Sentence examples for firm defender from inspiring English sources

For the Treasury, he named Paul O'Neill, chairman of Alcoa; for the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld, who held the same job in the Ford administration; for the Interior Department, Gale Norton, a westerner and firm defender of property rights; and as labour secretary, Linda Chavez, an outspoken opponent of racial preferences in hiring.

But Obama was no firm defender of the old-age programs.

And Russia has been a firm defender of the Syrian government, a longtime ally.

The Green Party released a separate statement calling Escobar, "A firm defender of the rule of law, who we are sure and convinced is innocent".

But China and Russia remain firm defenders of the rights of sovereign governments to quell secessionist movements, and do not seem squeamish about the means.They may be even keener, after the UN-authorised intervention in Libya, to show that was the exception to a rule of non-interference.

Tony Benn was a true socialist and a firm friend and defender of the trade unions and working people everywhere.

He continues to be a firm and effective defender of America's natural resources, especially our national parks and wilderness areas.

Not only do you (have these) in your hands, but above all you have an idea in your hearts – to liberate the homeland.... Before long, each of you shall be standing in the place that you call home, as a soldier and a gentleman; standing firm as a defender of the idea of saving the culture of Europe – the idea of Adolf Hitler".

"It moved into social control very quickly, in her courtroom," Emma Ketteringham, the managing director of the Family Defense Practice at the law firm the Bronx Defenders, says.

Results show that in defender firms a diagnostic control use of accounting and mechanistic structural controls act as complements, while mechanistic structural controls and measure diversity act as substitutes.

First, this study identifies how a set of MC practices combine (i.e. MC packages) to achieve effective control outcomes for firms operating in defender and prospector strategic contexts by applying fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA).