terms of maximizing happiness and minimizing unhappiness.
As he claims time and again, the Stoics can defend the use of these terms at best in a verbal sense.
