Sentences with phrase «engaged in the defense»

After the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan adopted a policy of high levels of military spending to force the USSR to match this spending on the premise that the U.S. had an economy more capable of engaging in this defense spending without collapsing than the Soviets, a concept many considered historically vindicated when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, following in close succession by the splintering of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, and the unification of Germany.

Steve Wollmer, communications director for the NJEA and frequent combatant with Bradford, said he expects B4K to be fully engaged in defense of an agenda being otherwise promoted by Christie and his administration.

I have only read the abstract and intro, and am not about to engage in a defense of a paper on the substance of the science, when others can and are defending it more eloquently than I. I have no firm belief one way or the other at this time.

And while you are not an author in the IPCC process you have engaged in its defense.

He is primarily engaged in the defense of civil suits on behalf of individuals, insureds and self - insured entities.

Claire Ryan is a partner with the firm, primarily engaged in the defense of civil suits in the areas of employment litigation, professional liability, commercial litigation, and insurance coverage issues.

From 1993 through 1996, she was an associate with a Pennsylvania firm engaged in defense litigation on behalf of several major insurance companies.

Not exact matches

One of Israel's largest defense firms confirmed it was engaged in talks with India over a deal for its Spike anti-tank guided missiles.

A former top military aide to Secretary Ash Carter used a government credit card to pay large bar tabs at strip clubs in Rome and in South Korea frequented by prostitutes and engaged in «inappropriate» behavior with women, a long - awaited report by the Department of Defense Inspector General released Thursday found.

SAO PAULO Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA, engaged in joint - venture talks with Boeing Co, missed analysts» quarterly profit estimates and its own annual targets on Thursday, due to weaker deliveries and writedowns on defense programs and executive jets.

Had his peers refuted the premise of his question with a reasoned defense of the freedom of consensual adults to engage in physiologically dangerous sex - acts, then they would have been engaging in informative social influence through positive rational or rhetorical persuasion.

Your defense of your previous characterization of the biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah reveals a person who has flatly refused to engage in even the most basic of educational pursuits.

Some recent contributions to this conversation include Grace Biskie's plea to engage in racial reconciliation, Erin Thomas» story of what it's like to be a person of faith with Asperger's Syndrome, Aric Clark's defense of the passionate Mainline, Dianna Anderson's explanation of what feminism is not, and Registered Runaway's heartbreaking post about what happened when his father learned he was gay.

They engage in terrorism in defense of empire, but they know that to acknowledge openly abhorrent means and goals could undermine the national myths that hold the nation together.

This he could not do, and so, in self - defense against the moral challenge from his brother, Cain engaged in «Just War» against Abel, and murdered him.

Such a defense seems to come down to this: the local church is preserved from suffocating provincialism when it intentionally engages in dialogue with other churches and when it remains steadfast in appropriating and witnessing to the «apostolic tradition.»

A century ago, the noted Protestant leader Abraham Kuyper recognized that the common defense of a Christian worldview made necessary precisely the kind of effort in which we are today engaged.

Although contemporary feminists may champion women's self - defense, few are anxious for women to engage in aggressive violence or to emulate male war - making as a way of proving women's equality.

An appeal to the unchanging teaching of the Church does little justice to the Church Fathers who engaged their whole minds and souls in the defense and articulation of the truth, based on Scripture, reason, liturgy, peculiar strands of philosophy, and sundry other allies they mustered to their side.

Richard Swinburne has engaged with the rigors of logic and analytical philosophy to offer a philosophical clarification and defense of classic Christian beliefs (especially as formulated in the medieval West).

Nor is there anything ordinary about the time we are given in which to engage great causes, like the cause of the defense of life.

In each of these instances, the same moral premises are engaged and the same parties understand that the defense of Roe V. Wade is at stake.

The Communication subcommittee of the Food Waste Reduction Alliance engages with stakeholders working on food waste reduction and food donation in the U.S. Groups like the U.S. EPA, USDA, Composting Council, and the Natural Resources Defense Council are all working on specific aspects of food waste.

That needs to be fed on offense in order to be engaged on defense.

