When we compromise with democracy in order to achieve some other purpose, even when the purpose is to defend democracy, then we are in danger of losing it.
Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, said the project's purpose was to defend against the use of a limited number of nuclear missiles by nations like North Korea, and was designed to eliminate mutual destruction as a strategy.
Its main purpose is to defend that privilege.
The main purpose was to defend freedom of speech".
She also attended a meeting of the local chapter of ACT! for America, a Florida-based group that says its purpose is to defend Western civilization against Islam.
They argued that the moral justification for a just war is when its purpose is to defend the innocent against evil.
His purpose was to defend the Protestants against further oppression, to restore the dukes of Mecklenburg, his relatives, who had been driven from their lands by Ferdinand's forces, and perhaps to strengthen Sweden's strategic position in the Baltic.
The party whose initial primary purpose was to defend the rights of workers toiling in unspeakable conditions became as much the party of equal opportunity, particularly for women and ethnic minorities.
In at least two other such incidents, American investigators are examining whether Patriot missile batteries, whose purpose is to defend against incoming missiles, mistakenly hit British and American warplanes.
