Sentence examples for defending the existing from inspiring English sources
In May a lawyer, Rashid Rehman, was shot dead in the city of Multan for representing a man who was accused of insulting the prophet.The country's clerics are united in defending the existing laws.
And lobbyists would have a harder time defending the existing system as a safety net for disaster-prone American farmers.The prospects for the amendment are not good in the Senate, where rural states are over-represented.
It does not surprise me that former, current and wannabe occupants of other town offices would like to change the system in order to make it easier for them to achieve their own goals (which typically involve spending our money)." Mr. Lash, on the other hand, was not defending the existing form.
And because it answers only to people high in the organization, outside the traditional business, it doesn't find its resources and money being bled off into never-ending efforts at defending the existing business.
Once they began drawing paychecks again, they started defending the existing political order instead of trying to destroy it.
Nevertheless, Hitler insisted on defending the existing lines, and Guderian was dismissed by Christmas, along with generals Hoepner and Strauss, commanders of the 4th Panzer and 9th Army, respectively.
Republican Party leaders defended the existing system, which dates back more than three centuries.
Rather than defend the existing system or attack it, the crucial question to ask now is: where do we want to take it next?
Whereas Alexander I had never quite abandoned dreams of change, Nicholas I was determined to defend the existing order in his motherland, especially autocracy.
But for all these undoubted problems, I'd defend the existing poverty target, which I had a hand in designing in Whitehall about a decade ago.
For Mr. Robin even Burke, that great critic of the French Revolution, wasn't a Burkean moderate, but a reactionary who celebrated the sublimity of violence and denounced the inability of flabby traditional elites to defend the existing order.
