Sentences with phrase «defended what»

In an essay published a few years ago Nicholas McBride vigorously defended what he called an «idealist» view that affirms the existence of duties of care, against what he called the «cynical» position that denies their existence.

Over the years we've had people come who could not take an criticism at all and defended what they'd written, no critique group has time for that.

In an animated discussion, Miller, 68, defended what has become one of the more controversial aspects of NCLB, testing and accountability.

At a second press conference inside of City Hall before the start of the council meeting, Quinn defended what she jokingly described as her «graceful and elegant and dainty gazelle - like walk up the stairs.»

Only yesterday, the Prime Minister defended what he saw as a done deal but ITV news understands that there might at least be a concession over how quickly the money needs to be repaid.

Daniel Day Williams, no less appreciative and also having appropriated some of Niebuhr's thought, defended what he saw as liberalism's positive contributions, and provided a critique that was to have a resurgence later.

Instead they challenged members of the old guard to defend what they call dated business models.

In her memory, we devote our actions to a just cause; to defend what is right and to protect the interest of not only shareholders but most importantly the far more important stakeholders of employees, drivers and customers whose lives have been forever altered by the abiding faith and fervent hard work of Travis Kalanick and the Uber team.

The USTR should not take the extraordinary step of invoking Article XXI to defend what we believe is protectionism.»

In a meeting at the White House, Mr. Sessions informed Mr. Trump that he would not defend what he considered an unconstitutional order in court, according to people familiar with the conversation, and officials at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security have made the case to the president that his administration would look foolish if it argued in favor of preserving it.

Dude, can you defend what you believe?

«I want to passionately present my case and defend what I believe, but we never imagined it would become this big.

Distinguished sociologist Peter Berger defends what he regards as American civil religion, the first commandment of which is (he says) «Thou shalt be tolerant!»

Most who disagree with Calvinism do a poor job defending what they believe.

Most of the time we are ready to defend what we already believe, not willing to be open minded enough to change.

What about it disturbs you so much that you put so much effort into avoiding it even though the Bible does indeed teach us to study that we may be approved, and to defend what it teaches us without fear?

I am all in favor of having correct theology and being able to defend what we believe, but we must never forget the age - old truth that for most people, our life is the only theology book they will ever read.

Well Nic, it's really a pity that you have to defend What Yeshua Said to everybody.

You seem to be a somewhat reasonable person, and I presume the cognitive dissonance that is required to defend what can not be defended logically prohibits you from even contemplating such a proposition seriously.

Don't get me wrong, I want to defend what Berry defends too, insofar as he is critical of quantatative measures of all elements of human life.

You said yes, and now you're DEFENDING WHAT YOU SAID WAS WRONG.

I am not on here to «argue» the FACTS of the Bible to you, just defend what the Bible says to all the fasle reasonings and False tales being told out there.

They won't hear you because they will be devastated by your verbal attacks or will be pissed enough to defend what they said to begin with.

Like «Pat's Run», among other activities to honor the falling heroes on 9 - 11, and those like him who honored their country and died defending what happened on 9 - 11.

As there are feminists who insist that to defend woman is to defend what makes her most singularly a woman — the ability to give birth to new life.

If Aristotle were alive today the last thing he would be is an Aristotelian if what it means to bean Aristotelian is to defend what I will call a symmetrical theory of internal relations.

If you mean I would take aways someones freedom to yell «fire» in a crowed room where there is no fire, Yep, I would take that freedom away; however, if you see me debating and defending what I believe with someone who thinks different, and you define that as not willing to let people have freedom, then you misunderstand the concept of freedom.

We and the world in which we live would, in my opinion, be the better for it if we followed and did as Jesus taught, which so few do, rather than spend our hours and days in endless discussions and arguments defending what we suppose to be a group of perfect, from the mouth of God, writings.

Even Russell Moore is throwing in the towel on defending what the word evangelicalmeans this election season.

«Christian groups fail to emphasize and defend what is right.

Everyone picks what they want out of the Bible & uses it to defend what they personally want it to say!

The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse.

If I had an argument with a friend, I'd assume she was defending what she considered a sensible opinion, rather than that she was attacking me.

As for Solzhenitsyn, I will defend what I heard through his creative art, but I remain free of his ideology, which for me is quite foreign.»

2For this reason, I should not wish to defend what Morris speaks of as «a standard tenet of process thought that God needs the [sic] world in order to be who he is.»

Acts 2:31 nicely defends what's actually in the Creed.

Homosexuals are defending what they do, re-defining marriage, and screaming for rights to do it and do it and do it — regardless of the damage it is causing.

Some time we fans are the problem of the team because we defend what is not there

«I'd never defend what he did, but there's always more to a situation like that,» Freedom football coach Kevin Hartwig said by phone on April 3.

«I will always try to defend what I think is important in our sport, that means the values of our game.

The goal completely changes the complexion of the tie... Chelsea have got an all important away goal in their Champions League Last 16 tie against Paris Saint - Germain, as they now have something to defend it is likely we could see Jose Mourinho's side defend what they have for the remainder of the game.

Per was continuously making poor headers / passes and was only asked to defend what was in front of him.

The club needed to defend what it had.

But there were local elections in the offing the following May in which the party was due to defend what, by what at that point at least, appeared to be the high watermark of having been neck and neck with the SNP in the 2012 local elections.

The two main parties look to be in a strong position to defend what they won in 2010 but seem less well placed to launch attacks on their target seats — hence the likelihood of a stalemate.

Aregbesola called on members of the opposition parties, particularly those castigating his government unjustly, to come to the public and defend what PDP achieve while in government.

Governor Rick Perry is in New York to lure corporations to the «Lone Star State,» and decided to invite Gov. Andrew Cuomo to defend what he calls our unfriendly business climate.

«I'm not going to accuse my colleagues of lies or disinformation, they will need to defend what they've said,» he added.

He said: «There was a general mood from the PLP that all members of the PLP should be out there defending the achievements of the last Labour government and defending what Labour achieved in seats such as Stoke and Copeland - that is part of what we need to be saying.»

BY MARC MATURO There was no coin toss to decide who would receive the ball and which team would be defending what goal, and there was no penalty called despite a late start as a long line of patient fans waited for the first autograph session to start.