Sentences with phrase «long defense of»

However, as Mac points out at Climate Audit, he is enmeshed in a decade - long defense of his friend and colleague Michael Mann, and can not be expected to provide an objective viewpoint.

I see that in your long defense of Gleick's behavior you fail to mention the inconvenient truth that the key strategy document was a fake and did not originate at Heartland.

Most of this book is one long defense of this view.

Not exact matches

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

Thanks to its long history of working with the Department of Defense, AeroVironment has already logged an estimated 1 million miles of flights to date.

The new reporting requirements come after a year - long Senate investigation ending in May 2013 that found defense contractors who transported troops and supplies were the target of numerous cyberattacks.

In my defense, I was only 19, so not a grownup, and said boyfriend came out of the closet not long after, so it was not really a satisfying and healthy relationship.»

«If you were a hedge fund or private equity fund and you said, «Well, all I want my AI to do is maximize the value of my portfolio,»» Musk said in the documentary, «then the AI could decide, the best way to do that is to short consumer stocks, go long defense stocks, and start a war.»

BRUSSELS — The European Union on Wednesday launched the long and politically fraught process of drawing up its new long - term spending plans, seeking a bigger budget to finance new priorities like defense and border control and plug the gap left by Britain's departure.

On Saturday the world enjoyed the long anticipated March for Science, which transformed Earth Day into a global defense of STEM, led by quietly spirited people undaunted by weather, buoyed by conviction, and waving an unlimited supply of wry, funny signs.

The first line of defense is also no longer the individual, as it once was.

As a first line of defense from hackers, users should always be protecting themselves by using long, uniquely generated passwords.

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.

She talked to his parents, neighbors, and old school teachers, people who had known him long before the Beltway shootings, reconstructing a history of abandonment and neglect that would form a cornerstone of his defense.

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.

Many receive benefits provided under Medicaid, including the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as Aged, Blind or Disabled (ABD), Foster Care and Long - Term Services and Supports (LTSS), in addition to other state - sponsored programs, Medicare (including the Medicare prescription drug benefit commonly known as «Part D»), dual eligible programs and programs with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

She served for 15 years along with Hillary Clinton on the board of the Children's Defense Fund and was the longest - serving HHS secretary under Bill Clinton.

But Bosworth's defense of the old memo is the latest in a long line of trust - breakers from Facebook.

Hectoring your long - term allies in Europe and East Asia to pony up more money for common defense may, under the best circumstances, shave a small amount off the Pentagon's budget, but at the expense of long - term trust.

Vocal critics of oilsands development such as the Natural Resources Defense Council have long been arguing that Washington isn't collecting the money that would serve to clean up a bitumen spill.

The Galeville Military Airport was decommissioned in 1994 when the US Department of Defense decided that the site was no longer needed.

Every defense of current P / E ratios must assume either a higher long - term growth rate than is evident from historical data, or it must assume that investors are willing to hold stocks for a long - term return of substantially less than 10 %.

The main event of the day - long series of meetings was «Energy for Defense II» at the TCF Bank Stadium on the University of Minnesota campus — a Defense Alliance information and networking event that attracted 165 individuals representing industry, academia and government.

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Many receive benefits provided under Medicaid, including the State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as Aged, Blind or Disabled (ABD), Foster Care and Long - Term Services (LTSS), in addition to other state - sponsored programs, Medicare (including the Medicare prescription drug benefit commonly known as «Part D»), dual eligible programs and programs with the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bell's entrepreneurship and industry leadership, combined with his long - held championship of this region's ability to provide innovation to our nation's Warriors, exemplify the values of the Defense Alliance and its membership, which now comprises over 700 corporate members in 27 states.

For as long as The Defense Alliance of Minnesota continues to offer services, The Defense Alliance of Minnesota shall provide (and seek to update, improve and expand, in similar and different new ways) The Defense Alliance of Minnesota's platform and service with the purpose of providing all members with professional networking connectivity, through proprietary tools, rules and protocols which The Defense Alliance of Minnesota may update, improve, discontinue and change at any time, at The Defense Alliance of Minnesota's sole discretion.

