Socrates claims to be defending, in effect, the honor of philosophy against those who lack aptitude for it and thereby give it a bad name.
For example, the transcription factors OxyR and the SoxRS have been identified as two key regulators defending ROS effects.
With these three main biochemical factors impacting upon CFTR biology in native epithelia, we present a single unifying hypothesis to defend this effect in native epithelia.
James Murdoch came to the Leveson inquiry to defend his reputation, and ended up spending much of the remaining six and half hours on the stand in effect defending the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt.
Since 2003, and the signing of the Le Touquet Treaty, France has, in effect, been defending Britain's borders.
Will all of these attempts to get oysters back in New York City have any effect in defending us against Sandy?
But Mr. Romney clearly feels he can't do that, because the political effect of defending layoffs would be toxic.
The right question is, what have I commissioned?" For all the singularity of the way French publishing operates, it does have the effect of defending French culture.
In effect, if defending his teammates and being everyone's captain — starters and scrubs, black and white — meant Reed was an Uncle Tom in Russell's eyes, so be it.
In God of Carnage, the character who provides much of the comic fodder is Alain, the cynical lawyer who spends much of his time on the phone defending the disastrous side-effects of a drug marketed by a dodgy pharmaceutical company.
