As The Jackhammer rattled my cage with uppercuts and hooks to the temple, I defended myself, but only made a nominal effort to punch back. |
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Casilinum was defended by a garrison of two thousand Campanians, and seven hundred of Hannibal's soldiers. |
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He defended his beliefs with vigour, but in the end was overwhelmed by the flood of insult and calumny to which he was subjected. |
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After all, he scored the first goal, made the third and defended like a demon for the two periods of extra-time. |
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The group's main political activity was squatting in unoccupied houses, which they subsequently defended in street battles with police. |
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I never said I was no-platformed and I defended her right to not share a platform with me. |
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He defended management-employee buyouts, which became controversial after being used to drain privatised companies. |
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The fictional Zorro may have defended himself with a long whip, but a bullwhip was not designed as a weapon. |
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Not only the existence of corruption is denied but corrupt politicians and bureaucrats are vigorously defended. |
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This week he defended their record which had seen the club put on a sound financial footing. |
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Petko was popular among ethnic Bulgarians, Turks and Greeks because he defended the rights of all poor among them. |
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We did speak with one of his next-door neighbours who claims to be a family friend as well who kind of defended the doctors. |
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David defended himself, hearing the pathetic tone himself, now that he was beginning to sober up. |
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However, animal trainers defended the role of the sniffer dog and said a machine would never be able to take over completely. |
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Naqib defended the bodyguards who shot at them, saying they were just doing their job. |
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In relation to her salary, he blew a fuse, defended his staff member, and told me he would not allow my opinion to impugn her. |
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She stayed by my side, and defended me when someone decided to say something negative to me. |
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The hugely controversial contiguous cull of livestock to combat the foot-and-mouth epidemic was stoutly defended by the Government. |
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Nonetheless, most models of the Trinity that have been proposed and defended have leaned in modalist or tritheistic directions. |
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One of those who might have defended his appointment did not show at the conference. |
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In humanitarian terms it can be defended, though it often appears callous and short-sighted. |
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As tribune in 49 he defended Caesar's interest in the Senate as civil war loomed. |
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In other ways they differed from the Minoans in being more warlike, having defended settlements, and a strong emphasis on weapons as grave goods. |
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Patrick whipped out his new shield and the shield defended against the blow. |
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The mimics, however, have hotly defended their artistic freedom to lampoon anyone, however big. |
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These analyses will be elaborated below and subsequently defended against various alternative analyses. |
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It was also used by the Romans when they used what was known as a tortoise formation to move forward to a target that was well defended. |
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The tortellini and cannelloni were both defended by a thick coating of mozzarella, which I had barely breached before I had to call it a day. |
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Many times in school, kids had tormented her because of the sheltered upbringing, and she always proudly defended it as necessary. |
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Some philosophers have defended the view that animals are not sentient and attempted to use a component conditional for modus tollens. |
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The Lampades defended Hekate with their torches just as the Titaness herself fought in the wars of the gods. |
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The governing class, defended as a meritocracy, resembles nothing more than the Chinese mandarinate. |
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Albion, to their credit, defended tigerishly for a side who had shipped six against Liverpool the week before. |
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On the eastern flank of the Sword beachhead, Lieutenant Colonel Otway's paratroopers are dug in outside Amfreville which is heavily defended. |
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Morgan defended with organisation and commitment, and when they had the ball they racked up the points. |
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In an unprecedented statement to the construction industry journal, Building Magazine, Bovis defended itself against a barrage of criticism. |
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However they might differ on other issues, all the reformers vigorously defended the honourable estate of matrimony. |
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A few miles up the track lies Mt Austen, where the Japanese defended their most important command post with suicidal banzai counter-attacks. |
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He defended the title another three times, stopping his opponents on each occasion, to put himself in line for the WBA world belt. |
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However, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was also under pressure from Slav nationalists, who demanded that their fellow Slavs in Serbia be defended. |
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Because most medieval physicians defended scholasticism, he was not a friend of the medical profession. |
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Both groups defended the decision to grant permission, both arguing that the view of the turbines from scenic routes would be limited. |
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The Slavs defended the north-western border to the Carpathians against frequent attacks by the Avar tribes. |
