Sentences with phrase «in defense last»

Asked about their support for the Dominican Republic's policy of denationalization of its native - born population of Haitian descent, Charles Rangel and Adriano Espaillat each spoke in defense last night of what is arguably the worst offense against human rights in the Americas today.

The best defender for the Nuggets this past year was Gary Harris, although, the Nuggets didn't really have good defenders which was evident when they finished 29th in defense last season.

Manchester City and Guardiola suffered from the quality - over-quantity problem in defense last season, but now, with an 18 - point lead on second - place Manchester United, they have laid the blueprint for devising a system that maximizes attacking verve and defensive robustness.

Liverpool were weak in defense last term but lost by the smallest of margins.

I completely understand why teams with Carmelo Anthony and Kobe Bryant are getting TV hype over a team that doesn't have a big scoring star and led the league in defense last year.

Not exact matches

Bergdahl's defense team filed a last - minute motion on Oct. 23 to completely dismiss the case against him, citing past statements in which Trump had referred to the sergeant as «a no - good traitor who should have been executed» during his presidential campaign.

My dad was a bartender; my mother was a maid,» and a polished defense when erstwhile front - runner Jeb Bush criticized Marco Rubio in the last GOP presidential debate over his attendance record, helped nudge the Florida senator ahead of many of his rivals.

«During the Trump Administration, we will shift from playing defense at the FCC to going on offense,» Ajit Pai said in December last year, a month before president - elect Donald Trump appointed him as the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Two came on great reads by the Seahawks» defense (though one throw he probably should have held onto), and the last, as mentioned, came in an end - of - game, desperation situation.

Army Col. John Hope was the director of operations for the Pentagon's $ 800 million Afghanistan Task Force for Stability and Business Operations — which was designed to focus on economic redevelopment in US war zones — when he complained about a lack of financial accountability, and now says he has been «singled out for retaliation and retribution,» Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) said last week in a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

Transgender servicemembers have been able to serve openly in the military since last year, when former Defense Secretary Ash Carter ended the ban, declaring it the right thing to do.

I wonder whether he also told Trump that Japan's high - ranking officials from foreign, defense and other government agencies were conducting consultations in Sendai, Japan last Thursday and Friday with their Chinese counterparts on contested maritime borders in the South China Sea.

That comes close on the heels of a similar meeting in Shanghai last December, showing that a Sino - Japanese «strategic relationship of mutual benefit» may be heating up while Tokyo feels secure under the U.S. defense umbrella and enjoys full access to American markets.

Zzyym's lawsuit, filed last year by the LGBT rights legal firm Lambda Legal Defense Fund in federal court in Denver, argued that the policy of requiring either a male or female designation on passport applications violated due process and equal protection rights for intersex people.

President Donald Trump is coming to Arizona this week to bring his circus of hate after doubling down on his defense of the Neo-Nazis and white supremacists that wreaked havoc in Charlottesville, Va. last weekend.

«It is possible that the acquisition of COL is the first step in separating UTX into two entities: a Commercial Operation and a Defense and Aerospace Group,» Howard Rubel, equity analyst at Jefferies, said in a note last week as speculation about a deal being struck by the two companies increased.

Microsemi, which has grown in the last few years through a wave of acquisitions, has said it wants to expand further in aerospace and defense.

He might not have had the triple - doubles of Russell Westbrook or the defense of Kawhi Leonard, but anyone who watched basketball last year knew that if Harden was on the court it was in your best interest not to look away.

Their usually stout defense has been riddled with injuries and exposed in every facet of the game over the last three weeks.

The good news, according to Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall, is that a range of measures put in place over the last half - decade have made a positive impact on the Pentagon's buying power while trimming costs across a range of major defense programs.

If Syrian air defense units were ineffective in stopping U.S. cruise missiles, and most information now points to that outcome (actually, it looks like the Syrians fired their missiles after the last missile had hit), this represents a significant blow to the Assad regime and to Russia's ability to assist in an effective air defense in the region.

Last November John Borowski, CEO of Borjohn Optical Technology, a small defense contractor in Burlington, Mass., was sentenced to jail and heavily fined for «knowingly endangering others.»

Second, the electoral college got stuck in to provide a last line of defense against public stupidity — in case you didn't know it, the electors aren't legally bound to vote as their state's majority has.

The transformation afforded Mylan new protections under Dutch law, such as a takeover defense known as a stichting, which kicked in last week and likely played a role in pushing Teva away.

Last November, a federal appeals court in New York ruled that a similar program at the Defense Department for «small disadvantaged businesses» was unconstitutional.

