President Kennedy, in the hope of defending virtue against vice, encouraged Floyd Patterson, who had the endorsement of the N.A.A.C.P., to defend his heavyweight title against Sonny Liston, an ex-con, who did not.
7. Little presents this reply in the context of defending virtue theorists.
Not long after Watergate, she worried about "over-involvement" and a newspaper's need to guard against "the romantic tendency to picture itself in the role of a heroic and beleaguered champion, defending virtues against overwhelming odds".
The archetype of the brave cowboy who acts alone to fight evil, defend virtue and establish order in a chaotic world is deeply impressed on the American psyche.
For that reason, she kills him while defending her virtue on Page 11.
But all the Congressmen on that Congressional Oversight Committee agreed that they were defending the virtue of the game and the need for all players to come to the field with unenhanced throwing arms and honest old running legs.
But she is serious about defending the virtues of WASP values, and their contribution to American culture.
Defending the virtues of mutuals, Jon Cruddas MP, head of Labour's policy review, writes on the Observer website: "At stake is the Co-operative party, which has a deep historical link with the Labour party".
Once the free radical commits the unthinkable, the audience gets so involved in taking sides and defending the virtues at stake -- any sense of structural inequality of interest to my old feminist teachers would go completely out the door.
Aside from the robustly unwholesome folks who run the brothel where Pericles' daughter, Marina Katie Hartkee), is forced to defend her virtue, none of these characters were really made for close-ups.
In Scene 1 as the two young officers Ferrando and Guglielmo, defend the virtue of their sweethearts, the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, against the slurs of the cynical old bachelor, Don Alfonso, you glimpse the young women through slatted blinds on the back wall as they stroll on the beach in straw hats and pretty summer dresses.