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One enters the court of arms through a door with a pointed arch defended by a machicolated gallery above. |
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Kerekes defended himself against accusations that he was representing violent, sexual murder in a salacious, titillating and insensitive manner. |
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After the war he defended what he did by writing the following article to explain his strategy and tactics. |
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He defended his claims that the FDA is not protecting our health and safety. |
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And most are defended not by private attorneys but by public defenders or appointed lawyers. |
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The Yarnbury backs defended well and continued to hold the attackers at bay. |
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Lt Gen. Campbell defended the strict media protocol as well concerns within the military about the politicisation of his role. |
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They defended superbly, attacked courageously and played the most astute tactical game. |
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A state assemblywoman has defended it, saying the plan is a way to reduce the federal deficit. |
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He believed the saga had run on because his rival had not spoken out, but then defended Mr Cameron's right to remain silent. |
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Civic centre buildings have been locked up as a result of the strike and are defended by the paramilitary police against protesters. |
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Attacks are defended with blocks, various kicks, punches and strikes, throws, and wrist and arm locks. |
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For the next fortnight the Japanese mounted attacks on the string of defended localities running along the road. |
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For decades, trucking company lobbies defended complex federal regulations that set hauling prices and routes and limited competition. |
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They became largely Romanized and for hundreds of years their legions bravely defended the empire. |
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He defended the role of his reader's editor, who acts as an independent arbitrator of reader complaints. |
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And finally, in the last extant part of the apocryphal Gospel of Mary, Mary is defended by the disciple Levi, presumably the son of Alphaeus. |
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Shiites highlighted the Arab roots of Shiism and defended Shiite poets of the Abbasid period whom Sunni writers depicted as shuubis. |
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He also reviewed the 1717 book and defended a doctrine of libertarian free will as he had in the earlier correspondence. |
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How could he be defended in the pages of our press by supposed liberals and left-wingers? |
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The people who defended segregation are the same folks who are homophobes today. |
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He has staunchly defended his plan against a torrent of criticism by touting the new anti-fraud technology he said would improve security. |
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The directors defended the retrenchment of two expatriate general managers. |
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The union successfully defended a challenge to its legality by Wandsworth Council in the High Court. |
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Maitan has also defended the majority around Bertinotti from criticisms made by the party's left wing. |
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Jurisdiction and the reservation of absolution of particularly serious sins for pedagogical reasons are defended later. |
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Kentrosaurus defended itself against attack by flesh-eaters like the allosaurus, by lashing out with its thick strong tail. |
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She also defended the cost, and insisted she kept a tight rein on spending. |
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Hughes defended his reign, despite criticism of his record of failing to win nine successive competitive matches. |
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The Welshman defended his WBO belt with an effective, if unspectacular, display against his gutsy Kosovan opponent. |
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Smaller herbivorous dinosaurs, however, may have fed to a greater extent than their larger kin on plants defended by qualitative toxins. |
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By 1938 he was an air vice-marshal commanding No. 12 Fighter Group which, during the battle of Britain, defended the Midlands. |
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He scored, rebounded, defended and played some inspired basketball from the center position. |
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But they battled with a will and defended sensibly to deny them a clear-cut opportunity. |
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The former Met assistant commissioner defended police use of the 'kettle' last week. |
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There is no doubt that these missions were exciting for there were few things more well defended than a Luftwaffe aerodrome. |
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They gifted two killer tries, defended their line badly and failed to execute whenever they got into a good position. |
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The former House majority leader's carefully constructed and fiercely defended redoubt of power seems about to go kablooey. |
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The Germans had decided to make Warsaw a fortress city which would be defended at all costs in an effort to stem the advance of the Red Army. |
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This narrow headland was defended as a cliff castle with three stone ramparts across its neck. |
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The massively arched door, in the style of a portcullis, is defended on either side by rampant lions, petrified in mid-snarl. |
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In more recent times the Jesuit Vasquez, and the Lutheran divines G. Calixtus and Walch, have defended the Adoptionists as essentially orthodox. |
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And profits were defended by courts, so they were not subject to the larcenous whims of the local sheikh or rajah. |
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The entrance through the outer ramparts was joined to the inner gateway by an ingeniously defended approach. |
