In contrast, iconoclasts are entirely locked into their positions, since their careers and followings are entirely dependent on defense of a fixed position, and ideology.
(He would later write, in praise of Irving Kristol, that "one learns more from a well-written defense of a weak position... than from a muddled exposition of a line one agrees with").
Marshaling impressive empirical evidence in defense of a controversial position, this final work by a leading scholar of international affairs is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and lay readers alike.
The hidden and strongest reason for opposition is the corporate defense of a predominant position that now, for example, allows anesthesiologists to control 80% of local EMSs in Italy, and the fear of losing the power conferred by the monopoly on some manual skills.
For a recent defense of a unitarian position on the relation between the Republic and the Laws, see Rowe (2010); for a defense of the idea that the non-philosophic citizens of the Republic (including those in the producer class) are happier than the non-philosophic citizens of the Laws, see Kraut (2010).
If not, the false neutrality can lead to an unconsidered, or manipulative, defense of an extreme position.
"The city's obstinacy, its unflagging defense of an overrun position reflects a misguided set of priorities and loyalties.
The CIA's defense of an indefensible position on secrecy suggests that it believes secrecy trumps all other values, even a court's common sense.
Instead of complying with this order, the head of the family, Samuel Galton II, published a defense of his position as a Quaker gun-manufacturer.
The scholarly controversy concerns what theory and implicit premises to ascribe to the writer so that the arguments come out as cogent defenses of a reasonable position.
