Word: defendents
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...this point, Emanuel, who has a sister who suffers from cerebral palsy, had arrived in northern Italy, where he planned to spend a week on vacation, hiking in the Dolomites. Instead, he found himself calling the White House, offering to book a plane home to defend his name. "As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it," he said by phone from the Italian Alps. "If it requires canceling a week's long vacation, what's the big deal?" (Read TIME's cover story "Can Obama Find...
...Sabine Mannitz at the Peace Institute Research Frankfurt (PRIF) writes, “the Swiss concept of the citizen-soldier aims at the lowest possible degree of institutionalising military structures and at a maximum of immediate democratic control.” Compulsory militia service, the obligation to defend the polity on equal share, is the other side of the coin of semi-direct democratic participation rights. If you have equal decision-making power, you have equal responsibility...
...points out that the board is bound by its constitution to defer to its most senior ecclesiastical authority, Sir Jonathan Sacks, on matters of religion - and Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the U.K.'s mainstream synagogues, is head of the United Synagogue, which has already spent $225,000 helping JFS defend its case. (Read "Avigdor Lieberman: Politically Incorrect...
...recording industry now has to defend the logic of imposing bankrupting damages," Nesson said. "This is only the beginning...
...Testified before Congress in 2007 to defend Blackwater against allegations of misconduct by its operatives in Iraq and Afghanistan...