Sentence examples for emphatic defense from inspiring English sources

Despite his emphatic defense of the department in a news conference at City Hall, Mr. Giuliani conceded for the first time that he would consider appointing someone to oversee the process of handling civilian complaints against the police.

With her emphatic defense of Ms. Knox (criticizing the "appalling" treatment of her by the Italian courts and news media, insisting "the evidence didn't exist," that the "jury rubber-stamped a conviction"), Ms. Burleigh seemed at times to move from journalist to advocate, treading what she knew, as a longtime reporter and author, was a dangerous line.

The mayor's heated statements have been parsed by various black and Latino officials this week in a way indicating that he could be reopening deep wounds among the minority residents he had alienated with his emphatic defense of the Police Department.

Stevens-Henager announced last year that it was converting to become a non-profit college, notwithstanding the emphatic defense that its sole owner, Carl Barney, has made of private sector higher education.  .

But on Monday, before the Assembly's budget committee, which passed the measure 7 to 5, she offered her first emphatic public defense of the idea.

And Representative Paul D. Ryan, the Budget Committee chairman, was emphatic in defense of his budget proposal, despite Democratic criticism that it recycles ideas that voters rejected in November, including a plan to turn Medicare into a subsidy for private insurance purchases.

But Mr. Obama could not completely escape the domestic controversy over the federal government's surveillance of domestic phone records and foreign Internet traffic, despite his attempt early on Friday to dampen the furor with an emphatic public defense of the antiterrorism tactics.

Ayatollah Montazeri (Grand Ayatollah after 1984) was emphatic in his defense of human rights in Iran.

Mystics Coach Darrell Walker could no longer coax emphatic full-court defense out of his club.

Mr. Bloomberg, asked about the issue at a news conference, was emphatic in his defense of the city's position.

But he is emphatic in his defense of his record, characterizing himself as a champion of economic development and issues affecting children.