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Related to defended: toppled, instigating, recreated

See: guarded, insusceptible, ironclad, safe, secure

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Washington [USA], September 26 ( ANI ): The White House on Monday (local time) defended US President Donald Trump's escalating rhetoric with the National Football League (NFL) over players taking a knee during the national anthem before their Sunday games to protest the perceived social injustices.

White House defends Trump over NFL row

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal defended the

Fifty states, fifty attorneys general, and fifty approaches to the duty to defend

2 : to act or speak in favor of when others are opposed <She defended her teacher against the class's complaints.

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It is a similar story in Bordesley Green and Washwood Heath - both defended by Lib Dem councillors this year - where Labour won with huge majorities of 1,270 and 2,220 in 2007.

Fringe parties could be key on May 1 local council elections; Conservatives expect to make steady progress in this year's Birmingham City Council elections, but not enough to gain outright control of Britain's largest local authority, says Public Affairs Editor Paul Dale

1 mandatory contender -- Williams -- provided the winner next defended the title against Williams.

VAZQUEZ-MARQUEZ HAS PUNCH

If the ball is passed from the wing back to the point, the original "Basket-Man"--X1 (who has defended the "Wing-Pass," the first pass) would then also defend the "Reversal Pass.

Transition breakdown drill: a "3 on 2" to "2 on 1" (focus on defense)

It was a complete failure to recognise that you can only have a justice system if people are properly defended.

Findlay: I'd defend Nazi war criminals and Osama; JODI KILLER'S LIVID LAWYER SLAMS CRITICS

Speaking to the December 19 Denver Post, Kieserman defended the Coast Guard's recently enacted policy of deploying cutters off Latin America and arresting foreign nationals trying to leave their own countries.

"Interdiction," or aggression?

Not only has Pryor loudly defended Judge Roy Moore's installation of a gigantic granite Ten Commandments monument within the Alabama Supreme Court building, he has also raised the ire of reproductive rights groups by referring to the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v.

Pryor offenses: Bill Pryor has led a religious right crusade against church-state separation in Alabama. Now the Bush administration wants him on the federal appeals court

It began, "What was once seen as an act of desperation--the killing of one's own child--is now fiercely defended as a good decision and promoted as a right.

Bishop Henry: "A deadly blindness". (News in Brief: Canada)

Ortec International (Nasdaq:ORTC), New York, has successfully defended an opposition filed with the European Patent Office by Advanced Tissue Sciences, Inc.

ORTEC SUCCESSFULY DEFENDS EUROPEAN PATENT ON ORCEL

Carlyle defended slavery on the grounds that blacks weren't fully human and that slavery could make them more so.