Sentence examples for defense of ideals from inspiring English sources

In his works of the Revolutionary period, including poems that he smuggled out of prison in a laundry basket, he makes a passionate defense of ideals of liberty and justice: the Iambes, the last of which dates from very shortly before his execution, are a moving testimonial to the human spirit in the face of persecution.

I mourn for a people and a nation that seem to have forgotten its past, those who died in its defense of ideals and survival, the stain on its conscious and the work its founders, ancestors and activists have laid forward and continue to work through.

His latest book is "Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals".

Indeed, the movement derives its name from his zealous defense of its ideals and his staunch advocacy of papal primacy.

His failure to starve to death in defense of his ideals had discredited him as a leader of the SAD, and Sant Fateh Singh was elected in his place.

Mrs. Merkel said this was a matter "of the defense of our ideals," according to a dispatch from the German-language service of The Associated Press.

Then, just before her re-election, she proclaimed that anchoring the worldwide precepts of the German economic and social model — "the defense of our ideals" — would be the main task of her new coalition government.

His articulation and defense of conservative ideals against the dominant liberalism of the 1960s influenced generations of intellectuals and policymakers and contributed to the resurgence of the Republican Party in the late 1960s and its electoral successes in the 1980s.

The short film, "A New Birth of Freedom," shown in the adjacent theaters every 15 minutes, lays out the origins of the war, the debate over slavery's expansion to the new territories and the battle's legacy, immortalized by Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, as a defense of democratic ideals.

In her last day on the stump, Mrs. Merkel, without ever talking of the G-20 admonitions and their challenge to German routine, suggested "the defense of our ideals" could be best managed "in alliance with the countries of the European Union".

Another measure of the distance between them is the difference between Rorty's avowedly ethnocentric defense of liberal ideals, and Gadamer's notion of the appropriation of tradition as a way of being responsive to reason.