Word: defend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hague. The U.S. told that tribunal in advance that it would not recognize any World Court jurisdiction over Central American matters for two years. State Department Spokesman John Hughes explained that Washington felt it could not get a fair hearing because among other reasons it could not defend itself adequately against Nicaragua's charges without disclosing secret intelligence information. A Government statement added: "We do not wish to see the court abused as a forum for furthering a propaganda campaign...
...trains with her husband and thinks her new occupation can help the old. "Most women believe modeling is more feminine than patrolling the subways, so I'll be able to relate to them better," explains Sliwa. "You don't have to be a gorilla to defend yourself, and you don't have to be a Nerf-brain to be a model." Nor to figure out that a $2,000-a-day modeling fee can buy a lot of subway tokens...
...think that to defend Reverend Jackson of any Black man that is standing up for justice for you is to put yourself in jeopardy with white people because white people don't like that, Jesse's on a mission. He may never make it to the White House, but he will have done the job that God put on his shoulder to do like no other Black man could...
Finally, we must deal with the women who went to the party on Saturday, and who have continued to defend Pi Eta. The message of their words and actions are the most disturbing of this entire affair. As for the women themselves, it is clear that they have so internalized the sexist mores of society that they have developed extreme cases of self-hate. They claim that the reason they went to the party was that they knew the newsletter was "not intended to be taken seriously, and...does not represent the attitude of most of the members...
Bulger responded to Bachrach's criticism by saying that he saw little us in trying to defend the structure of the senate--"I'm doomed from the start because I seem to be defending my own kingdom...