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Since the then lord chancellor Chris Grayling introduced the policy of blanket fees for employment tribunals in 2013, the government has spent four years and two highly expensive litigations defending this stance.

National Security Directive 26, signed by the first President George Bush on October 2 1989, said: "The United States government should propose economic and political incentives for Iraq to moderate its behaviour and to increase our influence with Iraq". After the first Gulf war, the former ambassador in Baghdad, David Newton, defended this stance.

Labor unions have long defended this senseless protectionism, a stance that has gone from being self-interested to self-defeating at a time when the nation's battered airline industry could use an infusion of overseas investment capital.

Vidar Helgesen, the country's minister of climate and environment defended the stance.

In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Mr Miliband defended the stance.

There appears to be this compulsion to promote and defend their stance.

Hard to defend that stance, IMO.

To defend its stance, the bank notes that in 2007 it was short the mortgage market $3.8 billion and long $3.3 billion.

"We can't defend our stance when 12-year-old kids are being shot by Israelis, our partners in peace".

Germany's Green party is under renewed pressure to defend its stance on paedophilia in the 1980s.

Ms. Long asked Mr. Turner to defend his stance that raising taxes should be on the table in negotiations over reducing the country's budget deficit and debt.