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This week, Mr. Obama's Justice Department is expected to file papers with a federal court in California that, essentially, defend the original policy.

He then went on to essentially defend his rhetorical attacks on Jews and Zionists as an appropriate response to the killing of civilians in Gaza by Israel's military during the offensive that preceded his remarks in 2010.

"I was told that [Carter] had the most powerful litigator in the country and I didn't have the money to pay for an attorney to essentially defend me, if he were to come after me," she told Oz about her discussion with Larsen.

Duff is the best thing about this courtroom drama, wherein Rattigan (a gay playwright) essentially defends the sexually unorthodox Mrs Rattenbury as less wicked than conservative England presumed.

Can you be opposed to Democratic proposals to make the health care system even more liberal, even more regulated or structured by the government, without essentially defending the system that Barack Obama put in place?

As workers, they were essentially defending their bosses' right to profit.

Jezebel pointed out that the Cosmo piece essentially defending the campaign "neglects to mention that women's razors tend to be more expensive than those designed for men," another reason Gillette would want to make them seem extra special -- and specialized -- to female shoppers.

Observers are left with a deeper question: Why, in the year 2015, is the White House teaming up with Republican leaders essentially to defend the practice of slavery?

I was so proud of the sequence in episode 2 which Michelle McLaren directed and I wrote in which Jimmy is dealing with these indigent clients who have no money and who are essentially being defended on the state's dime and to see the details of how he has to negotiate and plead their cases.

The officer said that his colleague driving the car, D49, was left "essentially unable to defend herself".

Under the North Atlantic Treaty, we've essentially pledged to defend the borders of Turkey, a country that has territorial disputes with Syria and that is ringed by flashpoints of ethnic conflict on its southern and western borders with Iraq and Iran, as though they were our own.