Sentence examples for to defend that position from inspiring English sources

To defend that position with integrity, however, would require a kind of detachment that autograph collectors do not possess.

So my main goal after I was sixth in the first run was to defend that position and I'm pretty satisfied that I did that.

"I recognize that our office is on record in opposition to a secure national identifier, and I will be ever alert to defend that position," he wrote in an October 1993 memorandum to Mr. Fielding.

I think that in many large companies, a lot of politics arise because somebody makes a statement in a meeting, and then it's weeks of wasted time and effort because they have to dig in to defend that position, and then politics come into play because they now want to lobby for their position.

Today's Altima rose steadily to become America's second-best-selling car in 2012 (after the Toyota Camry), and the redesigned Altima that made its debut in New York seemed to have been created expressly to defend that position rather than to seize the high ground.

I suggest that the growing realization that our position in today's world is a conservative position and that it takes more than appeasement to defend that position is one of the root causes for the phenomenal rise in conservative thought in America today.

"I think, at that stage, you're in a much stronger position to defend that from a legal challenge".

"What we're seeing after Citizens United are Republicans having endless amounts of money to attack and attack and attack, so you have to be in a position to defend that," Luján said.

A declaration of Palestinian independence would force them to either defend that position to (mostly appalled) electorates, or change it.

Dostoevsky in no way wants to defend the position that Ivan Karamazov outlines in his poem.

To defend the position that equality is per se morally desirable one would need carefully to investigate the scenarios in which egalitarian transfers are attractive and the variety of principles that would support egalitarian transfers in those scenarios.