Sentences with phrase «defense of what»

Not only are they still unsuccessful at marketing their individual selves to the world, but their representative organizations have mounted a weak to nonexistent campaign in defense of what they do.

More than half the brief is a principled free - speech defense of what I and Rand Simberg said - or as the contents page puts it:

Since he was involved with the founding and legal counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I think twisting his observation about internet conversations into a defense of what places like RC and Romm's blog do is a bit of distortion.

Vaguely asserting that other people have done worse is a fallacious argument and no defense of what Curry did here.

A few clarifications motivated by your comments: The appreciation of Steve Bloom was associated with his defense of what climate researchers do (I was also puzzled by their characterization of Bender).

The problem is you make lots of big sweeping generalizations and assertions with no logical defense of what you assert.

It looks to me like the oily rhetoric that the carbon companies have been forced into may point to a weak defense of what they knew, when they new it, and what they did about it.

But don't confuse a defense of what is likely with a defense of what is important.]

Some dogs will show signs of submission at first, only to lash out in defense of what it feels is a threat.

However, in defense of what on the entertaining Route 79 seemed like unnecessary nannying, all of this electronic wizardry really came to the fore when negotiating the busy lanes of Highway 15.

As far as Moskowitz is concerned, PBS» response is «nonsense» and its defense of what she calls «home brew statistical manipulations» is indefensible.

[Baker offers a rather lengthy explanation and defense of what happened.]

In defense of what we did, all we can say is that, like all school - based research efforts, we made compromises motivated by cost and credibility.

Thus The Lesser Evil is, throughout, a defense of what Ignatieff understands to be the strength and superiority of democracy, both in itself as a form of government and also as a basis for dealing effectively with the threat of destruction posed by terrorism.

Moral courage is the willingness to suffer discomfort or disgrace in the defense of what is right and good.

In «Two Concepts of Liberty,» Berlin mounted an extended defense of what he understood to be the liberal idea of freedom against its principal modern political competitors, fascism and communism.

I'm not about to get into a pissing match here, but in defense of what I said, a lot of what conservative Christians in this area say and write about Obama is so vitriolic it makes me wince, and if they back it up at all, it's usually with half - truths or outright lies, most of which they have gotten second - or third - hand.

Still it may be useful at this point for us to speculate on why religions are so vigilant in defense of what they perceive to be revealed truth.

The challenge here as well to the Guild is forceful in defense of what the Church has always taught.

I am happy to stand with them in defense of what is right and good.

Ottaviani's approach to theology was neatly summarized in the Latin motto of his cardinalatial coat of arms, Semper Idem [Always the Same], and his fierce defense of what he understood to be orthodoxy made him a not - implausible model for the character of Cardinal Leone in Morris West's novel The Shoes of the Fisherman.

Once again, the parable, we are told, was by way of a defense of what Jesus was doing against the censures of the pious, who are slyly satirized in the figure of the smug elder brother («I never once disobeyed your orders!»).

His message is not focused toward other followers of Jesus, but is a spur - of - the - moment proclamation or public defense of what he believed about Judaism and Jesus.

Olson wants to claim Luther for his own project of «challeng [ing] time - honored and settled positions,» appealing to the Reformation in defense of what I called Meliorism.

These ideas can be considered, even as we know our own commitments in defense of what is important.

Not exact matches

But it's a weak defense, and reminiscent of what Reuters did in 2011, when it used a similar question - posing headline to make the absurd suggestion that George Soros was behind the Occupy Wall Street movement.

But his rants about black Americans and his full - throated defense of police during high - profile shootings were eventually what earned him a seat at the Fox News table, where he frequently appears but is not a paid contributor.

What's more likely, the National Resources Defense Council suggests, is that the development of clean energy technologies will accelerate.

Boeing Defense Space and Security CEO, Leanne Caret, discusses the future of space technology and what role Boeing will play.

That aviation company consists of what he calls the world's largest air force, with more than 50 jet fighters, and offers simulated threats for training exercises for one of its clients, the U.S. Department of Defense.

China, the world's second biggest economy, is looking to build what some policy experts call a «string of pearls» — a network of defense and commercial facilities — around the massive area.

The event may have showcased what tomorrow's products could achieve but away from the limelight, there's a growing network of robotics manufacturers working hard to help integrate machines into defense and law enforcement.

«Human nature kicks in, and he did what I hope most men would do,» said the head of the transit workers union in Oroc's defense.

«Yet whenever I speak to a truly competitive company, that's exactly what they're doing — playing both offense and defense using the power of digital, using the power of technology.

We're going to increase the number of news shows we have and news - type programming, and then there's the lifestyle stuff, like self - defense programming, fitness programming, what is MMA, what is jiu - jitsu, biographies of fighters — there's really an endless supply of content possibilities.

Although the US military, Secretary of State Tillerson, and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis all say unequivocally that the US does not want or train for regime - change missions in North Korea, the president and the military have to do what's best for the country at any cost.

Trump typically was short on details of precisely what he has in mind, particularly how much more in federal treasure he is prepared to spend to destroy terrorists overseas and at home and to transform what many already consider the most powerful military machine on earth to an even stronger, more Trumpian - like defense force.

When asked what would happen to deployed transgender military personnel around the world, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it was «something that the Department of Defense and the White House will have to work together on as implementation takes place.»

But Eisinger reserves his sharpest barbs for what he sees as the clubby culture that has emerged between the top levels of the Justice Department and white - collar defense lawyers.

What's also concerning is that there's been little regulation or technical research about defense techniques to combat the «global proliferation of weaponizable robots.»

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has confirmed Americans and others are being held by Islamic militants after what he calls a «terrorist attack» occurred at a natural gas facility in Algeria.

Those first - line - of - defense indicators give you a solid look at what kind of candidates are using what kind of devices — for how long, and with what degree of success.

My defense, because what has happened since the era of yellow journalism is that you take an anecdote, a proverbial shark - bite and you cause panic.

Defense of the Ancients 2 — commonly referred to as DOTA 2 — is what's known as a multiplayer online battle arena, or MOBA.

Trump's budget also calls for what the President deemed a «historic» increase in military spending, amounting to an additional $ 52 billion allocation for the Department of Defense.

Instead, Facebook's PR team and lower ranking leaders have led the company's defense by drawing technical distinctions between what happened and more common breaches by hackers, and by pointing out that Facebook curtailed the amount of user data it shared with app makers in 2014.

However, there is increasing evidence that the STEM shortage is a myth and, as Fareed Zakaria points out in his book, In Defense of a Liberal Education, what we most need to improve is communication skills.

In May, an investigative team inside the defense ministry announced the hack had been carried out by North Korea, but did not disclose what kind of information had been taken.

So what can you do to profit when the defense budget is draining every taxpayer within an inch of their life?

What's worse, only one of those smelters makes the high - grade stuff that the U.S. defense industry needs to make fighter jets.