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He once defended himself against an accusation of racism by saying that black people were good at sport. |
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No invasion against beaches defended with modern weapons had ever been tried before. |
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A staunch Federalist, Lee defended the Constitution at the 1788 Virginia ratifying convention. |
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In 200 escort missions to heavily defended targets, the Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber to an enemy fighter. |
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Although the Lapith women do not seek husbands, they are assaulted by the Centaurs at a wedding and are defended by the heroic, athletic Lapiths, overseen by the god Apollo. |
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At a press conference today with Scalise, Speaker Boehner again defended him. |
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The country he had so ardently defended and the city of Benghazi, which he had helped to save and he so loved, proved his undoing. |
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The blogger defended his piece Friday in a series of tweets to outraged readers, including writer Elon Green. |
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Rios Montt staunchly defended his actions against what he termed a deadly enemy, and bristled at the suggestion of genocide. |
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Jack Lundie, Director of Communications for the British charity Oxfam, defended the single to the Daily Beast. |
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Jon defended me gallantly, earning him a little tick in my good books. |
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The winner between Zambia and Sudan after the two games will qualify to the second round to face either Egypt or Eritrea in the competition being defended by the Gambia. |
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Alfonso Signorini, editor of chi magazine, has defended his decision to print the images. |
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Inzamam's experience and class came through as he defended watchfully, ran sparingly, and made the loose balls count with crunching drives off the back foot. |
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The Prime Minister also defended the military campaign at question time. |
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He cleverly defended fundraising efforts on behalf of the Greek military in Britain as a matter of free enterprise. |
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However, the poet faithfully defended his livelihood, insisting that engraving was a true art. |
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The majority of the hillforts of Southern France are defended by walls or ramparts and ditches encircling hilltops which overlook important commercial or military routes. |
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He also defended the actions of the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with regards to the case. |
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Informers kept the NKVD secret police abreast of what those who defended him said in private conversation. |
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He believed in atomism and defended a mechanistic explanation of nature. |
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Before World War II the Marine Corps developed a doctrine of amphibious operations that employed a quick, sharp, unexpected assault against a defended coastline. |
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In the Vanity Fair piece, Lawrence defended her celebrity status and said that that did not entitle people to her body. |
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From its runway, a conglomerate of Marine, navy, and army squadrons defended the local air space, eventually permitting resupply and reinforcement. |
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In 1853, Charcot successfully defended his doctoral thesis, presenting original work to differentiate the symptoms of gout from chronic rheumatism. |
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In her own response to the statement posted on the Yale website, Sister Farley defended her work. |
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Do you really think that the brave old blokes from the 28th Maori Battalion who defended Crete would appreciate people this like rocking up to a dawn service? |
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Police have defended a decision to launch a crackdown on litterbugs in Bradford after it was revealed they handed out just six on-the-spot fines in a fortnight. |
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For 20 years, she has eloquently and ardently defended civil liberties. |
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But as is her way, Kaling defended why the episode was not only funny, but necessary. |
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Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. |
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But the most important lesson to be gleaned from this episode is that Rand Paul defended Hunter to the end. |
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Spokesmen who have defended the bombing have said that the civilian casualties are a regrettable but unavoidable side-effect of the attacks on military targets. |
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Unfortunately, male chauvinism has found support in ideas expressed by some theologians who have defended the inferior role of women with arguments for their inferior nature. |
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One attendee, an attractive woman in her 20s, passionately defended the soiree as a way for certain people to connect with Occupy. |
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Both the women and the foreman defended this practice because they said the work was heavier and therefore it was more manly work and should pay more. |
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Once revealed, these statesmen shockingly defended the move as part of their effort to streamline government. |
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Males of many species of hummingbird are territorial and the territories, which are usually centered around a food source, are aggressively defended by their owners. |
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Du Bois repeatedly defended liberal education against those who saw it as impractical. |
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In an interview this week, Egeland strongly defended the propriety of delivering aid to unwholesome parts of northern Syria. |
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This guy defended his actions with these extremely lame statements that show how clueless he really is to how cruel and barbaric his actions were. |
