Word: defend
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Sadat has lately been wringing his hands about Israel's claimed right to defend its civilian settlements in the Sinai. In fact, Begin and his colleagues have left themselves considerable latitude to negotiate on that matter. The much more fundamental, probably insoluble problem is Begin's seeming commitment, passionately held and repeatedly articulated, to the incorporation into the Jewish state of what he calls the liberated territories of Judea and Samaria-and what most of the world, the U.S. included, calls the occupied territories of the West Bank...
After a long year of keeping his political distance from Carter, Byrd plunged into the treaty battle. At his urging, Carter and Torrijos issued a joint statement clarifying two points in the treaties: that the U.S. would permanently retain the right to defend the waterway's neutrality, and that in an emergency U.S. Navy vessels would "go to the head of the line" through the canal...
...Southern Growth Policies Board, a 13-state coalition established in 1971, Busbee has become a leader of the South's resistance to efforts by the depressed Northern states to shift federal spending programs from the Sunbelt to the Snowbelt. Explains a Policies Board official: "We have to defend our region." Indeed, precisely that mood is spawning an unmistakable increase in a kind of petulant, poorer-than-thou sectionalism in many parts...
...voted to send five students to the next Faculty Council meeting on Wednesday "to discuss and defend" a CUE proposal to give prizes to instructors who show outstanding teaching talents, Pfeffer said
...homosexuals from the clergy and from lay offices. Virtually all major U.S. churches still do. But the increasingly organized and vocal campaign by homosexuals to be treated just like everyone else poses particular problems for Christian churches. Their creed commands brotherhood and forgiveness, but it also obliges them to defend specific standards of conduct based on the Bible...