Aside from acceptable «basis» risk between the stocks we hold long and the indices we use to hedge, and perhaps 1 % of assets in option time - premium at any given time as a result of staggering our strikes to provide a stronger defense, we don't consider various speculative bubbles as threats to our own returns.

It consequently seems unlikely that «the decades - long debate in Israel between proponents and critics of missile defense has now been laid to rest» (Rubin 2015, 32).

This long - term point of view leads to another big defense of dual - class share structures.

The rising long - term trendline is just above the strong support zone near 2520 while the 2450 level is the first line of defense for bulls here.

Senior defense sources asserted in the past two days that the launching of long - range rockets at the outskirts of Haifa should not have been a surprise to Israeli intelligence.

The spokesperson for the National Rifle Association has long used the logic of motherhood in her defense of guns.

At his sentencing today, Scott Roeder - the man who killed Kansas abortion provider George Tiller last year - gave a long, scriptural - laden defense of the slaying, arguing that he was protecting unborn children and obeying a higher law by killing the doctor.

In late February the Obama administration announced that it will no longer uphold the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

As Jason Langley, an attorney with Denver - based Kennedy Childs, argued in one of the briefs he filed for the defense, the court «should not overturn the long - standing rule in Colorado that the term «person,» as is used in the Wrongful Death Act, encompasses only individuals born alive.

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

So long as the right tries to defend them without offering a broader ecology of a deeply integrated and formative community — something broader, for example, than the long - standing defense of «family values» that denigrates the idea that there is a relationship between the family and the village — it can offer no real alternative to liberalism.

Her best - selling 1964 book, A Choice, Not an Echo, pushing the presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater, resulted in the debacle of Goldwater's landslide loss, but the long - term result was the mobilization of large numbers of people, mostly in the Midwest and South and many of them women, who were appalled at the moral havoc that the 1960s had wrought and also, as time passed, at what they perceived as America's growing defense weakness under Jimmy Carter.

Some French Catholics saw Hitler as a bulwark against atheist Bolshevism: The last line of defense as the Red Army advanced on the bunker beneath the Chancellery in Berlin was manned by Frenchmen from the Charlemagne Division of the Waffen SS, who rose from their trenches to meet the Russian tanks with the cry of «Long live Christ the King!»

Most important to me was Freud — not his diagnosis of religious belief as an infantile longing but his list of defense mechanisms (sublimation, projection, reaction formation among them).

I long to Love, I long to offer grace, particularly to those struggling under their own new Laws, I long to worship, I'd rather write a better story than a point - by - point defense, and I long to really see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Those who are surprised that this position is presented as a defense of democracy have perhaps not been paying close attention to the judiciary's now long - standing repeal of the principle, «government by the consent of the governed.»

What conservatives and libertarians are most animated about nowadays is the abuse of public - good authority, particularly as such authority has been misused for a very long time to tax and spend, not generally on public goods like defense but on wealth - transfer programs, such as social security, Medicare and Medicaid, and other entitlements — the kinds of programs, in other words, that have effectively bankrupted Greece, are threatening to bankrupt several other European nations, and are undermining the European Monetary Union.

So I'd rather write a better and real story than a point - by - point defense, and I long to really see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Theologians in the «60s, discovering that the biblicism and antiscientism of their Barthian forebears would no longer serve as a defense against secular attacks, cast: about for a preserve of true religious experience that could not be explained away as just one of many parochial perspectives on the universe.

The craftsmanship of the Long Beach naval shipyards has fallen victim to defense budget cuts.

It didn't take long for Israel's own Ministry of Defense to respond — on Twitter, of course.

The strengthening of the Western flank of NATO was for a long time blocked by Germany and other EU countries, which wanted relations with Russia and knew that the Russians did not want a stronger defense system in Eastern Europe.

There may have been so many shocks and disappointments that the defense of humor no longer works.