Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more arms than it needs to protect its borders, a fact that worries other Gulf nations. In defense of the buildup, Iranian military officials argue that their country has potentially antagonistic neighbors in the Soviet Union and Iraq and that the country has a particular responsibility to defend and keep open the narrow Strait of Hormuz, through which pass tankers carrying more than half of the West's oil supply...
Holcombe now says he still won't accept the suspension, and just this week filed another grievance complaining that Mullins "degraded" him and "took the Lord's name in vain" in a meeting they had on Monday. He also criticises Stefani for not being at the meeting to defend him against the questioning of six supervisors...
...appropriate sentence. He claimed that he hoped Sirica "considers whatever Bob Haldeman did, he did not for himself but for the President of the United States; that the virtue of loyalty is not to be forgotten when evaluating all the attending circumstances." This same argument was used to defend fascist killers at Nuremburg...
...passes. "This chain of mountains is the most important geographic factor in Sinai," explains a senior Israeli commander. "North of the passes is soft sand, which makes hard going for armor. To the south are high granite mountains that make large-scale maneuvers impossible. From here we can defend all of Sinai...
...DEFENDING "MIDDLECLASS INTERESTS": If middle-class values include the encouragement of variety and individual choice, the provision of incentives and rewards for skill and hard work, the maintenance of effective barriers against the excessive power of the state and a belief in the wide distribution of individual private property, then they are certainly what I am trying to defend...