Sentences with phrase «by coming to her defense»

While overwhelmingly Democratic African - American voters have received considerable attention from Clinton during the campaign, black leaders refused to reciprocate by coming to her defense when she and her husband came under attack, the source charged.

Not exact matches

The Trump - Xi phone call came as Japan set up a missile - defense system in western areas of the country, following a threat by North Korea to fire missiles over Japan toward the U.S. territory of Guam.

But several women, including Boyle, came to Carlson's defense, telling their own stories of alleged harassment by Ailes.

But among all of the predominantly negative comments, a rare few have come to the Model X driver's defense by noting the level of difficulty involved when reversing into a Supercharger stall, especially with a bike rack mounted to the back of the vehicle.

He cultivated a relationship with Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick and publicly came to his defense when he was ousted as chief executive officer and sued by another investor.

«Such social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good faith, guided by reason and conscience, can come to different conclusions.»

At the end, having agonized through much of the poem over the questions posed by his gnostic favorites, he comes back much more strongly to a defense of the categories of Christian worship.

And today, rather than playing defense, American seminaries like Mundelein in Chicago are exploring how the Church might go on offense — not in an offensive way, but by developing new models of a 21st - century apologetics that invites disenchanted post-moderns to experience the divine mercy and come to know the truths to which that experience leads.

Islam at the beginning held the sword only when it was necessary to survive the wars launched against it by the Pagans of Mecca beside the Persians who then were worshipping fire... Any way remember that we never came closer to the West until the launched their first attacks against Muslims by the crusaders that came from the west towards Jerusalem... Such acts has drove Islam to adopt the policy that says «Attack is the best means of defense» to push the crusaders further back.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.

When it comes to my relationship with God and with other Christians, I'm as quick as anyone else to try and protect myself from honest dialog by hiding behind flowery, unhelpful language (or, my favorite defense mechanism: to intellectualize everything so that it can't hurt me).

I can't figure out what is the worst thing to come out of this Washington Post article on the new book by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

The FDA's decision comes in response to a Court Order to respond to a petition filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) proposing to ban the use of BPA.

Last season Arsenal came close to becoming the best defense in the entire league with good defensive stats, but this good news was smashed by the conceding 22 horrible goals against the teams in the top five, 20 of those on away games to those same top teams (Chelsea, City, Liverpool, and Everton).

You do have a point and I can not honestly disagree with that but with figure like Cech I would like to think that we'd have more confidence going forward and pinning back teams, watch Sczezny, he almost deliberately invites attacks to show off his reflexes, Ospina came in and cut that crap especially by constantly organizing his defense but physically not built up enough for a world class goalkeeper, we lost three points to Swansea for that reason [Befitimbi Gomis» goal - line technology goal?]

Offense from the defense seems to be a lot harder to come by in the playoffs considering the target that offensive defensemen have in the matchup game.

While being defended by the likes of Mario Chalmers and Norris Cole in Game 1, the 5» 9 guard had little trouble finding seams to penetrate the Miami defense, but adjustments are likely coming for Game 2.

The defense was the real star for the Eagles, finally coming together to force four turnovers, one of which was a pick - six by cornerback Nolan Carroll on a perfect grab en route to the end zone.

Again, Rice's representation came to his defense, saying, «neither Ray nor myself will try this case in the media,» but acknowledged that the footage released by TMZ did, indeed, depict the couple.

Bellerin and Monreal is always almost on the corner line crossing ball's, we are always leaving defense bankrupt and vulnerable for a take over, by the time Monreal and Bellerin return to their station they have just sprinted the whole of the pitch to make a defensive tackle sometimes coming in from behind the player in our box without giving a penalty or just outside for a free kick which we can not defend set peaces, if we are to use them some midfield players have to drop back which is not happening at the moment

They came by land and by air, if not by sea, and they didn't squeak by the Vikings but roared over them in an awesome display of offense and defense to win their second straight Super Bowl

But the analogy is never more apt than when it comes to Kevin Sumlin's version of the Air Raid, run by the most electrifying player in college football, taking on a Nick Saban defense.

While the Broncos had the top defense in the NFL this season rated by total yards surrendered, the Carolina Panthers were the top team in the league when it came to forcing turnovers.

In 2010, Berry did his best to do things a bit off - kilter — running when opponents expected the pass, passing when opponents expected the run, keeping things fast - paced (possibly not the best idea for an underdog), employing the underdog - friendly 3 -3-5 defense, etc. — and the results were decent; despite low overall quality, ULM won five games, three by a touchdown or less, and came within a one - point loss to UL - Lafayette of finishing bowl - eligible.

