Sentences with phrase «for coming to my defense»

Thank you again for coming to our defense.

Not exact matches

49ers cornerback Richard Sherman came to the defense of Reid during his introductory press conference with the team in March, arguing that Reid deserves a contract for playing like one of the top 10 safeties in the NFL.

Notwithstanding Kardashian West's affinity for mom - related controversy, devoted Kardashian disciples still came to her defense.

(Tom Brady, of the New England Patriots, is especially quick to switch from helmet to stocking cap when he comes off for the defense.)

Using the Plausible Deniability defense, they claimed that they weren't even in the loop when it came to paying AIG enough to turn around and pay Goldman Sachs and other arbitrageurs 100 cents on the dollar for securities worth about a fifth as much.

The concerted attack on Lotte came after the conglomerate agreed to relinquish a golf course in southern Korea for the deployment of a Terminal High - Altitude Area Defense battery from the U.S.

The past few weeks have seen a new federal budget agreed to in the USA, with the figure for «defense» spending coming in at the highest level ever: $ 700 billion US Dollars.

Netflix's «poison pill» defense, which would make it much more difficult for Icahn — or anyone else — to mount a hostile takeover, comes as the streaming pioneer struggles to regain traction amid intense competition in the online - video space.

After the allegations surfaced, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R - UT), whom Porter worked for, came to Porter's defense, vouching for his character and saying he shouldn't resign — although they both backed off somewhat days later.

«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.»

It might well be that my response could be termed a defense» part of the syndrome of loyalties and disloyalties that one comes to take on from bearing that appellation for more than thirty - two years.

Ask yourself, if Romney was Jewish, Catholic, gay, female, Latino (or whatever) and people spewed the type of vitriol for those groups that is present on this blog, would others come to their defense?

But an early frontrunner for the worst defense has come from Alabama state auditor Jim Ziegler, who is using the Bible to defend the indefensible.

It was said that «the best of defense is to attack»... --- Those allowed such to be signed knew all the time that this is what was going to happen because it happened repeatedly through out history from time of the crusaders but still they continued with signing it because it meant for them money pouring in for all involved with the trading on this issue which has spoiled the life of the Palestinians and all Arabs ever started war over those lands started with swords and horses that has developed into the present arms that we became to know and only God knows how future arms would look like in few de-ca-des or cen - tur - ies that are yet to come...?!

2) It's a picture of what we would do when God's ultimate representative would come (what we deserve) & what he would do for us... Jesus was the greater Elisha, who was taken outside the city, wrongly mocked — and yet no one came to his defense.

Just when you were starting to get used to no bitter fighting, mudslinging or hand - wringing from the White House, here comes the new nominee for Secretary of Defense.

For example, we might notice that they spend a lot of time together, they are constantly helping each other in various ways, and they come to each other's defense when the other is threatened in some way.

Insofar as the need for defense provides just cause for public use of the sword, it comes from the responsibility of government to protect order, justice, and peace, not simply from the right to respond to an attacker in kind.

Allegedly, the cop verbally attacked a fellow student of Christian's for walking on his lawn and Christian came to her defense.

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).

I proposed that much of what we say and do these days comes from a place of feeling frightened and defensive for a Jesus who is not afraid and does not need our defense; that this is a time to stand with Jesus rather than to stand up for Him.

The impetus for innovating the wire - telegraph came from national defense establishments concerned to use control of knowledge to preserve and extend their power, and its subsequent history conforms to the pattern of other communications media in this regard.

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.

There is no question, then, that my mind has changed as I have tried to come to terms with the theologies for which I am prepared to offer such a defense — whether black theologies or women's theologies or the theologies emerging from Latin America and other sectors of the Third World.

The result is that religion becomes a defense against God or, at least, a defense against a deeply intimate experince of God that challenges us to become what we are — image bears of God, called to become sacraments of Divine Love in this world, not just waiting for God to «come down» and do the transforming work FOR us instead of THROUGH for God to «come down» and do the transforming work FOR us instead of THROUGH FOR us instead of THROUGH us.

What matters is that Jesus comes to her defense and turns the tables on her accusers — they are equally guilty of adultry, either in their lust for her naked vulnerability or in their perversion of the law, using the law, in their attempt to trap Jesus, for injustice.

What matters is that Jesus comes to her defense and turns the tables on her accusers — they are equally guilty of adultery, either in their lust for her naked vulnerability or in their perversion of the law — in their attempt to trap Jesus, they use the law for injustice.

Instead of detailing his many and manifold sins, he launched into a reprise of his argument against birth control coverage in U.S. health plans, and criticized President Obama along the way for coming to Fluke's defense.

For this reason what happens to and with human beings makes the difference as to whether they are under the dominion of some demon or the dominion of God, who cares about human life and has, in Jesus Christ, demonstrated a willingness to come to its defense.

A paraclete is the one who comes to your defense, your rescue, your comfort, and Jesus has done that for his disciples.

Then, this wrath that came upon Israel and compelled them to go home could not have emanated from the Moabite god, for he was broken and overwhelmed: he had been doing his best, apparently, in defense of his people, yet the Hebrew warriors continued victorious.

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.»

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?]

Came within a two - point conversion of going to overtime with Texas A&M in that 59 - 57 loss, and sadly can not have Johnny Manziel play defense for them, either.

as for me ozil is a talented and skilful player but having only that is not enough to win the ever getting stronger premier leage teams, he has to train hard for endurance and be a fighter, he has to come back and press on the opponent defense and even midfieldes to disposes the ball when arsenal loose the ball and go back fast attacking like iwobi and welbeck are doing.

I said some time ago that his coming deep to play causes problems for the opposition's defense.

Davis will need to come up with something equally inspired for the Horns to get past the Tide's second - ranked defense.

They can come at you from anywhere on the court and teams have to be ready for both a strong offense and defense from them.»

They'll figure out their rotations and that will allow for focus on Defense to come through more.

In this do or die stage it's going to come down to Defense and taking care of the ball for these two squads.

The offense will have to step up again and the defense will have to play big in one of the most anticipated games coming up on Sunday afternoon as # 1 Team McNichols hosts # 2 Team Hanessian in a clash of titans that will ultimately determine once and for all who our clear # 1 should be!

Not only has Jourdan Lewis come to the defense of the No. 1 RB recruit, but Jim Harbaugh dropped a message for fans tweeting recruits over Twitter.

You know what you are going to get from these guys each and every week — gritty defense, hustle plays all over the place, 25 + points from Jabarri «maybe the best scorer in the League» Reynolds and 15 - 20 points from Evan «one of the best 2nd options in the League» Zahniser... The difference between Ws and Ls for these guys usually come down to a few missed / made jump shots between them and their opponents.

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.

It's what most of us were asking for coming into the season, just an average defense to pair with an explosive offense... looks like we got half our wish, and that just might be enough for a good playoff run.»

Up next for the Lions are the Atlanta Falcons, who boast the NFL's fourth - ranked defense when it comes to points allowed (18.5).

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.

After Brandon Browner and others came to the defense of Butler, Butler posted a statement on his Twitter and Instagram thanking Robert Kraft and the Patriots» coaches for his four years in New England:

Shrewd old Clark Shaughnessy, who coaches the defense for the Chicago Bears, came up with a bewildering variety of defensive maneuvers to plug the barrels of the new San Francisco offense

I don't blame Sutton for all the problems on the defense, and i understand it was hard to get creative with the talent we had last year, but Sutton isn't good at coming up with something new.