Alison defends the causes they fought for as noble goals that the country betrayed in the decades that followed.
The attack, he said in another pronouncement, was "to support and defend the cause of the oppressed".
Ronsard eloquently defended the cause of Catholic reform against the Protestant Reformers and their aristocratic allies in his Discours (1562 63).
You, too, can provide assistance and defend the cause of all those who fight for one of the pillars of democracy, freedom of information.
One of his attractions has always been his willingness to argue it out with his opponents: when other neocons went missing in action, he defended the cause.
But if we withdrew, I do think that Britain would find it much to defend the cause of human rights in Belarus, say.
A large stone slab on the ground is inscribed with the Confederate flag and a tribute to the "deeds and valor of the men who so gallantly, nobly, and conscientiously defended the cause".
Each year a new crop of books is published, many sustaining the heroic anti-fascist myth of militiamen and the International Brigades defending the cause of democracy and the Spanish republic against Francisco Franco's brutal army, backed by Hitler and Mussolini.
"I don't know who appointed you to defend the cause of the Negro," Judge Murray said to the 35 students, all but 3 of whom were white, according to The Associated Press.
