Word: defendant
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...anyone who joined the Smoke-out this or any year, I offer my good wishes. Buck up, stub it out, and watch the minute hand of your cigaretteless day creep like an hour hand. My aim here is not to defend smoking; I freely acknowledge that, as a hobby (all right, a habit), it smells, and that Woody Allen was probably being satirical when, in "Sleeper," one of his scientists from the future announces that smoking does not cause cancer but cures it. I might even say that the Nick Tosches quote I cited last time about Las Vegas - that...
...four-and-a-half years after applying, the pressure to clarify one’s plans and ambitions only climbs. Students find themselves forced to defend the viability of their future earning potential. “What kind of job will a Folklore and Mythology degree get you?” “Which graduate school will...
...laid out by the Geneva Convention, it must follow those rules itself. To protect American troops and citizens abroad, the U.S. depends on cooperation from other governments in assuring that Americans receive just treatment. Only by applying those ethical standards itself can the U.S. have the moral authority to defend its citizens from future mistreatment. U.S. hypocrisy is obvious to the world—its feeble “do as I say, not as I do” behavior will not help gain the trust of nations and people with which the U.S. hopes to build constructive relationships...
...guards, working with [the] point guards, make it very hard to defend us,” junior Katie Murphy said. “Whatever two guards are playing, they make a way for the offense to gel, using their different strengths...
...stations 40,000 troops in bases across Japan to defend its ally and guard the region's sea-lanes. An additional 37,000 American soldiers are posted in South Korea to prevent an attack from the unpredictable North. To President George W. Bush, those might seem good reasons to expect help in Iraq from two Asian friends. But last week, a day after the suicide attack in the southern Iraqi town of Nasiriyah that killed 31 people, including 18 Italians, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Japan was suspending plans to dispatch its Self-Defense Forces (S.D.F...