Word: defender
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fledged news conference with the press -- you may remember a little political distraction called impeachment -- the President went before the White House press corps on Friday to address the issues of state. The President used the session to lay out the political groundwork for military intervention in Kosovo, to defend his human rights and security policies regarding China, and yes -- how could he avoid it -- to promote an image of marital peace (?We love each other very much and we?re working on it,? said the President). ?The event,? says TIME White House Correspondent Jay Branegan, ?was part of Bill...
...stands now, the hypocrisy of killing for people for "pro-life"' and lawlessness of these radicals stand as a direct affront to the constitution as defined by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. Abortion rights activists must do more to defend their rights against these mounting threats. A lot has changed since 1992 when over 500 pro-choice demonstrators showed up at a Brighton, MA clinic to protect it from Operation Rescuers. Opponents of abortion rights have become even more resistant and violent, while pro-choicers have become increasingly apathetic. It is hard to find more than...
...make this admission with confidence. I accept my tendency to bumble with words and feel inclined to defend my often incoherent speech. I have no pretensions about my way of speaking. It is not that my thoughts are too complex to articulate, nor is my soul profaned in base expression--at Harvard I have simply developed a distaste for the "stylized-explicit," precision vocabulary that evades making any point at all. Section superstars, masters of this technique, have essentially unlocked the secret of the horoscope--by expressing generic thoughts with seemingly specific words, they magically persuade all those willing. While...
...make this admission with confidence. I accept my tendency to bumble with words and feel inclined to defend my often incoherent speech. I have no pretensions about my way of speaking. It is not that my thoughts are too complex to articulate, nor is my soul profaned in base expression--at Harvard I have simply developed a distaste for the "stylized-explicit," precision vocabulary that evades making any point at all. Section superstars, masters of this technique, have essentially unlocked the secret of the horoscope--by expressing generic thoughts with seemingly specific words, they magically persuade all those willing. While...
...decent people in inner-city neighborhoods are so distrustful of the police that they feel they have no choice but to take matters of personal defense into their own hands," says Anderson. "Instead of relying on the police to protect them, they let other people know that they can defend themselves with overwhelming force, which these days means having a gun and being willing to use it." The inflated sense of confidence that packing a gun engenders, especially in young men, can easily escalate a petty argument into a fatal confrontation. Step on somebody's shoes, and you could wind...