Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outcome of all this preparation is a form of cost-benefit analysis, where successive rebuttal opportunities help weed out poorly - reasoned and insufficiently-documented arguments. Teams succeed or fail on their ability to produce and defend concrete and empirically demonstrable advantages and disadvantages for particular proposals...
Because the referendum touched directly on Roman Catholic Italy's traditional church-state conflict, the result was a severe defeat for the hierarchy and the Vatican. Bishops had told Catholics that they had a duty to "defend their model of the family"-a clear directive to repeal divorce. Most of the country's 190,000 priests and nuns campaigned vigorously for repeal; but many clerics defended divorce, and they were promptly disciplined by their superiors. After the balloting, Pope Paul VI expressed his "astonishment and pain" at the results. The referendum has already triggered new demands for revision...
...straw that would break the camel's back. But this really is the straw." Added Smith: "People are reading the transcripts. We are now hearing from the bedrock conservatives in Arizona, and they do not like what they are reading. They are telling us: 'We can no longer defend this man.' The only thing that is keeping Nixon alive is the slowness of the U.S. mails...
...Nobody's Perfect." Some of the President's hard-core supporters continued to defend him. Senator Strom Thurmond, Republican of South Carolina, said that he saw nothing in the transcripts that justified impeachment. Virginia G.O.P. Senator William Scott laconically commented on the President's role in the transcripts: "Nobody's perfect." Senator Wallace Bennett, Republican of Utah, criticized presidential critics who called for resignation as being willing to "destroy the system...
...inevitability that they were bound to support, Republicans were still anguishing about how to ride the wave that was swamping them. Scarcely a Republican could be found to disagree with a remark last week by Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker: "I think the party has no obligation whatever to defend the President." But they had not yet agreed on any concerted plan of action, such as going to the President and telling him to step down. Less patient outsiders have wondered why the Republicans have not summoned their courage and marched on the White House to demand the President's resignation...