Word: defend
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Unlike the Administrative Board, the College's traditional disciplinary body made up of senior tutors and deans, the CRR allows students to serve as voting members, and defendants to defend themselves before the committee...
Friendship was not the only reason Reagan and Republican Party Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf wanted Laxalt to stay put on Capitol Hill. The G.O.P. is concerned that defeats in the 1986 elections could erase the party's current 53-47 Senate majority. While the Republicans must defend 22 seats on the ballot next year, the Democrats have only twelve seats at risk. In Florida, South Dakota, Idaho and Washington, Democrats hope to win seats now held by the G.O.P. They feel that the large blocs of registered Democrats in New York and Pennsylvania will help them unseat Republican incumbents in those...
...abortions in the third trimester. Roe v. Wade found that a woman's right to make reproductive decisions is part of a "right to privacy" implicit in the 14th Ammendment to the Constitution. Judge Harry Blackmun, in the historic 1973 ruling, decided that government, when forced to choose, should defend the life/right of a woman over a "potential life" of a fetus...
...flight 847 by Lebanese Shiites is an event which must be evaluated from the broad perspective. I do not suggest the interpretation that Mr. Kahn is so quick to reject, that U.S. foreign policy is directly responsible for the hijacking; nor do I in any way condone or defend the actions of the hijackers. But I do insist that we must attempt to fully understand the incident, realistically evaluating both its causes and its repercussions, if we are ever to make progress in preventing terrorism in the Middle East. The "swift and severe retaliation" which Mr. Kahn suggests and which...
...need for a Homeric hero to defend us from all the world's evils is perpetual. We needn't be discouraged when events work themselves out without the crack of gunfire, the staccato commands of platoon leaders and the anguished screams of the dead and wounded...