Sentence examples for explicitly defend from inspiring English sources

How often does a lawyer get to so explicitly defend the rule of law?

Mrs. Whitman did not explicitly defend the administration's effort to win Congressional approval for oil drilling in the refuge.

Although police officials did not explicitly defend the shooting, they suggested that it was justified, saying that the man relentlessly punched the officers and grabbed at one of their guns.

Although police officials did not explicitly defend the shooting at a news conference last night, they suggested that it was justified, saying that the shooting victim, Darnell Cisco, relentlessly punched the officers and grabbed at one of their handguns.

But there is something rather odd about the enterprise, given that Farber is one of the relatively small band of law professors who explicitly defend pragmatism as the right way for judges and lawyers to think about law, especially American constitutional law.

Hausman (1992) argues that current methodological practice closely resembles Mill's methodology, despite the fact that few economists explicitly defend it.

Wisse never explicitly defends the idea that Jewish humor tends to be masochistically self-deprecating.

But Mr Rohani has steered clear of explicitly defending the Syrian regime, instead choosing simply to condemn the use of chemical weapons.

Ms. McCaughey seemed to have evidence for her conclusion that "he explicitly defends discrimination against older patients" in a recent New York Post opinion article.

Guns and butter, please, and not too high a bill.This, I suggest, explains the Government's odd, multi-track presentation of public spending cuts this week: a National Security Strategy unveiled on Monday, defence spending unveiled by David Cameron in person on Tuesday (and explicitly defended by the prime minister as a package that still left Britain as a global player).

Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, "While the Constitution makes no provisions for health care, it explicitly defends the people's right to form militias; clearly, the Founders believed that if anyone should be looking up our asses it shouldn't be a doctor, but someone with a gun".