Sentence examples for principal defender from inspiring English sources

Thereafter Ligachev would be the principal defender of the rights of the party apparat and of the existing order in general.

As the elected US president, he wrote, Obama was "automatically the principal defender of democracy in the world" and so should use the opportunity to show solidarity with democrats in Cuba.

The suspension has been widely seen as part of a broader effort to pressure Russia, Mr. Assad's principal defender, into more emphatic steps to make him honor terms of the Annan peace plan.

But with the court's principal defender, Vincent O. Nmehielle of Nigeria, serving as his counsel, Mr. Taylor indicated that he would fight any move to transfer the trial to The Hague, insisting that he could receive a fair trial only in Sierra Leone.

A principal defender of the new surveillance policy, and much of the rest of the "rogue justice" detailed by Greenberg, was deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo, who gleefully "ignored some of the most sacred principles of American democracy and law", sometimes without even bothering to inform his boss, Attorney General John Ashcroft.

And the SCSL was the first international court to create the post of Principal Defender to represent the interests of the defence.

Eastwood's drama isn't about the effects of a misguided American military adventure on Iraq but about the effects on America — on the United States's ability to defend itself when the country's principal defenders are laid waste in a needless war.

The revelation came as a complete surprise to the Russians who had been Tehran's principal defenders on the six-nation group that was supposed to be negotiating over the nuclear programme.

American military officials said the synchronized attack would not be a dash into Baghdad, but a methodical, step-by-step advance meant to destroy what remains of the city's principal defenders.

John C. Calhoun, who served as vice president of the United States under two presidents, was among the principal defenders of the institution of slavery, owned slaves himself and argued in both the House and Senate for recognition of a state's right to reject federal laws with which it didn't agree.

Russia is viewed as Mr. Assad's principal foreign defender.