Grindr later proceeded to publish a full statement, which included a defense that users are given the «option to post information about themselves including HIV status and last test date, and we make it clear in our privacy policy that if you choose to include this information in your profile, the information will also become public.»

Last month, Defense Secretary James Mattis put a hold on the president's transgender military ban, but the measure in the Senate still appears to have widespread support.

His defense appeared undermined by a video that surfaced last week in which he bragged about kissing and groping women without their permission.

As last week's HP (HPQ) quarterly analyst call unfolded like a bad dream, Whitman set the beleaguered board's defense in motion.

Some 235 gigabytes of military documents were taken from South Korea's Defense Integrated Data Center in September last year, Democratic Party representative Rhee Cheol - hee said in radio appearances on Wednesday, citing information from unnamed South Korean defense offDefense Integrated Data Center in September last year, Democratic Party representative Rhee Cheol - hee said in radio appearances on Wednesday, citing information from unnamed South Korean defense offdefense officials.

One of the examples he cited was the recently announced Digital Defense Service, a sort of Defense Department job shadowing project in which technology workers can team up with the government on projects that could last up to two years.

Protecting major transfers to persons, spending on health and education and other spending such as that for Aboriginal programs, research and development, and assuming you won't revisit defense and international assistance, then to find an additional $ 8 to $ 11 billion by 2015 - 16 would require major cuts in labor market programs, spending on the homeless, infrastructure programs, and last, but certainly not least, government personnel costs.

Last week, as news of the skeptical analyses spread in Israel, the Defense Ministry issued a statement deploring «baseless claims» that relied on «amateur YouTube videos.»

It can be your last line of defense in an economic crisis — a form of wealth insurance, if you will.

About 40 per cent of the increase over the last three years has been in the law and order departments (Correctional Services Canada and related agencies, Justice and the Canada Border Services Agencies) and defense civilian staff.

Late last year, a research firm called Defense Group Inc. argued in a report prepared for Congress that the Neurala investment could give China access to the company's underlying technologies.

His last public statement (on Facebook, of course) was a mixture of regret and defense, reading, in part, «I am deeply sorry that my actions are negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and its partners.

As the last witness for the defense in the Justice Department's legal battle against AT&T's $ 85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, Mr. Stephenson portrayed the 140 - year - old phone giant as being in an existential crisis and in need of the deal with Time Warner to compete against tech companies.

«What we've seen in the last two years is less defense from an» 08, ’09 standpoint.

Echoing then - Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's remarks last month, Goldfein said most view the January strike in Libya as a B - 2 strike, but forget that its journey and mission were supplemented by Air Force tankers, maintainer airmen and weapons loaders, among other «family of systems.»

What they didn't know, and I have never written about before, is that our last defense bidder had gone quiet just a month after our big competitor came roaring in to make us an offer.

The success of the Iron Dome rocket defense system in the fighting in southern Israel last week should end for once and for all discussions about whether it is worthwhile.

In the analysis that he undertook for Bar Ilan University's Begin - Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Rubin describes the last round of fighting in Gaza as «an absolutely formative event in Israel's active defense systeIn the analysis that he undertook for Bar Ilan University's Begin - Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Rubin describes the last round of fighting in Gaza as «an absolutely formative event in Israel's active defense systein Gaza as «an absolutely formative event in Israel's active defense systein Israel's active defense system.

Rates transitioning from «lower for longer» to higher at long last means it's time to rethink equity defense, as we write in our new Global equity outlook Building the right defense in equities.

It's led to especially collegial relations with Roman Catholics, with President Harrison writing a letter in June of last year thanking the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for their defense of religious freedom.

«Thou shall not kill» do not apply in the last resolve of self - defense, combats in war, and lawful executions.

Nic Sheff, an editor and writer for 13 Reasons Why, has defended the show's intensely graphic depiction of suicide: «Facing these issues head - on — talking about them, being open about them — will always be our best defense against losing another life,» he wrote in Vanity Fair last year.

♦ Richard Vigilante is writing in National Review about the changing forms of liberalism and conservatism, and the last line makes this one worth citing: «The future of conservatism seems to lie in a concern for the state not of the deficit, or of the defense budget, but of the culture.»

Last year, in a talk at a conference on Mormonism and Islam at Utah Valley University, I asked my Mormon listeners why they had not rushed to the defense of Muslims in controversies such as the one that raged over the Park51 project near ground zero.

If you are 55 or under and hope to enjoy some of those benefits you have been paying into from your paychecks for the last 30 years, of which the Government has borrowed 5 trillion dollars for other spending such as defense and tax breaks for the rich, which is why the current social security system is in jeopardy, then you will be voting for Obama.