America was "rightly" defending its industry.
But the principle is the same, though people who rightly defend Rushdie, while blaming the cartoonists and their editor for incitement, seem yet to have figured that out.
The UK is now rightly defending the European commission and the European court of justice from being subverted by eurozone demands to use these institutions to police any putative euro settlement.
But that does not mean we should avert our concern, even if we feel impelled to avert our eyes, and this year provided fresh instances of filmmakers who felt the need — which they would stoutly and rightly defend — to haul their patient, pensive films to the brink of nastiness and beyond.
Israel contends that it was rightly defending a legal blockade and that it only responded with force once its soldiers were attacked with sticks and knives.
Remember, they may be representing you in court, but there will still be other important things they would need in order to rightly defend you.
If they do find out you can rightly defend that it is your behind, and you bought it with your own money.
Mr. Polenz says that every German chancellor is responsible, rightly, for defending Israel because of the Holocaust.
"Liberty's first president, E M Forster, rightly called defending civil liberties 'the fight that is never done'," she said.
The man who was delivered to the presidency by the power of a free and open internet, grassroots donations-style, rightly should defend that very platform against imminent threats.