Whenever he played in central defense he looked ruthless, engaging the ball, making crunching tackles, winning headers, making last - ditch interceptions, was one of the first to wade into fights between players, and just generally got «stuck in», as coaches like to say.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

Remember, many parents naturally come to the defense of their child and may have a difficult time believing their child is engaging in any type of bullying behavior.

they could also hide it: germany maintained its defense capabilities and expertise before ww2 by engaging in construction and research in defense outside of germany.

Since the News Feed algorithm shows a user more of whatever they appear to engage with, someone who posts or comments frequently in defense of one side will be shown more content reinforcing that stance, leading to an impression of greater polarization, he worries, convincingly.

He hired full - time immigration lawyers to advise assistant district attorneys and defense lawyers on the deportation consequences of engaging immigrants in plea deals — which in some cases can trigger deportation proceedings.

The Enterprise, the most decorated ship of the Second World War, launched the first aircraft in defense of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and engaged in 20 of the 22 Pacific War battles.

But in a move that Burkle calls «unprecedented,» President Bush transferred that authority to the Department of Defense in 2003, leaving a single agency in charge of both engaging the enemy and patching up the people they blow apart.

Over evolutionary time, the bacterial and plant populations have engaged in an arms race, where the bacteria evolve new effector proteins to help them sneak in, while the plant acquires new defense proteins to uncover and respond to the attack.

Defense Acquisition Workforce: The Air Force Needs to Evaluate Changes in Funding for Civilians Engaged in Space Acquisition.

Healthy Traditions Network also supports the Farm - to - Consumer Legal Defense Fund, which protects the rights of farmers and consumers to engage in direct commerce; it protects the rights of farmers to sell the products of the farm and the rights of consumers to access the foods of their choice from the source of their choice.

Sure, it's to bridge a connection and unity between their opposing viewpoints so that Lyndon B. Johnson's staunch pushing of the Civil Rights Act feels in character for someone that previously toed the line of racism (he has a friendly association with an openly bigoted US Senator played by Richard Jenkins in a subplot without much engaging drama or consequence), but it also isn't a good enough defense for formulaic and conventional filmmaking.

This year, issues such as sustainable food (In Defense of Food), gender inequality in the tech industry (CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap), and homelessness (Dogtown Redemption) engaged audiences and provided hope and opportunities for positive changIn Defense of Food), gender inequality in the tech industry (CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap), and homelessness (Dogtown Redemption) engaged audiences and provided hope and opportunities for positive changin the tech industry (CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap), and homelessness (Dogtown Redemption) engaged audiences and provided hope and opportunities for positive change.

Violence: Characters engage in self - defense fighting, physical altercations and brawls.

Make the students play defense, and they will be engaged in playing when the other team is at bat.

Successive governments of the same ruling Liberal Democratic Party, for the entirety of the postwar period, took the official position that Article 9 of the constitution can not be said to ban the country's right of individual self - defense in its most minimal fashion, but they have consistently ruled out the possibility of exercising CSD, engaging in other countries» wars when Japan is not attacked, as unconstitutional.

Saying he is engaged in a «classic battle» with Congressional Republicans over the federal government's role in education, President Clinton last week issued the most impassioned defense of his education record to date and urged educators to join the fray.

Under this defense, participants are liable for the reasonably foreseeable injuries occurring in the course of the athletic or other activities in which they engage.

On any day in her classroom, Ms. Orchard's students may be engaged in an imperialism role - play, arguing in defense of King Louis XVI during a mock trial, or creating an iMovie about Revolutionary battles.

But we find ourselves constantly playing defense and looking for these firewalls when we should be engaged in more productive efforts to advance student achievement.

Dignity in Schools Campaign members, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Partners for Each and Every Child launched the ESSA Engage for Equity campaign and pre-released its accompanying jointly developed Toolkit.

The Engage project of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was created to encourage interest and learning of young children in STEM areas.

DSC works with our federal partner the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. (LDF) to actively engage in activities designed to build the capacity of DSC members and allies to participate in ESSA implementation in their states.

As part of her defense, Moskowitz noted that the young man had allegedly engaged in incidents such as «throwing another student against the bathroom wall», «kicking, scratching, and punching a teacher», and «stabbing the walls with pencils».

The Defense Department and other Federal agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission, are also actively engaged in UAS integration and management efforts.

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