Word: defended
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...Upon finishing, I found that I could contradict my thesis about as well as I could defend it, and I still had a list of questions and leads that I wanted to follow. I felt not just relief but wonder that I had finished what began with a bit of unseen evidence, and sadness that the process was over. What began with belief ended with knowledge, experience, and disbelief...
...occupation. No, no for Israel.' MUQTADA AL-SADR, radical Shi'ite cleric, emerging in public for the first time in months, in a fiery anti-American sermon in the holy Shi'ite city of Kufa. He called for U.S. forces to leave Iraq, but vowed to defend Sunnis and Christians...
...need to unwind is well deserved. But they can rest assured that the Country Club is secure, thanks to the many young soldiers fighting beyond the walls of the Green Zone. Those soldiers, I would add, do not have the pleasure of patronizing the bar; they just get to defend it. Cheers to all you carpet-bagging contractors and nonessential embassy employees. And if it gets too hot, just fan yourselves with all the money you're making...
...problem with Syria. They consider that it is a threat against their regime. If I want to please this, and please that, I am not going to please anybody. I tell my own people that there are certain principles that are worth [holding] fast and trying to defend them. Otherwise, everybody can dare to slap us on the face. We have to prove that this is a country, this is a sovereign state, this is an independent one, we [want the state to prevail] all over Lebanon, and... having a democratic and free country. Those who have not been voting...
...cleaving the nation, with a creeping Islamization undermining the rights of both non-Muslims and more moderate adherents to Islam. Last November, at a party conference for the Muslim-dominated United Malays National Organization ruling party, one delegate vowed he would be willing to "bathe in blood" to defend his ethnicity - and, by extension, his religion. In several Malaysian states, forsaking Islam is a crime punishable by prison time...