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But Netanyahu defended the comments and said he had no intention of interfering in American politics. |
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But in July he joined the army backed government as the interim labor minister and has defended the breaking of the Suez strikes. |
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They defended each other against any accusation and began to walk to and from training together, forming little clusters of matey conspiracy between them. |
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He defended free trade as necessary to the division of labor. |
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Attacked and defended by a thousand politicians and pamphleteers, it has held the field as the only theory which provides an intelligible, self-consistent, workable system. |
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The unit specialized in conducting assaults against heavily defended coastal beachheads or reaching targets that were only accessible through difficult and rugged terrain. |
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Rangers needed at least the point, and defended tigerishly to prevent a goal as Tarbert also sought the point to give them the point they required. |
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We had defended really well but my sending-off probably cost us the game. |
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Before the arrests, the Italian navy had defended the men, lauding them for warding off pirates and protecting the Italian vessel. |
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Back then, Taranto defended the post-truth methods of the late Andrew Breitbart's journalism. |
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Military men defended the repression as key to thwarting the communist threat. |
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They met last winter during the revolution in Kiev and for months defended the maidan square from police. |
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Meghan McCain defended her dad, saying the immigration issue was so volatile there had been protests outside the family home. |
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The deputy mayor defended his government from accusations that it did not do more to prepare its people for typhoon Haiyan. |
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Murray defended herself at a press conference, saying that multitasking is something every mom knows how to do. |
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He implemented the program, oversaw it, and defended it, to say nothing of the secret prisons, which he also directed. |
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The United States defended its right to naturalize foreigners and rejected Britain's claim that it could legitimately practice impressment on the high seas. |
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This came on the same day the agency defended the pat-down of a crying four-year-old in the Kansas airport. |
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Fingleton has defended the lack of prosecutions and intimates the softly-softly approach will continue apace with the advocacy of regulatory reform. |
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It should have made for a tense and nervy finish but the goal provided the wake-up call as City switched back on the concentration button and defended resolutely thereafter. |
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They lectured on the tenets of the Newtonian system and valiantly defended contentious issues of Newtonian natural philosophy against attacks from critics. |
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By the 10th century, Hamwic had been largely abandoned in favour of a site a short distance to the south-west, where a defended settlement was established. |
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In the fourteenth book he defended the emotions as good constituents of human nature by the creator's intention, and attacked the Stoic notion that emotion must be suppressed. |
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Five armies in those spaces can be defended by up to seven units placed directly to the north of that line, yet only five units can attack from the south. |
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Easily supplied and defended by sea, the factories worked as independent colonial bases. |
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This made Seville the best defended port to bring the riches from the Americas. |
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On more than one occasion this mission army, accompanied by their priests, defended the Spanish colony. |
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Also there were people who defended the human rights and freedoms of oppressed peoples. |
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Meanwhile, Kylie has defended her new video Sexercise, which sees her in a girlon-girl clinch and gyrating on an exercise ball. |
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What's more, West Auckland successfully defended the title the following year. |
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A TEACHER described as a shawarma shop worker by an MP during Tuesday's session has been defended by the Education Ministry. |
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Thus SDYC successfully defended the cup in what observers described as the most controversial cup match to that point. |
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For the first time since its inception the America's Cup was defended outside of the US off the coast of Fremantle. |
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He successfully defended his crown in 1974 in what would be the last world championship for the legendary Italian marque. |
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Of those who have won the championship with Williams, only Jones, Rosberg and Villeneuve actually defended their title while still with the team. |
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When rival Mike Hawthorn was threatened with a penalty after the Portuguese Grand Prix, Moss defended him. |
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He successfully defended his EBU title against Ismail Abdoul in a lopsided 12 round decision. |
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The Taliban proudly defended their assault, with verses from the Quran. |
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Benn successfully defended his title twice more in 1994 with unanimous decisions against fellow Briton Henry Wharton and Juan Carlos Giminez. |
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He defended aggressively from the baseline and hit some exquisite winners and passing shots. |
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We defended resolutely but we didn't play well and then conceded a softish penalty, which happens. |
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We defended superbly with some great headers and blocks and to have conceded three goals is just gobsmacking really. |
