Sentence examples for explain and defend from inspiring English sources

Around the dinner table, the young Ralph was called on to explain and defend his beliefs.

The struggle to explain and defend deficit spending has a proud history as well.

Saunders is a highly experienced prosecutor and has not shied away from public appearances to explain and defend her decisions.

The purpose of parliamentary questions is to hold ministers accountable, obliging them to explain and defend government policy to MPs.

And it sparked enough restaurant-world head scratching and second guessing that he felt compelled to explain and defend himself in a post on the blog Eater.com.

While intelligence officials have tried to explain and defend the N.S.A. programs, their efforts have been seriously handicapped by accusations of inaccuracy.

Christine Brennan of USA Today agreed: "Try explaining and defending the nickname to a child.

Gordimer then read a statement from Rushdie in which he explained and defended his book.

"They have the finger of suspicion pointed at them and have to spend half their time explaining and defending".

"Mitt and I, because of that, were much more experienced in explaining and defending our religion," McBride told me.

EXECUTIVES from the Northrop Grumman Corporation began explaining and defending the company's hostile $2.1 billion bid for Newport News Shipbuilding yesterday.