He defended a project that many considered indefensible with good humour, a stance that evoked admiration and criticism in equal measure.
But despite this prestige, monks are now at considerable pains to preserve the dignity of the temple and defend a project that has been roundly denounced as both greedy and gaudy.
Even the pro-Israel lobby struggles to defend a project that is making Palestinians strangers on their ancestral soil, settlements timed to blow up any American-sponsored peace talks, settlements that are gobbling up the land that for 25 years has been intended as a future Palestinian state subject to security guarantees for Israel and mutually agreed trade-offs about boundaries.
Mr. Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president and an avowed environmentalist, suddenly found himself at odds with an important part of his political base, defending a Brazilian project that could increase deforestation.
Martha C. Nussbaum has made a project of defending a feminist universalism against relativist claims.
To Bourne, America wasn't some citadel in need of defending: it was a project, one that continually enfolded new participants, dynamically renewed its character.
Genuine social democrat revisionists - believing we represented purity of purpose - marched into a corner labelled "Labour Luddites" and allowed the high priests of "the project" to defend a ragbag of policies by simply saying their critics wanted to disinter the programme on which Labour was defeated in 1970 and 1979.
14 DEF Distribute, defend, or introduce a project …presents his/her IP project and persuades others to accept it.
Very long delays, however, start to look sloppy and become rather harder to defend — especially if a project isn't keeping backers in the loop.
As the animals were flown in on several flights, Mr. van Houven found himself defending the project.
You have no problem with me.' " Mr. Breslin estimates he has spent over $4 million meeting environmental study requirements and defending the project in lawsuits.
