Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and, in fact, it has been drastically weakened in all Western countries. The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals. It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as human obligations...
...liberty for moral violence against young people, motion pictures full of pornography, crime and horror. It is considered to be part of freedom and theoretically counterbalanced by the young people's right not to look or not to accept. Life organized legalistically has thus shown its inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil...
...West, there still is criminality and there even is considerably more of it than in the pauper and lawless Soviet society. (There is a huge number of prisoners in our camps who are termed criminals, but most of them never committed any crime; they merely tried to defend themselves against a lawless state resorting to means outside of a legal framework...
...after concluding all this I went back to my editor prepared to defend my choice of a book to review. So what if I didn't get some of the jokes or pick up some of the fine ethnic nuances or understand the particularly Jewish outlook of the minor characters. So what, I planned to say, it doesn't matter because, you see, Levine is no mere ethnic, he talks about so many common experiences like pride and happiness, anyone can understand. The old Levy's Rye ad came to mind. You really don't have to be Jewish...
Many lawyers and prosecutors defend plea bargaining as "flexible," claiming that bargaining can shape the sentence to the individual defendant. What is more, says Maricopa County (Ariz.) Attorney Charles Hyder, it is "the greatest weapon a prosecutor has. The prosecutor is in the driver's seat. Usually the defendant is not aware of any weaknesses in a case...