Sentence examples for defended the notion from inspiring English sources

Lutheran philosophers and theologians, such as Christian Wolff (1679 1754) and Johann Salomo Semler (1725 91), defended the notion of the harmony of reason and revelation.

But Mr. Urwand strongly defended the notion of "collaboration," noting that the word (and its German equivalent, Zusammenarbeit) occurs repeatedly in documents on both sides.

Nancy Hwa, a spokeswoman for Handgun Control in Washington, defended the notion of a "chain of responsibility that the gun industry and gun owners bear for their product".

He has defended the notion of a free press in recent speeches but has not commented publicly on the closure of nearly every national newspaper that supports him.

His political dissidence, however, had its limits: he defended the notion of private property, unlike the more communistic wing of the parliamentary forces.

For the next fifteen years, he believed in and defended the notion of brain death, but in the early nineties he began to feel increasingly troubled by the concept.

Dr. Faltz said the trend might make it "difficult to defend the notion of American music in the future".

"Has our N.C.A.A. board decided not to defend the notion that playing N.C.A.A. sports is not forced?" Plonsky wrote.

At one point, Mr. Costello drew applause for defending the notion of questioning authority as an act of patriotism.

But a report released last month by the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness, a research and policy group, presents a convincing set of facts to defend the notion of causality.

But it is harder to defend the notion of enlightened leisure when taxes are being raised, salaries cut and civil servants sacked.