Sentences with phrase «against conservative criticism»
CNN: Top Catholic defends Obama invite against conservative criticism Cardinal Timothy Dolan, America's most prominent Catholic official, defended on Wednesday the decision to invite President Barack Obama to a major Catholic dinner in the face of criticism from conservatives, saying the event is an opportunity for «friendship, civility and patriotism» amid a heated political campaign.
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Nonetheless, EPB's venture into fiber optics has drawn criticism from conservative critics and rivals wary of government - owned utilities competing against privately owned cable TV, telephone and internet business.
Five theologians, ranging from conservative evangelical to radical, present their views, criticize one another, and then defend themselves against the criticism.
Nick Clegg has defended the coalition government against criticism, telling those Lib Dems who are uncomfortable working with the Conservatives that it was the only way to respond to the general election result.
During the Suez Crisis, he defended the Conservative Government against opposition «carping criticisms».
But it should be kept in mind that among our own conservatives, there is a home - grown hostility towards the UN which emerged in the late 1990s in the Australian campaign against the UN's human rights system.2 The criticisms by the Howard Government of the UN human rights system and the calls for it to be reformed were driven by anger and embarrassment at international condemnation of Australia's treatment of asylum seekers and inability to solve the problems of Indigenous disadvantage.