Sentence examples for issues defended from inspiring English sources

Initially, there were many territorial issues defended around this table and an unwillingness to share important information.

Randel Johnson, the chamber's senior vice president for labor and immigration issues, defended the program, saying it "features a streamlined process for employers to register job openings that can be filled by temporary foreign workers, while still ensuring that American workers get first crack at every job".

Helen Darling, president of the Washington Business Group on Health, a group of 165 large companies that studies health policy issues, defended this trend: "For the past six years, health costs have increased sharply, and for the first three years, most corporations absorbed those increases.

President Obama used an impromptu news conference on Monday to wade into domestic and campaign issues, defending his demand that his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, release more of his tax returns and returning fire in the debate over Medicare.

But part of the relationship started years earlier, as records and interviews show that Mr. Gingrich, as House leader in the 1990s, aligned himself with Freddie and Fannie on a number of key issues — defending them in Congress against political attacks, joining with them on housing projects and seeing top aides go work for them.

Bauer delivered the most emphatic speech on the issue, defending Romney's response in no uncertain terms.

"This could have been done in the United States by groups that have many years and decades of research [experience]." Clinical embryologist Jacques Cohen of Reprogenetics in Livingston, New Jersey, who has advised Zhang's team about regulatory issues, defends their decision to perform the procedure in Mexico because of the U.S. restrictions.

Conscious of criticism by Republicans that he is too soft on China over human rights issues, Obama defended his adminstration's record.

The head teacher of a school for children with behavioural issues has defended her decision to permit pupils to smoke.

When asked who was responsible for not addressing the mechanical issue, Girardi defended the pitching coach Larry Rothschild, and added that it was Nova's responsibility.

On the maps issue, Cook defended the decision to drop Google maps in principle, suggesting Google blocked the provision of turn-by-turn navigation and voice direction.