Sentences with phrase «robust defence of»

She proceeded to deliver a robust defence of her home county against its detractors:

The culture secretary has used his speech to the Labour conference to launch a robust defence of the BBC, saying it is far superior to news in the US or Europe.

The prime minister has given a robust defence of his policy of overseas military intervention and warned the public they must be prepared for a long campaign to ensure Britain's security.

Ed Miliband has issued a robust defence of William Hague over the rumours surrounding his special advisor.

The Labour peer also issued a robust defence of the upper chamber's right to amend the legislation.

News of a backbench plot to force Theresa May to stand down has led to a robust defence of the prime minister from an old foe.

This is a defining moment for the Prime Minister, invoking ancient liberties to give a calm, eloquent and robust defence of freedom of speech.

The former chief executive of Barclays, who resigned yesterday morning amid rising political and public anger about the Libor scandal, is expected to offer a robust defence of his conduct when he faces MPs from 14:00 BST.

Justice Secretary Chris Grayling declared Oakwood prison a «first - class facility» as he issued a robust defence of the under - fire jail.

Similarly, her robust defence of HS2 is welcome.

A number of peers belonging to the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) gave a robust defence of the rights of those who do not hold to any religious beliefs during a debate in the House of Lords last night.

Some on the liberal - left might be alienated by any move towards a left - wing populism that takes a more critical stance towards the EU or immigration, but they might just hold their noses and take the plunge if it also meant a more robust defence of the NHS and serious moves to rebalance and democratise the economy.

Unlike some other Labour figures, Khan gives a robust defence of the policy.

An experienced supermarket lobbyist, having also headed up public affairs at Tesco, Hughes has put up robust defence of cheap alcohol sales in supermarkets.

What should have been a robust defence of their title win — and perhaps even the start of a new era of domestic domination under Jose Mourinho — quickly unraveled into the end of one managerial regime, as the Blues slumped to just four wins in their first 16 league games.

Whilst the Frenchman has struggled with injury this season he's looked typically composed whenever in the side but he will be up against the 20 goal forward who has already decimated the previously robust defence of Jose Mourinho's Chelsea.

I'm happy to see the robust defence of it and the eagerness to continue.

Michael John Galbraith enjoys a robust defence of the Johannine authorship of the fourth Gospel and the divinity of Christ; Michael Dolman is inspired by a beautiful and personal account of a saint, co-authored by her husband and James Preece on an introduction to the Bible which contains diamonds and mud.

Cardinal Caffarra of Bologna has recently forcefully said that Catholics deserve to be exposed to a robust defence of the Church's teaching on sexuality.

Not exact matches

God encourages this relationship to be robust and interactive involving qualities of comfort and challenge, initiative and response, question and answer, closeness and distance, lament and laughter, complaint and reassurance, defence and vulnerability, on both sides.

sad to say it but in the scheme of things a CL side has greater mastery and comprehension of what it takes to win than a europa league side — and until we replenish our team, until we consolidate our mid-field, until our defence is rebuilt into a something much more [robust].

In order to make themselves more robust in the defensive side of things, Barcelona may begin to deploy Marc - André ter Stegen in central defence.

Thanks to the training of his legal eagle colleagues, Murdoch had a robust defence that was very different from May's.

Any defence of free speech is robust and uncompromising or it is meaningless.

Today, he mounted a robust defence over what he called «outrageous» media criticism of his handling of the firm, pointing out that Arcadia had pumped some # 800m to try to turn BHS around, including several interest - free loans.

«Except for interests other than the ends of justice underlying the pending charge against Senator Hamma Misau, we hereby call on the prosecution to play its prosecutorial cards face up, as we shall gladly love to meet them in court to articulate our robust defence against the obviously spurious allegations against the distinguished senator.

Shadow business secretary, Alan Duncan, was typically robust in his defence of senior shadow ministers retaining outside interests:

The DAPR and the NASPRI previous fourth quarter study periods and media workshops have been a veritable platform where robust interaction and cross fertilization of ideas between Resource Persons, Journalists / Defence Correspondents and Military Information Managers across the theatres of military operations.

Andrew Mitchell had also concluded that, given the state of the media firestorm, he could not mount the robust defence needed to clear his name, while still chief whip.

Reform that makes it less easy to use the law as a tool of intimidation and that introduces a robust public interest defence will be of critical importance for the future open discussion of issues of scientific concern.

Here are some of their robust defences, as found in the Law Times article.

In fact, the courts and the defence bar have in the past been critical of the Crown for not having a robust system of «file ownership,» where the rights of the accused have been breached precisely because serious cases got passed from Crown to Crown in order to accommodate competing commitments.

Our lawyers have a wealth of experience with regards to complex and large scale investigations, both nationally and internationally, and are able to quickly process the information and identify the key issues for you in a clear and relevant way so that you can mount a pro-active and robust defence.

CSEC's position is its activities are authorized under s. 273.64 of the National Defence Act and further «guided by a robust framework of Ministerial Directives and operational policies.»

The Court of Appeal judges used their judgment on two preliminary issues (in particular, whether Dr Singh could use the defence of «fair comment») to mount a robust and somewhat lyrical defence (quoting Milton, amongst other things) of the right to scientific freedom of expression.

You will include the appropriate security analysis, defences and countermeasures at each phase of the software development lifecycle, to result in robust and reliable software.