Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, both faculty and students adamantly defend the program...
...money isn't enough for AIDS activists, who won't be content until they transform the nation's attitude about homosexuality and gay rights. One group was pushing for an elementary school curriculum to "form and defend gay/straight alliances in public schools." Another spent $1.5 million to encourage others to come out of the closet. Such plans bristle Americans who agree that all disease should be combated, yet resent being vilified for their moral objections to homosexuality itself...
Baker is not the working class hero, "standing tall...against the culture of absurd complaints," as Barnicle believes. Baker is a boorish, disrespectful self-stigmatized pseudo-intellectual who attempted to defend his unprofessional actions by citing Plato instead of heeding his employer's request for a formal apology. At the very least, he could have said: "Look, I graduated from Harvard in 1976, but I'm stuck in a dead-end job. Can't you understand why I'm grouchy...
...looks like war, as you turn a corner into heavy fire. Several combatants are blasting away in an alcove just beyond your reach. You move closer, annihilating one warrior and zeroing in on a second. Then you sense a presence over your right shoulder. Before you can turn to defend yourself, however, the scene on the screen lurches and topples. You've fallen, and you aren't getting up, as the line across the top of the screen makes clear: "Reviser is pierced by Grrrl's nail gun." Again...
When asked to defend why he was raising revenue by levying a new tax on the use of lavatories in ancient Rome, Emperor Vespasian smugly replied, "Money has no smell." In spite of the unpopularity of this measure, no one could possibly see an ethical conflict in the Emperor's edict. But the reported private favors of "The Corporate Dole" are of a different nature. Unless the Republicans can show in each of the reported cases that the public at large benefited from the privileges granted to private enterprise, these transactions look blatantly unethical, and the monies involved have...