Sentence examples for defended this position from inspiring English sources

In that "aw, shucks" way of his, Hutchinson defended this position.

Harnack defended this position in his most popular book, Das Wesen des Christentums (1900; What Is Christianity?), which was the transcript of a course of lectures he had delivered at the University of Berlin.

The NGOs and the UN specialised agencies - and particularly the Oxfam/Save the Children alliance - defended this position even when the US tried to pressure other donors not to support the resettlement programme.

And he defended this position with some gusto.

Icann defended this position and noted that it even provided some financial assistance to organizations that wanted to register for TLDs but could not meet the applications fees, and that in fact the geographical spread was wider than it expected.

Bonaventure had presented a series of arguments to prove that the world began to be, and many others strongly defended this position, including Henry of Ghent (Dales, 1990; Wippel, 1981, 153 58).

pointed out that the corporation has had difficulty defending this position in court recently.

"The Traverse previously had to defend this position as a developer of new writers," Mr. Hill said.

Lakely, the Heartland spokesman, responded that he had shared the article with colleagues, "asking them to jump to your aide [sic] and defend this position".

Cameron is one of the few leaders set to keep his promise to increase spending on international aid to 0.7% of national income – and he has not shied away from defending this position, despite criticism in parts of the media.

Scholars defending this position argue that much of the evidence for the missionary activity of Celtic saints was derived from the saints' lives and church dedications of a later date.