Sentence examples for firmly defending from inspiring English sources

Mr Corbyn's spokesman issued a statement firmly defending the Labour leader's backing for Stop the War.

BankruptAfter firmly defending its currency for so long, the Russian government unexpectedly allowed the rouble to float, widening its trading band to between 6 roubles to the dollar and 9.5 to give, in effect, a maximum devaluation of 34%.

Now, very similar people are discovering the virtues of semantic change and are firmly defending a shift in the sense of the word to mean "rubbish", in the face of a school playground campaign by Stonewall.

Steve Price-ThOxfam Oxfam's director of advocacy and campaigns, said: "With the other 19 members firmly defending the Paris agreement as irreversible, President Trump's stubborn insistence on propping up the fossil fuel industry leaves him isolated and stuck in the past". He also accused the G20 of treating the world's poorest as an afterthought.

Trump's searing reproach of the California psychology professor defied the Senate Republican strategy, and the advice of White House aides, of not disparaging her while firmly defending his nominee and the tight timetable for confirming him.

Genuine headline from late February 2005: "Sergei Romanovich Zandanov, official of the State Financial and Economic Inspection Committee of the Republic of Bryatia of the Russian Federation, made public a poem titled 'Eternal Defender of Socialism' in praise of leader Kim Jong II who has firmly defended socialism with his Songun politics".

Throughout this chaotic period in the east, the Iranian borderland with the steppe remained firmly defended.

The first is that governments must firmly defend themselves, their principles and their people against terrorists.

But the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, has firmly defended the government's visa cancellation policies.

I firmly defend the principle that disadvantaged children should get extra support.

Governor Gilmore and other state officials have firmly defended the fairness of the death penalty system.