He responded, typically: "A rich brother should not visit a poor brother empty-handed".That sunshine policy, too, he defended to the end, even though the northern Kim gave him the runaround, adding nuclear weapons to his "not very likeable" aspects, and even though George Bush mocked his efforts, publicly, at the White House.
Over the years, I've grown used to these arguments, and my response has rarely wavered: Sure, we might make dumb choices sometimes, but we will defend, to the end, the right to make choices at all, because we believe that our collective conscience, freely expressed, will eventually lead us in the right direction.
Unfortunately, those looking to smear us have made false accusations of us not making the data available, which was just a lie… There are legitimate issues over whether a computer program you have written to implement an algorithm; if you're talking about a Microsoft or Apple computer, they would defend to the end their right to keep that.
"Republicans are defending to the end their tax cuts for millionaires.
Lieutenant Becker was defended to the very end, and even after, by his indefatigable third wife, Helen, a schoolteacher and later an assistant elementary school principal, who died in 1962.
Explaining his country's objection, Italy's justice minister, Roberto Castelli, said, "Ministers defended to the very end a list containing crimes which have nothing to do with terrorism, such as car stealing".
What single, limiting color is marketed to boys and men that they cling to for dear life, that they use to advertise and feel secure about their own gender, that marketers peddle to them in every aspect of their lives, and that internet commenters defend to the bitter end?
Though Mr. Cutler was more recently on the team defending Mr. Gotti's son, John A. Gotti -- who pleaded guilty in 1999 to racketeering and extortion -- the 52-year-old lawyer has been less conspicuous in the New York press in the last few years than when he was defending the fight-to-the-end elder Gotti.
In 1912, Cup trustees declared that it was only to be defended at the end of the champion team's regular season.
"We had a couple of hairy moments to defend at the end when they were throwing everything at us.
Mr. Berlusconi commanded tremendous loyalty, and millions of supporters defended him to the end, blaming overzealous magistrates for the scandals.
