He and Dr. Bergen devoted most of their statement to a defense against the commission's criticism that the University of Medicine and Dentistry was subpar compared with premier national medical schools.
"There are many 'evangelicals' who are trying to convince other evangelicals that homosexual immorality is a special case," wrote Denny Burk, one of the architects of the Nashville Statement, in a defense of the document.
Obama ended his statement with a defense of multilateral diplomacy.
The "Arrested Development" actor ended his statement with a defense of his character.
This will make it more difficult for the speaker to bring up the truth of her statement as a defense.
The statement, which included a defense of his much-maligned academic record and a rebuttal of accusations that his education had been financed with soiled money, represented the first time that Mr. Bo had spoken publicly since his parents disappeared this month into the maw of China's notoriously opaque justice system.
It is also a statement of a credo, an incisive defense of Mr. Kissinger's version of realism in diplomatic matters.
Ms. Plavsic, who is divorced and has no children, was prominent in the Bosnian Serb wartime leadership, and her nationalistic statements included a defense of "ethnic cleansing" as a "natural phenomenon".
It is possible that Fogle's statements were a defense of Romanticism as a group that was both respectable in terms of thought and poetic ability.
Yuan had asked him to prepare for the possibility of a trial, and he had begun drafting a statement of defense.
In a statement of defense made available to ScienceInsider, Pekünlü claims that he took those pictures with the students' permission in order to document violations of the university's declared ban on allowing headscarves on campus.
