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A state is far more likely to go to war to
defend
its unity.
Once human beings are categorized as parasites, germs, or noxious termites, the conclusion that they must be destroyed to
defend
social health is not far off.
To
defend
it, Jews would always lie to Gentiles.
The new Ukraine is still alive and determined to
defend
itself.
In the future, Cameron declared, Muslim groups that do not, for example, endorse women’s rights,
defend
freedom of expression, or promote integration would lose all government funding.
And yet Derna’s citizens were among the first to rejoice when American and NATO sorties were launched to
defend
the rebel-held city of Benghazi and to attack Qaddafi in his lair in Tripoli.
Few of Trump’s campaign comments can be described as insightful and fair, but he had a point when he suggested that Europe cannot rely on America to
defend
it if it remains unwilling to make a fair contribution to military capability.
Indeed, rejection of the EU Constitution is a sure way to kill European dynamism and weaken Europe’s ability to
defend
itself.
Since 2001, NATO has been moving to create a more robust framework to
defend
its members against non-state actors and asymmetric threats.
Readiness to
defend
the state is a specific manifestation of a human being's sense of personal dignity.
If we rebel against humiliation, insult or enslavement as individuals; if we
defend
our individual human dignity and resist attacks that threaten it; we do -- indeed we must do -- precisely the same as a community that has established a state, because the state is, among other things, an instrument to protect our life together in freedom.
In other words: readiness to
defend
a democratic state and its values against violence, aggression and evil should be nothing less than a natural extension of the inherent will of each individual to
defend
one's own dignity against potential threats.
Modern European history gives us ample evidence that wars and suffering are most likely when democracies underestimate self-defense in peacetime, or fail to summon enough readiness to
defend
themselves before it is too late.
It is now, with the first chance ever to build broad structures designed to
defend
the democratic world that people must demonstrate a serious commitment to defense effort.
An army will always remain an unequivocal expression of the shared will to live in freedom, to
defend
freedom and to engage in joint efforts in order to ensure freedom for others as well.
And yet WHO officials continue to
defend
their actions.
The motive today is not to
defend
ethnic Germans abroad – their expulsion in the millions in the 1940s ended that particular concern – so much as the more laudable desire to preserve the values of a democratic EU against the new authoritarianism from the East.
Nevertheless, Europe is reasonably equipped to
defend
itself against external threats.
The central banks of South Korea, Brazil, Taiwan, Japan, Switzerland, and many other countries are now buying dollars in order to protect their own currencies against revaluation and thus to
defend
their exports.
Now, more than ever, we must believe this, for Russian troops wearing Ukrainian uniforms have entered our country, because Ukrainian soldiers are refusing to carry out orders to crush those who are demonstrating to
defend
our democracy.
On the contrary, it would compel member states’ governments to look beyond narrow national interest,
defend
openness and multilateralism, and confront head-on the exclusionary political forces that have lately been gaining ground.
But now the Chinese have resumed their efforts to
defend
the currency, just when Trump is renewing his accusations.
They would also vote against austerity, imposed as a part of the EU’s strategy to
defend
the monetary union.
Finally, we need to
defend
the human right to food.
These powerful forces, many of which operate anonymously under US law, are working relentlessly to
defend
those at the top of the income distribution.
This month, a number of tech firms, including Microsoft and Facebook, declared that they will not assist any government in conducting offensive cyberwarfare operations, and that they will
defend
unconditionally any countries or individuals targeted by a cyber attack.
His strategy seems to be to
defend
Baghdad as another Stalingrad, street by street, house by house.
It is also realistic in not even trying to
defend
Iraq's borders against American air power.
But it is fantasy to think that the people of Baghdad will
defend
Saddam's regime.
Syrian opposition groups beg for the kinds of weapons needed to fight President Bashar al-Assad’s planes,
defend
hard-won territory, provide safety for civilians, and signal to Assad that the world will not stand by as he does whatever it takes to subdue his own people.
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