On a final note, thanks are due to the Office of the State Public Defender, and to Assistant Public Defender Brent Getty, who zealously defended David Lenio within the bounds of the law.
"It is zealously defended," said David Gruber, the president of the Carmine Street Block Association, speaking of the neighborhood's historic character.
The Indian government makes a point of exempting diplomats from half-rupee (1.4 American cents) highway tolls: a right zealously defended by the local diplomatic corps.
Diverting that money to the police would be tricky politically, because corrections budgets are zealously defended in state capitals by prison administrators, unions and legislators.
The comments were a sharp departure from his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, who had zealously defended church doctrine, once calling homosexuality "a strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil".
She began her career as a teacher of troubled teenagers and young adults and spent most of her working years as a literary agent who embraced her many authors to whom she was deeply devoted and whom she zealously defended.
