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Indeed, not only must China refrain from interfering in Hong Kong’s internal affairs, but it must encourage the people of Hong Kong to
defend
their much smaller system.
While a significant number expressed a desire for Japan to improve its ability to
defend
itself, an overwhelming majority rejected the idea of developing nuclear arms and supported continued reliance on the US-Japan Security Treaty.
It also requires the courage to step out of the world of pragmatic power and
defend
-- non-violently -- truth and justice wherever they are violated, whether or not profitable commercial contracts are placed at risk.
For example, how might the club of four
defend
and promote liberal values?
Moreover, the European Commission last month launched a new defense fund to close the gap between Europe’s aspiration to
defend
itself and its ability to do so.
Such efforts are already having an impact, with citizens mobilizing to
defend
the ocean and policymakers beginning to respond to their calls.
That is why, for example, Pakistan’s army is prepared to undermine all other institutions in the country it is sworn to defend, in the name of wounding India.
With economic growth slowing to a record 50-year low during his tenure, Chen Shui-bian is seeking ways to divert public attention by assuming the role of a daring leader ready to
defend
Taiwan's sovereignty.
While this helps them to
defend
their own interests more effectively, it also allows them to play a much more active role in international crisis management, such as the protection of civilians in Libya in 2011.
So half of incoming American college students don’t know what our democracy is, let alone how to
defend
it when it is threatened.
I call on states throughout the land to re-institute the study of US civics so that we will produce citizens who understand our legacy and can
defend
liberty and the Constitution when it is threatened.
Politically, it is much simpler – and electorally more rewarding – to criticize a system than it is to
defend
it, especially when that system is far from perfect.
But
defend
it we must, with leaders explaining effectively why rules are necessary, including by educating the public on why the system operates the way it does.
In two years, another third of the Senate will be up for reelection, and far more Democrats than Republicans will have to
defend
their seats – a reversal of the situation this year.
MELBOURNE – After a century that saw two world wars, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin’s Gulag, the killing fields of Cambodia, and more recent atrocities in Rwanda and now Darfur, the belief that we are progressing morally has become difficult to
defend.
The US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America have constructed a regional legal framework, which must not be abandoned, to
defend
democratic rule and human rights in the hemisphere.
The truth is that the central bank would struggle to
defend
its independence once the taboo of monetary financing of government debt was violated.
Monetary policymakers should
defend
this red line – which means keeping the helicopters on the ground.
Instead, there is defiance and self-affirmation: “They will not do that to me...”Evita was the wife who would intercede before her husband to
defend
her “children,” the crowds of “descamisados,” or shirtless people.
He views it as the paranoid response of Russia’s “authoritarian kleptocracy” to the West’s far-from-vigorous attempts to
defend
the independence of new sovereign states like Ukraine and Georgia.
If they want to
defend
the incomes of the unskilled (or the less motivated), they have four options.
The first option is to
defend
the wages of the low skilled through minimum-wage laws or paying social replacement incomes which imply minimum wage demands against the private economy.
So it should be no surprise that, as Koizumi moves toward the end of his second and final term in office, his efforts to reform the constitution to allow Japan more effectively to
defend
world peace are gathering pace.
When one group of citizens, acting in their own self-interest, threatens everyone, the state must
defend
the greater good.
Yet the conference will undoubtedly have its share of obsequious displays designed to appeal to Trump’s vanity, with participants by turns fawning over him and propping him up as he clumsily attempts to
defend
the indefensible, starting with his “America First” approach.
Earlier this month, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Senator David Perdue of Georgia both attempted to
defend
Trump’s blatantly racist comments by claiming, first, that they did not recall hearing him say “shithole” and, later, that he must have said “shithouse” instead.
Only by doing so can they
defend
the principles established in the Inter-American Democratic Charter.
Against this backdrop, it is easier to
defend
the status quo than to advocate accommodation involving territorial concessions.
The people and their leaders must continue to
defend
democracy, and the courts must guard their independence.
Active citizens who
defend
the liberal order must thus be its safeguard.
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