Word: defendable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Brown said. “We want to leave it all on the field. We’re all fired up and no one wants to stop playing baseball right now. We love it and we’re excited to go out there and defend our Ivy League title.”—Staff writer Julie R.S. Fogarty can be reached at fogarty2@fas.harvard.edu...
...soon thereafter forgot about Howard Roark. Nevertheless, what is common from Milton Friedman to John Mackey is a fervent, but tempered belief in individual choice. Importantly, liberty does not have to come at the expense of society’s plunge into an anarchic abyss; few libertarians would defend the choice of an industry to discard toxic chemicals into a river...
...whether CIA employees may take it upon themselves to reveal CIA secrets to the media. The answer is no. There is, in the first quarter-inch of every CIA employee's personnel file, an ironclad secrecy agreement forbidding such. It is the law--and properly so. One can easily defend the need for unyielding discipline when it comes to guarding the nation's secrets. And one can point to legitimate internal channels for dissent. But all that may be irrelevant in today's charged atmosphere, in which the policies of the agency--alleged torture, slapstick renditions, secret detention centers, wrongful...
What do you do when the secrecy agreement you were required to sign in order to work for the CIA is at odds with your oath to defend the Constitution of the U.S. and your obligation under international law, articulated at the Nuremberg Tribunal, to do what you reasonably can to prevent crimes like torture and kidnapping? That should be a no-brainer, and I believe we owe a debt of gratitude to those who could see that the Constitution and Nuremberg trump any secrecy oath...
...Ready for His Close-Up Amid reports of clashes between al-Zarqawi?s fighters and local insurgents, new images of al-Qaeda?s leader appear for the first time in years, in a videotape posted on the Internet last week. In it al-Zarqawi urges all Muslims to defend Islam from Western "crusaders...