Sentences with phrase «fierce defense of»

It is wrenching to see the son's fierce defense of his father — in a tiny room crowded with academic egos — and wonder not only whether he'll ever receive anything back, but whether he'll be able to do better with his own son.

It is wrenching to see the son's fierce defense of his father — in a

The Fat Lip, hosted by Ash, «is a podcast for and about fat people... We are proud supporters of radical self - love and the fierce defense of your body autonomy.»

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a former NYPD officer, offered a fierce defense of de Blasio's policing policies and his invocation of his son Dante, saying: «I did not elect the PBA.

Further complicating her feminist vision was Elshtain's fierce defense of women's work in the domestic sphere.

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.

So is the fierce defense of the backup position, that inequality doesn't matter - or maybe even that, to use Martha Stewart's signature phrase, it's a good thing.

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Porat, known inside Alphabet for her fierce attention to controlling costs, doesn't flinch in her defense of the company's touchy - feely legacy.

I find that people who are fiercest in their defense of «church» are often those who simply can not handle the idea that (1) their church can do any wrong, and (2) they themselves were wrong in their belief that the church can do no wrong.

One can not finish this well «written and pleasantly accessible defense of Hellenic civilization without wondering if the fierce resentment against Attic superiority (and Thornton quotes a great deal of such resentful scholarship in the early chapters) does not conceal a closet nihilism» a hostility to the light of Being first honored and brought to expression by the Greek philosophers.

Balentine concludes with a defense of Job — and God: «The lesson for Job seems to be that those who dare to stand before their maker with exceptional strength, proud prerogatives, and fierce trust come as near to realizing God's primordial design for life in this world as it is humanly possible to do.»

With the Jets reputation of having a fierce defense, this trade obviously had a major effect on the over / under betting line.

I was fierce in my defense of Giroud when people were calling him useless, Muppet, etc..

I do think we are good at the back apart from LB, they can be a fierce defense with good CM ahead of them and this is a team sport.

Oklahoma State, which plays a fierce man - to - man defense, now faces Temple in one of the tournament's most intriguing matchups.

The letter's signers included the Empire State Pride Agenda, Lambda Legal, the New York City Anti-Violence Project, the LGBT Community Center and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center, the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, Gay Men's Health Crisis, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, Immigration Equality, the Family Equality Council, SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders), the GRIOT Circle: a gathering of elders, and several organizations advocating on behalf of LGBT young people, including FIERCE, the Hetrick - Martin Institute, and Streetwise and Safe.

The rest of the cast is magnificent, and also expansive: Bob Odenkirk as Ben Bagdikian, the lead reporter on the story; Carrie Coon as Meg Greenfield and David Cross as Howard Simons, other top scribes; Bruce Greenwood as Bob McNamara, former Defense Secretary and personal friend of Graham; Tracy Letts as Fritz Beebe, Graham's right - hand man and rock; Bradley Whitford as the (overly) timid voice of caution; Matthew Rhys as Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the papers; Jesse Plemons as the young lawyer brought into defend the Post; and Michael Stuhlbarg as Abe Rosenthal, fierce competitor at the Times, and another Graham friend.

Shanker thought of himself as a liberal, indeed a Socialist; but for many liberals he seemed a racist conservative, as he maintained his fierce anti-Communist stance, supported American military power in defense of democracy, and insisted on the primacy of the trade - union movement in making a better society.