Had they not been aided by a pick - six and great field position in the fourth quarter from McCarron's second interception, that streak of 30 - point games could have come to an end on Sunday against a Bengals defense that didn't allow Ben Roethlisberger to throw a touchdown pass.

The Eagles defense came in at 22.1 % ownership, but capped off an incredible all - around performance by finding its way into the winning Milli Maker lineup thanks to 3 sacks and 2 interceptions.

The other half is to play only our fighters to wear and tire the opposition then Ozil comes in the second half to finish the job by picking more holes in the opposition defense for more scoring opportunities.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

Arsenal's FA Cup defense came to an end at such early stage as Arsene Wenger's boys found themselves getting eliminated by Nottingham Forest on Sunday.

The story told by the stats is that both teams mix a heavy amount of run into their offensive attack, both are best - in - class efficient in the passing game, both are stingy when it comes to giveaways, both control explosive plays on defense, and both are solid in establishing field position through special teams.

With Gabriel coming into defense, Arsenal will not be as solid as they are with Laurent Koscielny and will have to be wary of the aerial threat posed by Christian Benteke.

They were outplayed by Tottenham Hotspur for 160 minutes, but those 20 minutes they had to themselves were decisive, and after they arrive in the last eight riding the momentum of their come - from - behind win at Wembley Stadium and their sweep into first place in Serie A. Gonzalo Higuain, Paulo Dybala, and Douglas Costa are all hot, forming an attack that no one wants to see coming at them, while their always - stout defense is an imposing obstacle for any team.

Biggs: A good defense wouldn't get put away by Brett Hundley - Chicago Tribune - The Bears were coming off an open date and had an extra week to prepare.

Coming back to Milan Barcelona fixture, the Italians are renowned for their defense and they proved it against Catalans by not allowing them clear sight of goal in the San Siro.

By now, it's not just fun with a small sample size when it comes to how Juve's defense has rebounded from a truly un-Juventus-like first two months of the season where they were leaking goals on a regular basis.

I have been pleasantly surprised by the increase in those coming to the defense of the right of children to have proper feeding (breastfeeding) and of the right of their Mothers to provide it.

Moreover, anyone who comes to the defense of flavored milk is often accused of being co-opted (or haplessly brainwashed) by the dairy industry, which obviously has a vested interest in keeping flavored milk in school cafeterias.

MENY PAC lauded Rice, saying she has «come out swinging in her support for LGBT rights» by becoming the first AG hopeful to promise to sue the federal government over the Defense of Marriage Act.

Slaughter continues to stand by it, noting the numbers came directly from the Department of Defense.

Defense lawyers have sought to make the trial into a referendum for jurors on Howe; his name came up hundreds of times over the past two days of closing arguments by lawyers from the four defenseDefense lawyers have sought to make the trial into a referendum for jurors on Howe; his name came up hundreds of times over the past two days of closing arguments by lawyers from the four defensedefense teams.

The arrest comes after Howe admitted during a cross-examination by a defense attorney on Thursday that he lied to his credit card company about a supposed stay by him at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York back in 2016.

The revelations came in the government's response to a pretrial motion by a defense attorney that prosecutors were not turning over discovery material to the defense fast enough.

«It's comes as no surprise that Congressman Michael Grimm who is currently being investigated by the FBI himself, would be the first elected official in the country to come to Chris Christie's defense,» said DCCC spokesman Marc Brumer.

The bill comes after officials, including Republican County Executive Edward Mangano, who were arrested in federal corruption cases, tapped their campaign funds to pay for their defense, as is allowed by law.

«The Department of Defense is going to invest $ 110 million over five years while $ 500 million will come from a consortium across 20 states including 55 companies, 33 community colleges, 16 non-profit organizations, 20 universities led by the Research Foundation for the State University of New York,» Biden said.

The letter amounts to a defense of the Cuomo - backed Clean Energy Standard which is aimed at having half of the state's energy come from renewable sources of fuel by 2030.

The defense will seek to undermine Constand's credibility by highlighting her delay in coming forward and apparent willingness to continue to meet Cosby after the incident.

While Eldridge has yet to be officially endorsed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, DCCC spokesperson Emily Bittner came to Eldridge's defense:

By securing this agreement we will strengthen our position as a leader in aerospace and the defense industry fields for many, many years to come.»