Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Before this decision," he said, "the burden of proof was on the plaintiffs to show that racial discrimination was the sole motive for a city's failure to serve some of its citizens, Now, however, the burden is on the city to defend its actions...
Since the Home Secretary chose to defend his actions as a matter involving national security, some of the deliberations were held in secret, and Dutschke was not even informed of the evidence against him. The tribunal held that while Dutschke did not pose "any appreciable threat to national security," he violated his commitment to refrain from political activity by meeting with radicals in Britain and by traveling to Calais and Berlin to confer with like-minded revolutionaries...
...fascinating trend on U.S. campuses this year is the emergence of hired professionals to defend students' interests. At six of the University of California's nine campuses, for instance, student governments are spending $ 12,000 for a lobbyist to represent them for six months at the state capital in Sacramento. Boston University students have retained a local attorney; federal poverty lawyers help University of Michigan students. But what if the lawyers clash with the administrators...
...screen. In the rape scenes, he gives us a lot of frontal nudity (which only became permissible in R films last year), all of it exploiting Indian women. When Candice gets around to her long-promised sex scene, the director discreetly cuts away. I suppose he might try to defend himself on grounds of realism-Miss Bergen's orgasms hardly being central to his theme-but the whole ploy screams of double standards...
...also filed an affirmative suit against New York City when Angela was put in solitary, and we won. She then decided she-also wanted us to defend her in California," Burns explained. Davis chose Howard Moore of Atlanta as her chief defense counsel. The remainder of the staff has yet to be picked, according to Burns...