In a video message posted on YouTube, the musician Wyclef Jean, below, defended himself against reports that he benefited personally from his Haitian relief charity, saying, "Not only I denounce all of that, I'm disgusted by that".
[B6.] FINANCIAL STIMULUS Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, below, defended her government's approval of a stimulus package of $29 billion, with tailored measures that were aimed at shoring up the country's economy amid a global slowdown.
To defend a below-par total of 133-5 and win by such a resounding margin was a superb effort.
Lippi had earlier in the tournament defended Del Piero's below-par performances in the group stage, but had still conceded to pressure for Francesco Totti to play as the deep-lying forward behind Luca Toni after the Roma player's last-minute penalty had beaten Australia and put Italy into the quarter-finals.
But Australia could not force a winner in a tame second half in which a below-strength South Africa defended well.
Back in 2012, Mitt Romney promised that, if elected, he would not play golf while in office, unlike that slacker Barack Obama, but George W. Bush (No. 6 among golf-playing Presidents, one spot below his father) defended Obama.
Switching from metaphysical to a priori entailment is defended in Michael (2008); see §2.3 below.
Recently, the European food safety agency (EFSA) established a benchmark dose: an increase of 12 μg/L could decrease the IQ score by one unit, without threshold below which neurodevelopmental toxicity could be defended [ 12].
Below, we defend our measure of CFL then discuss our results in terms of adaptive developmental plasticity, and consider the extent to which our findings support the idea that subtly developmentally disadvantaged birds show a 'memory of hunger' (Bloxham et al., 2014).
Versions of this view have been defended by Bach 1997 (in the Other Internet Resources section below) and Burge 1991.
