Sentence examples for defending the initial from inspiring English sources

If this is right, then the Skolemite's larger argument could well amount to criticizing ordinary set-theoretic notions for being "relative" in a rhetorical context in which the Skolemite has already presented far stronger criticisms of these notions in the course of defending the initial step in his argument.

At 02 30 on 1 May, two C-47 transport aircraft took off from Akyab, transporting several pathfinder teams and a platoon tasked with defending the initial drop zone at Tawhai.

But Dr. Haupt defended the initial impulse, saying that historically such school requirements had been a successful way to increase access to and financing for vaccines.

She defended the initial commissioning of the facility, and said that in hindsight "there might be things you tweak" but building the prison was "the right thing to do".

In an interview, Carl Hum, the executive director of the commission, defended the initial map as an earnest attempt to balance many different demographic forces, using the example of a jigsaw puzzle.

And then to defend the initial error, the magazine cited current trends".

But she defended the initial decision not to disclose her illness until after she appeared to collapse as she left a 9/11 memorial service in New York.

The third wave had received the same amount of ammunition, but was also issued entrenching equipment that would be used to construct positions to defend the initial gains against the inevitable Ottoman counterattack.

The officials were defending the administration's initial plan, now under review, to give five people accused of being Sept. 11 conspirators civilian criminal trials.

Defending the propriety of his initial investment, Mr. Melancon said his governing council had approved it overwhelmingly after it was reviewed by a special committee.

In Vienna, Die Presse wrote that after taking an initial position defending the mosque, "he doesn't have the backbone to stand up for it".