Sentence examples for defended order from inspiring English sources

Halleck, now general in chief, defended Order No. 11 as "within the recognized laws of war" and cited historical precedents from the Napoleonic wars.

They called upon Catholics to defend order and religion against the bourgeois Republic.

Now it is devising ways to squeeze the banks in order to defend society.

The existing social and political order was to be defended in order to prevent a Hobbesian chaos of all against all.

The secretary defended his order to accelerate production of heavily armored mine-resistant troop transports for use in Iraq and Afghanistan.

General Clark defended the order in an interview as necessary to maintain public support for the war.

Bernard also wrote In Praise of the New Knighthood (c. 1136), which defended the order against its critics and contributed to its growth.

But the White House defended the order as a way to ensure that there will be adequate time for a careful and transparent review of any new regulations.

The White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales, defended the order on this Op-Ed page by denying or interpreting away its most offensive provisions.

For example, Mr. Ashcroft, in an interview on Friday, defended his order to monitor some conversations between selected inmates and their lawyers on those grounds.

Mr. Mills yesterday defended the order yesterday, calling it "a reasonable action in response to the city's inaction in staffing the lowest-performing schools with qualified teachers".