Sentence examples for defending the notion from inspiring English sources

At one point, Mr. Costello drew applause for defending the notion of questioning authority as an act of patriotism.

The day the charity game was announced, Falk and some players began defending the notion of proceeds going to cash-strapped players, a move that backfired.

But a few are following in the steps of the Western gay liberation movement, defending the notion that Islam and homosexuality can be reconciled.

When I finally wrote something he did like, defending the notion of an "objective past" against his attacks, he said, "This is exactly the kind of response I was trying to provoke!'" He was never pushing a paradoxical view for its own sake.

Mr. Macron's hourlong speech before the annual gathering of the world's wealthy and powerful in the Swiss Alps came on the same day that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni issued their own forceful speeches toward advancing European integration, while defending the notion of international cooperation.

"He's a man, he owns a firm that sells this stuff, and I have no qualms at all defending the notion that a tincture of dandelion and artichoke [Duchy Herbals detox remedy] doesn't do anything to detoxify your body and therefore it is a snake oil".

Dr. Faltz said the trend might make it "difficult to defend the notion of American music in the future".

"Has our N.C.A.A. board decided not to defend the notion that playing N.C.A.A. sports is not forced?" Plonsky wrote.

Cameron defended the notion of the special relationship and called it "essential", but nonetheless injected a sense of hierarchy.

President Polk himself made this case before Congress in 1847, when he defended the notion of annexing more than a million acres of Mexican territory.

Lutheran philosophers and theologians, such as Christian Wolff (1679 1754) and Johann Salomo Semler (1725 91), defended the notion of the harmony of reason and revelation.