During Early's raid on Washington, D.C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, "Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!" After repeated calls on Grant to defend Washington, Sheridan was appointed and the threat from Early was dispatched.
Supporters of Proposition 8, who were granted legal status to defend the ban in court, were quick to disagree.
"She should have been granted the right to defend herself to the media," he said.
In that case, the courts had also granted an injunction to defend Kinder Morgan.
In 1770, a group of Wentworth grant holders asked Allen to defend their case before New York's Supreme Court, a move that presented Allen with his first big stage.
How else could this movement attract reputable and intelligent Republican Party leaders, notables and pundits such as Senator Richard Shelby, Tracey Mann, Liz Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Camille Paglia and others to grant the movement legitimacy, to defend the birthers or at a minimum to humor these conspiracy-minded people?
"The right that it grants any Israeli citizen to defend himself also extends to Minister Lieberman, and I hope for him that he'll be able to prove that he's also innocent regarding the only case that remains".
In November, the California court gave the ballot measure backers the go-ahead, ruling that the state's citizens' initiative process grants sponsors the right to defend such measures in court even if state officials refuse to do so.
As stated in Mr Karroubi's open letter of April 9, 2016, should the lifting of his house arrest fall beyond your ability, we request that at least the accused are granted their day in court to defend themselves.
But he moved quickly on Sunday afternoon to fire Defense Minister Art Eggleton after Mr. Eggleton appeared on a news broadcast to defend his granting of a $36,500 contract to a former girlfriend to prepare a 14-page report on post-traumatic stress disorder in the Canadian military.
Even though permission was granted he was still required to defend his dissertation publicly in Latin.
