Sentence examples for defended it on from inspiring English sources

This made some sense, as Gingrich was one of two candidates who signed on to participate in the aborted Donald Trump Debate and the only one who really vigorously defended it on the merits.

Throughout its history, boxing has had fans who defended it on the ground that it's better than the alternative — prison, gang violence, duelling (so went one nineteenth-century argument).

Instead, believing in the fairness of its position, Hilltop took the case to trial and defended it on appeal.

But he defended it on free-speech grounds.

That proposal was widely panned by economists as unrealistic, but Ross defended it on Wednesday.

The former senior White House official, who was involved in the decision, defended it on political grounds.

Q: The BBC does not put up enough people to defend it on its own programmes.

Indeed, by what theory of justice could one defend it on ethical grounds?

Even if one is charitable and defends it on the ground of adherence to an ideological agenda of smaller, less intrusive government (except in the case of lady parts) it can't be defended.

The Wells sentimental romanticism, traditional form, and lofty style – using words like withal, betoken and hath – did not appeal to Modernist aesthetics; not all those willing to defend it on grounds of literary freedom were equally willing to praise its artistry.

Grahek explains the crucial distinction between feeling pain and being in pain, defending it on both conceptual and empirical grounds.