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The Post's ombudsman rightly defended his paper's judgement. |
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But he defended their decision to keep the python, which they nicknamed Hisser, in the family home. |
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Along with Waugh, selector and former batsman David Boon defended their selections. |
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In A Modest Proposal and the Drapier Letters, Swift reluctantly defended the Irish people from the predations of colonialism. |
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I would now like to focus on how we defended the potent Wing-T Speed Sweep and Speed Trap as run both strong and weak. |
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However, they were unable to find an equaliser as Guadeloupe defended well. |
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Boudica's army fell on the poorly defended city and destroyed it, besieging the last defenders in the temple for two days before it fell. |
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The result was that in early August the main German drive east halted, while Guderian and Hoth shored up their flanks and defended their gains. |
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The Romans had previously defended Cartimandua against him, but this time were unable to do so. |
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In 1836, in a pamphlet titled Sunday Under Three Heads, he defended the people's right to pleasure, opposing a plan to prohibit games on Sundays. |
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Suetonius Paulinus rode to London, the rebels' next target, but concluded it could not be defended. |
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A fierce pamphlet war also resulted, in which Paine was defended and assailed in dozens of works. |
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Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday defended moves to toughen up Britain's anti-terrorism regime. |
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The Silures of southeast Wales caused considerable problems to Ostorius and fiercely defended the Welsh border country. |
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Ophelia has also been defended by feminist critics, most notably Elaine Showalter. |
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Hours before his climb down, the premier's own cabinet ministers had vigorously defended the curriculum. |
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During the Gordon Riots in 1780 a detachment of the Foot Guards successfully defended the Bank of England from a violent mob. |
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Categorical imperatives do not typically contain an 'if. They tell you what to do unconditionally. They may nevertheless be defended by reasons. |
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It was more efficient to starve the garrison out than to assault it, particularly for the most heavily defended sites. |
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Edward I defended his treasurer, and banished his son and his companions from his court, cutting off their financial support. |
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Mametz Wood was defended by elements of the German Lehr Infantry Regiment and 163rd Infantry Regiment. |
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On 3 November 2007 Maccarinelli successfully defended his WBO cruiserweight title against Mohamed Azzaoui winning by TKO in the 4th Round. |
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The next month he defended his title against Harry Carroll in Cardiff forcing him to retire after six rounds. |
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In January 1963, he defended his British title for the third time, defeating Johnny Morrisey by a technical knockout in the eleventh, in Glasgow. |
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One month later he defended both titles against Billy Calvert in Porthcawl, winning on points over fifteen rounds. |
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In December 1963 he again defended his titles against John O'Brien, again winning on points. |
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In January 1965 he defended his European title again, against Frenchman, Yves Desmarets in Rome. |
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In March 1966 he defended his European title against Andrea Silanos in Italy winning by a technical knockout in the fifteenth round. |
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In September 1966 he defended it against Belgian, Jean de Keers at Wembley and won on a technical knockout in three rounds. |
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In July 1968 he defended his newly won world title against the Cuban, Jose Legra, at Porthcawl, Wales. |
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On 30 September 1995 he defended his title for the last time, against Prince Naseem Hamed from Sheffield, England. |
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This was the first time the tactics of entrenched positions for infantry defended with machine guns and artillery became vitally important. |
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They defended their territories with trenches designed by Edilberto Evangelista. |
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Had he not repeatedly clashed with the commander of the land expedition, the force might have captured poorly defended Belfast. |
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As the expected site of an Allied invasion, Pas de Calais was heavily defended. |
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He reported his brief landing to Luftflotte 3 which came to the decision that the islands were not defended. |
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He therefore had to try to restrict the battle to his defended zones and counter any breakthrough both quickly and vigorously. |
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Females tend to be more territorial than males, although the areas most frequented by females are not defended. |
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Irenaeus reminded Victor of his predecessor more tolerant attitude and Polycrates emphatically defended the Asian practice. |
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This enables the carrying aircraft to attack a heavily defended target from a distance. |
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Clausentum was defended by a wall and two ditches and is thought to have contained a bath house. |
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He later defended the claims as fully related to his MP work, with the exception of the wrapping paper. |
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By the middle of the sixteenth century, it was a small settlement long eclipsed by the more easily defended town of Newport. |
