Sentence examples for defended war from inspiring English sources

PLEASANTVILLE Jacob Burns Film Center "Terror's Advocate," directed by Barbet Schroeder is a portrait of Jacques Vergez, a lawyer who defended war criminals.

Galeano writes: "Four and a half centuries before, when the Nobel prize did not exist and evil resided in countries not with oil but with gold and silver, Spanish jurist Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda also defended war as 'not only necessary but morally justified'".

While Brian Williams was an anchorman, O'Reilly used his platform to advocate a course of action that almost always defended war, torture, and being tough on the "bad guys".

He got into noisy arguments, defending the South, defending war as a means of ridding the planet of the weak, defending nationalism.

Certainly, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has become part of a burgeoning industry of war crimes trials – and a boon to those who would defend war criminals.

Jacques Vergès, the French lawyer who embraced anticolonial causes and the role of devil's advocate on a world stage to defend war criminals, terrorists, dictators and other notorious villains of the 20th century, died on Thursday in Paris.

But he devoted most of his remarks to defending war in general and the Afghanistan conflict in particular.

A judge at the ICC earns a minimum of €180,000 a year tax-free, and the sort of barristers who defend war-crimes suspects can make many times that amount.

After World War I, Darrow defended several war protesters charged with violating state sedition laws.

The charms of liberal democracy sometimes need to be defended by war, and Mr. Obama's critics are right that war can't be conducted with a high level of concern for individual justice.

In interviews, Dr. Kay defended the war with Iraq, saying that the U.S. "has often entered the right war for the wrong reason," and he defended Mr. Bush, saying, "if anyone was abused by the intelligence, it was the president".