Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Basically, what I told them [the trustees] is that if they had to choose between defending the substance [of the report] and defending a person, the should defend substance," Parker said...
...always hated such parties because "Leftists scolded me for failing to promote world revolutions. The Zionists reproached me for not dramatizing the struggle of the Jewish state and the heroism of its pioneers." And his hostess adds to this list of grievances when she says she must defend the narrator against attacks of being snob, cynic, misanthrope and recluse...
...bill allows a public servant to defend himself in court on the basis that his illegal conduct "was required or authorized by law to carry out the defendant's authority." This provision would have allowed the Watergate conspirators to claim they were just following orders. S.1 would let them out of jail. And in what may become the government's most effective weapon to keep the public uninformed, the bill would allow a bureaucrat at almost any level of government to classify material only vaguely related to national security...
Somewhere along the line, the defense department's eagerness to "defend the West" and the willingness of successive administrations to adopt Pentagon policies left one essential question unanswered: What exactly about the West was the United States defending? During Eisenhower's visit, the former president could hardly have agreed with the last remaining vestige of fascism in Europe when Franco spoke of their mutual "defense of peace and liberty...
...central command during the long exile, necessitating local and regional decision-making. The growth of illegal workers' commissions, dominated by party members over the last fifteen years, confirms the trend. These factory-based councils have ties to the PCE but possess limitless autonomy. Laborers set up the commissions to defend their wage-and-hour interests in a way that the Francoist Sindicacio Nacional does not. The councils have no set programs, no dues and no distinctions are made between members and non-members. The activist membership which the commissions channel into the PCE protects the party from bureaucratic rigidity...