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The forts through the forest were relatively lightly defended and on that account were always being burned by the Alamanni. |
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The Suessiones and Bellovaci surrendered after the Romans defended the Remi and then moved towards their lands. |
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Some sites were defended by ditches and banks, structures thought to have been built to defend against nomadic tribes from the steppe. |
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Caesar says that the enemy camp was defended by a wagon train, drawn up behind the German forces, which had now either to fight or to run. |
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Murena was named among the conspirators, the outspoken Consul who defended Primus in the Marcus Primus Affair. |
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The Goths, except for their cavalry, defended their wagon circle, inside of which were their families and possessions. |
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Elton, instead, strongly defended the traditional methods of history and was also appalled by the inroads made by postmodernism. |
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Kantianism inspired the work of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche as well as German idealism defended by Fichte and Hegel. |
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However, the Vanir defended their land and the battle turned to a stalemate, both sides having devastated one another's lands. |
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In 1399, Ma He successfully defended Beiping's city reservoir Zhenglunba against the imperial armies. |
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The sea walls at the southern shore of the Golden Horn were defended by Venetian and Genoese sailors under Gabriele Trevisano. |
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His work was defended, expanded upon, and corrected by Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler. |
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Portugal and Spain defended a Mare clausum policy during the age of discovery. |
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In addition, the river was heavily defended with fortifications since the Middle Ages. |
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For many years Philip maintained peace with England, and even defended Elizabeth from the Pope's threat of excommunication. |
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A garrison of 4,000 troops defended the city with such intensity that Don Fadrique contemplated withdrawing. |
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Since the khanate was established, Tatar Cossack troops defended the khanate from the Nogais. |
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Guiccardini defended him in Naples in 1535 before Charles V, contesting the exiled rebels' accusations of tyranny. |
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Part of Mercia and all of Kent were successfully defended but were then integrated into Wessex. |
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Grebel, Manz, and Blaurock defended their cause before Zwingli, Jud, and other reformers. |
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Later, in his conflict with the Anabaptists, he defended the practice of infant baptism, noting that there is no law forbidding the practice. |
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He immediately removed any doubts about Zwingli's orthodoxy and defended him as a prophet and a martyr. |
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Raleigh defended the refusal of the barons to change the law of bastardy and legitimation. |
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Adams then defended the Restatement project by arguing that all these critiques were actually critiques of the common law itself. |
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In a statement made in response to Tutu's comments, Blair defended his actions. |
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The great empires depended on military annexation of territory and on the formation of defended settlements to become agricultural centres. |
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While many of its leading citizens profited from and defended slavery, it also had been a frequent topic of pulpit rhetoric. |
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The Canadian colonies were thinly populated and only lightly defended by the British Army. |
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He set out to retake the city, which was now defended by Colonel Henry Procter in conjunction with Tecumseh. |
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It is notable in that the Tuscaroras defended the Americans against their own Iroquois brothers, the Mohawks, who sided with the British. |
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More controversially, he also defended the provisions for emergency presidential powers that became Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. |
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Camden successfully defended himself against the charges in subsequent editions of the work. |
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The recently regenerated Wakefield Waterfront area is defended by one of the most sophisticated flood defence systems in Europe. |
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Of the 30,000 Japanese troops that defended Saipan, fewer than 1,000 remained alive at battle's end. |
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Humboldt defended the idea that the Chinese suanpan might be at the origin of our number system. |
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He successfully defended his title in July 2008 before going on to win the PGA Championship in August. |
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A keep was a great tower and usually the most strongly defended point of a castle before the introduction of concentric defence. |
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Zenonism was defended on various occasions in the Jesuit context, and was also repressed and condemned a number of times. |
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Francoise Schepmans, the Mayor of Molenbeek, defended her lack of action after receiving the watchlist. |
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West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo defended his stumper, insisting he genuinely thought the ball hadn't touched the ground. |
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Plaw, who helps curate a database of drone strikes at UMass, defended the use of drones. |
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It gained its popular name from Sergeant Yakov Pavlov, who commanded the platoon that seized the building and defended it during the long battle. |
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The Minoan civilization based in Knossos on the island of Crete appears to have coordinated and defended its Bronze Age trade. |
