We need to speak of those values.

We defend the creation of a center of reference for indigenous culture.

Finally, we need to defend the human right to food.

The other is whether voluntary euthanasia is ethically defensible.

But we too rarely articulate and defend and argue about those big moral questions in our politics.

To speak out for the freedom of Álvarez Paz is to defend the freedom of all Venezuelans.

Beyond fundamental freedoms and economic prosperity, do we have a specific civilization to defend?

We at Aknaf Beit Al Maqdis are defending the capital of the Palestinian diaspora and the blood of our people

But if we are to resolutely defend the Organization's principles and mandates, then reform is essential in order to make it more representative and effective.

We must be prepared not only to proclaim our principles but also to defend them and, above all, live up to them.

This means that we have to defend Salman Rushdie and the Danish cartoonists and the friends of Idomeneo , whether we like them or not.

That is why, today, it is critically important, in the face of a dark force that is rising, swelling, and unfurling in Europe, to defend Angela Merkel.

We, the authors of this article, as well as the organization we represent, the Socialist International, have always defended Israel s right to exist and defend itself.

That is why we advocate preserving the Council's compact size and insist that the membership of an expanded Security Council not exceed a reasonable size say, 20 plus members.

The Russian poet Leonid Leonov summed up the outcome of the Second World War with the words We have defended not only our lives and our property, but also the very notion of a human being .

Self defense or not, the real question is who should we be defending ourselves against? As Dinan Anosy mentioned, thieves are part of the community and are known to the population.

But it is difficult to defend the current line between what athletes can and cannot do in order to enhance their performance.

And so I think we shouldn't be so eager to always take their word for it, especially when it's 120 degrees out and you're wearing a full burqa.

So, basically like DA BOMB what Dominican American Benevolent Organization for Mothers and Babies does is, basically, we try to advocate for students who show a lot of academic promise and who also happen to be mothers like me.

(Indeed, all war ministries have become defense ministries, leaving one to wonder against whom a country must be defended if there are no longer any attackers.)

In this context, the Draghi put was a highly defensible action. Refusing to consider any amount of monetary financing, and continuing to adhere to a strict inflation target, would have been much more difficult to justify.

We must resolutely defend those values and rights, on which both the United Nations and the Council of Europe were founded, and we must also make sure that measures taken by Governments do not curtail those same values and rights.

Instead of rejecting such laws as restricting freedom, therefore, we should defend them as ways to level the playing field between individuals and giant corporations that make no pretense of appealing to our capacities for reasoning and reflection.

One is whether a person has a right to refuse life sustaining medical treatment. The other is whether voluntary euthanasia is ethically defensible.

But if our civilization is worth defending, why is it that fundamentalists, of whatever stripe, have the most committed fighters on their side? Can we oppose them with anything but individual rights?

Some argue that taking drugs is against the spirit of sport. But it is difficult to defend the current line between what athletes can and cannot do in order to enhance their performance.

These are the internal wars every nation and society, no matter how big or small, must win. Cory Aquino s lifetime of service and sacrifice provided the tools and a model for how to win that seemingly eternal struggle. To sustain such a treasured legacy and defend democracy wherever it is threatened is our collective responsibility.

1930 s appeasement a word that elides diplomatic engagement and the rejection of military options was said to remind us of what would happen if South Vietnam was not defended and Iraq not invaded. We know what happened in both countries.

Why do we blog and why do we defend this cyberspace which has given us more than our nations and more than what our rulers with their tyranny, armies and treasury, which should serve us are taking away from us? It is, as Fouad had written, because we refuse the herd mentality.

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.