Sentence examples for early defense of from inspiring English sources

Putnam's early defense of realism was primarily directed against the logical positivists, who held a verificationist theory of meaning.

Bernard Lazare, a French-Jewish intellectual known for his early defense of the wrongly accused Captain Alfred Dreyfus in late nineteenth century France, wrote extensively on the subject of antisemitism and became involved in the Zionist movement alongside Max Nordau and Theodor Herzl.

The city's position calls to mind its early defense of policies like a smoking ban and a bike-share program: If passengers can experience the vehicle's sumptuous amenities for themselves, said David S. Yassky, the city's taxi commissioner, "that's the end of any debate".

Mr. Nelson, a former insurance executive who also served two terms as Nebraska's governor, spent the better part of the fall pondering whether to tough out a hard re-election battle, and made his decision after Democrats had already spent significant amounts of money both in early defense of his seat and to persuade him to run again.

An early defense of this libertarianism can be found in "Freedom and Action" (1966).

For an early defense of closure denial and the relevant alternatives approach, see Dretske 1970.

More subtly unjustified feelings about the analyst are reversions to early defenses of the ego against threatening primitive id impulses.

For early defenses of adverbialism, see Ducasse (1952) and Sellars (1975).

Mr. Kilpatrick ultimately acknowledged that segregation was a lost cause and re-examined his earlier defense of it.

In his earlier defense of Strauss-Kahn, Levy relied on notions of privilege that remain unattractive, and also cheaply disparaged a French journalist who has said for years that Strauss-Kahn attacked her, and for whom no one has yet come up with a boyfriend in a prison in Arizona.

"Minds that don't change are like clams that don't open," she says in an introductory note, and proceeds to provide an italicized running commentary on "Is Gender Necessary?" The commentary is fascinating throughout, but is most notable for what she says about her earlier defense of using the male pronoun and her "utter refusal" to concoct a new term for "he/she".