Bishop Basil of Caesarea, in his treatise On the Holy Spirit, defended the same view and then deployed theological arguments to show that the three persons of the Trinity properly received equal praise and adoration in the church's liturgy.
Joe Louis, "the Brown Bomber", enjoyed the fervent support of Americans of all colours when he defended the same title against Germany's Max Schmeling in a fight billed as a contest between democracy and Nazism.Their successor, Mr Ali, a radical turned patriot, became a thoroughly establishment figure.
Remarkably, Johnson was on the Andrew Marr show only days later, defending the same unpleasant regime.
A quarter of a century on, the argument is still raging, with many of its protagonists defending the same positions.
Mr. Meek stands to benefit from the Republican infighting, and both he and Mr. Crist now find themselves defending the same issue: government efforts to jump-start the economy.
By joining a firm that takes on big banks, Mr. Barofsky appears to be taking a different tack from other regulators or top law enforcement officials who join firms that defend the same institutions they previously oversaw or policed.
Yet they often read different scripts, even when defending the same core policy — a dedication to so-called broken windows policing — that Mr. Bratton's critics contend is at the heart of the divide between the police and minority communities.
Inside their own 22 Scotland defend the same as everyone else: they line up with the full-back, Stuart Hogg, under his posts and the other 14 men in a line in front of him.
In a perverse but characteristic contortion, he is claiming to defend the same 18,000 people whom he has besieged for the past two years.As the jihadist problem has spread, some Arab states appear to be warming to Mr Assad as the lesser evil.
Now that it appears that they are likely to rejoin the government, people have wondered, here and elsewhere, whether we should worry about picking law enforcement officials from the ranks of those whose résumés include stints prosecuting and defending the same sorts of people.
"Instead of taking the side of working families in Massachusetts, Martha's opponent is already walking in lockstep with Washington Republicans, opposing that fee, defending the same fat cats who are getting rewarded for their failure," Mr. Obama told the appreciative crowd.