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The burh she established was one of ten which defended Mercia against the invading Danes. |
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In an interview with French newspaper Metro News, the French striker defended himself against accusations that the quenelle is anti-semitic. |
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While Asquith's presentation was poorly done, Lloyd George vigorously defended his position, treating the debate as a vote of confidence. |
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Though they were indebted to David de Gea for a string of fine saves, they defended dutifully and redoubtably. |
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A Standard Life spokesman defended the awards, citing the leadership's efforts in turning round the company's fortunes. |
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Michael Horton, however, has defended the covenant of works as combining principles of law and love. |
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Knox refused and he defended himself in front of Mary and the Privy Council. |
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He defended their actions and noted she was bound to uphold the laws and if she did not, others would. |
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As archbishop, he defended the church's interests in England amid the Investiture Controversy. |
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Our customers have loyally supported our products, while the NRA has loyally defended the Second Amendment. |
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He delivered legal opinions favorable to the suppression of the Templars, but he also defended Boniface VIII and the Bull Unam Sanctam. |
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The southeast continued to be defended by the troops of the dux in Eburacum against attacks by the Picts and Scots. |
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At the same time Carausius successfully defended his island kingdom against barbarian invasions. |
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To the west and south, the Britannic provinces had to be defended against Hibernian and Germanic attacks. |
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The new rulers defended Dutch trading interests, which then developed rapidly. |
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His books defended democratic liberalism as a social and political philosophy. |
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Scotus argued against the version of illuminationism that had been defended earlier in the century by Henry of Ghent. |
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The Highlanders were struggling to get out of their own half but they were regimentally organised and defended superbly. |
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The television licence fee system has been variously criticised, commented upon and defended by the press. |
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Olivier defended Burton by retaliating that he too received the same kind of review by the same critic for the same role. |
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Hirst eventually defended the concept and refuted the accusation that he was only interested in making money. |
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Henry defended the legality of their union by pointing out that Catherine had previously been married. |
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Doyle defended Hope, but further evidence of trickery was obtained from other researchers. |
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His laments were loud and he always defended unfortunate debtors, but there is evidence that his financial dealings were not always honest. |
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This museum preserves several aircraft, including Hurricane and Spitfire fighters that defended the island in the Second World War. |
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But Hayley Limpkin, of the Maidstone and Medway branch of Razzamataz theatre school in Kent, defended the Barbie theme. |
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It was defended by local troops, but they did not have the necessary supplies. |
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Together with more than 50 Poles fighting in British squadrons, about 145 Polish pilots defended British skies. |
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Joseph Henry later defended interest in it, in the absence of the facts, as relevant to the management of movable type. |
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The portion of Mercia that was successfully defended, and all of Kent, were then integrated into Wessex under Alfred the Great. |
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In the same month, the Western Allied Baltic Fleet tried to destroy heavily defended Russian dockyards at Sveaborg outside Helsinki. |
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The city was defended by a mix of regular Iraqi army units, Ba'ath loyalists, and Fedayeen from both Iraq and abroad. |
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Exit from the beach was possible only via five heavily defended gullies, and by late morning barely 600 men had reached the higher ground. |
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Priestley defended his friend in the pamphlet Letter to a Layman, on the Subject of the Rev. |
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Omaha, the most heavily defended beach, was assigned to the 1st Infantry Division and 29th Infantry Division. |
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The cliffs were defended by the German 352nd Infantry Division and French collaborators firing from above. |
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Utah Beach was in the area defended by two battalions of the 919th Grenadier Regiment. |
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No one defended the Maghreb Union like the French President, Francois Hollande, did during his visit to Morocco. |
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As it was expected to be the site of the invasion, the Pas de Calais was heavily defended. |
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But the strangest story of all is how he was badly injured when observing for the guns as the Germans defended the village of Villas Bocage. |
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Newton's position was vigorously defended by his follower Samuel Clarke in a famous correspondence. |
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The loss of two brigades of 17th Indian Division meant that Rangoon could not be defended. |
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Britain and France sought to take the offensive, while Germany defended the occupied territories. |
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When the policeman tried to take Gunn into custody he defended himself with a kalsomine brush to the great detriment of the officer's uniform. |
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