"France, the country of liberty," the tape said, "defends only the liberty of nudity, debauchery and decay, while fighting chastity and modesty".
Claimants among the "worried well" are lured by advertisements and by lawyers promising them money, says Steven Kazan, a lawyer who defends only the critically ill.In this section Shareholder of last resort Go with the flow Catch 2002 Spreading out of control In trusts we trust Share and share alike?
When the occupation troops stood back and allowed Basra's hospitals, universities and public services to be burned and looted, while they defended only the oil ministry and oilfields, we knew we were dealing with a brutal force prepared to impose its will without regard for human suffering.
Serious theoretical nationalists usually defend only the universalist variety, whereas the nationalist-in-the-street most often defends the egoistic indeterminate one ("Some nations should have a state, above all mine!").
And in all of these respects, Laudan claims, partisans have defended only the weaker forms of underdetermination while founding their further claims about and conceptions of the scientific enterprise on versions much stronger than those they have managed or even attempted to defend.
So the LDP and its coalition partner, New Komeito, will be defending only 246 seats in the election, a bare five more than they need for a majority.
Republicans are defending only 10 seats.
In the 11 most competitive races in the Northeast, Democrats had to defend only two; the nine others involved either Republican incumbents or Republican-held seats that were being vacated.
But really lavish tax cuts -- especially during the costly uncertainties of wartime -- can be defended only with the discredited voodoo of supply-side economics.
The universality of human rights, in other words, can be defended only by the diversity of opinion.
