Sentence examples for defending on behalf from inspiring English sources

An article on Thursday about Paul D. Clement, a lawyer who is leading the challenge to President Obama's health care law, misstated a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, which he is defending on behalf of House Republicans.

It was that ruling that the Pottawatomie district was challenging today and that Mr. Boyd, director of the civil liberties union's drug policy litigation project, was defending on behalf of the Earls family.

She told Clement, who was defending DOMA on behalf of the House of Representatives Bipartisan Legal Advisory Groupp, "that maybe Congress had something different in mind than uniformity" in the definition of marriage.

"In many instances," he said, "the bylaws expressly give the board the power to begin and defend actions on behalf of unit owners".

March 29 , 2016Cooper distances himself from the new law, calling it a "national embarrassment" and saying his office would not defend HB2 on behalf of the state.

The case has reached the Supreme Court through petitions for certiorari by the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group BLAGG), which is defending the law on behalf of House Republicans after the Justice Department decided it would no longer defend Section 3, and through a petition by the Justice Department itself.

Kraft responded with a letter in early November defending its efforts on behalf of Starbucks, pointing to the strong growth in sales during the agreement.

In the interview with The Times, which was recorded, Mr. Weiner was defending his work on behalf of the health legislation when he brought up the term Obamacare.

Defending the programs on behalf of the Obama Administration again fell to Matthew Olsen, who now had a new job, as the N.S.A.'s general counsel.

Paul Clement, who was defending the act on behalf of the House of Representatives, said its only purpose was to ensure uniformity in distributing federal marriage benefits.

On July 12, attorneys defending the law on behalf of the state and the Corbett administration stipulated the following: The Parties are not aware of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania and do not have direct personal knowledge of in-person voter fraud elsewhere.