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There will be a phase until 2017 where we have limited growth ... and where we need to defend our position. – Michael Horn	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We remain committed to our aim of visiting Leopoldo Lopez, we are here to defend democracy and until now the Venezuelan government has shown little appreciation of it. – Aecio Neves	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I have 10 cupboards full of documents to defend myself, i'm glad the trial will take place in Genoa. It is not easy to transport all of that material ... I was expecting this anyway and we're going to have fun at the trial. – Giovanni Berneschi	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We'll continue to defend our human rights so that people inside and outside Peru can hear, and know, that our rights were violated, that we suffered, and that this really did happen. – Esperanza Huayama	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have to decide how we defend ourselves and when it is time to intervene in a country and when maybe intervening makes things worse. – Rand Paul	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Most of what's occurring is through organized crime, these are well-funded groups. They work Monday to Friday. They are probably better funded and better staffed than a lot people who are trying to defend against them. – Caleb Barlow	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
What apparently happened was that the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight, they were not outnumbered. In fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force, and yet they failed to fight, they withdrew from the site, and that says to me, and I think to most of us, that we have an issue with the will of the Iraqis to fight ISIL and defend themselves. – Defense Secretary Ash Carter	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Probably they are talking about private debts, but at the same time they are hinting that they aren't prepared to pay off the debts of the (former Ukrainian president Viktor) Yanukovich government, if it is actually formulated in this way this would undoubtedly be a default of Ukraine ... We would adopt as tough a position as possible in this case and defend our national interests. – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If it is actually formulated in this way this would undoubtedly be a default of Ukraine ... We would adopt as tough a position as possible in this case and defend our national interests. – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
My life experience in the military, I was so proud of it, to defend the territory of South Sudan. – Ngor Mayol	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Whoever goes for Diosdado goes for us, goes for me. We're going to defend him, we can't accept it. – Nicolas Maduro	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The governor made the position very clear that any Iraqi who wishes to defend Iraq is welcome to do so, provided that they are fighting under the Iraqi banner and under the command and control of the Iraqi official security forces. – Muhannad Haimour	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The NAACP would defend Mrs. Gordeuk's right as a private citizen to free speech, however, those entrusted with responsibility for our children must set a high standard marked by civility. That is obviously a test the former principal failed. – Francys Johnson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If they can deploy an operational submarine that could launch ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads, it would give them a pretty credible second strike capability, and it's difficult to defend against, it would give them the kind of deterrent that they have said they wish to have. – Daniel Pinkston	Found on CNN 9 years ago
There were three or four marches in different places in the village, they were…chanting: ‘With our souls and blood, we will defend you, oh Islam! We will not leave you; we will take revenge for you! – Ashraf Salah	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
They were…chanting: ‘With our souls and blood, we will defend you, oh Islam! We will not leave you; we will take revenge for you! – Ashraf Salah	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
For me, this is something so important. I’m a teacher. And I’m not going to mess with the minds of these kids. I want to help them. I always tell them to be proud of their ideas and defend them. If you have an idea from the right or the left, learn what it is and be able to defend it. – Jennifer Knesbach	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The Houthis are now targeting the borders of the kingdom and the situation is that we will defend our citizens, coalition forces will deliver a harsh response starting this moment, so that those who carried out this operation will pay the price. – Ahmed Asseri	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's very weak support, what we need is to have our own military equipment in order to defend the freed areas. Since we did not receive any kind of this sophisticated arms we cannot defend the people from the barrel bombs thrown by the Assad regime. – Khaled Khoja	Found on CNN 9 years ago
In boxing, you have to keep your hands up in front of your face and upper torso to defend the blows, or hold them out in a defensive position, and all of that dramatically affects the rotator cuff tendons, it’s his punching shoulder, not his jab shoulder, but either one you have to be able to hit with both, which means you have to be able to extend it out there. – David Teuscher	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I think both he and his trainer, and the public, saw that he had altered his fighting style, and when you are in pain, you will change how you use that arm and that shoulder, in boxing, you have to keep your hands up in front of your face and upper torso to defend the blows, or hold them out in a defensive position, and all of that dramatically affects the rotator cuff tendons. – David Teuscher	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
(Pamela Geller can) draw any damn cartoon she wants and I defend her right to do so, i have always fought for her right to be a bigot and I have the right to counter her bigotry with my own free speech. – Linda Sarsour	Found on CNN 9 years ago
But we shouldn't judge from those two provinces what might happen in areas that are of higher strategic importance to the regime and its backers, for sure, the level of investment there and their capacity to defend those areas is going to be higher. – Noah Bonsey	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Nobody is blaming the current German population for the Nazi genocide. It was blamed on Hitler's politics and vision. Similarly while it is widely accepted that the Armenian genocide is the result of the politics of C.U.P in that period, we find it clearly unacceptable to turn back on the Armenians and to put the current Turkish and Kurdish population subject to such suspicions and into a position to defend itself. (Referring to acts of Committee of Union and Progress which was the de-facto ruler of Ottoman Empire during events of mass killings and deportations of Armenians.) – Selahattin Demirtas	added by okean 9 years ago

There will be a phase until 2017 where we have limited growth ... and where we need to defend our position.

– Michael Horn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We remain committed to our aim of visiting Leopoldo Lopez, we are here to defend democracy and until now the Venezuelan government has shown little appreciation of it.

– Aecio Neves

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I have 10 cupboards full of documents to defend myself, i'm glad the trial will take place in Genoa. It is not easy to transport all of that material ... I was expecting this anyway and we're going to have fun at the trial.

– Giovanni Berneschi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We'll continue to defend our human rights so that people inside and outside Peru can hear, and know, that our rights were violated, that we suffered, and that this really did happen.

– Esperanza Huayama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We have to decide how we defend ourselves and when it is time to intervene in a country and when maybe intervening makes things worse.

– Rand Paul

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Most of what's occurring is through organized crime, these are well-funded groups. They work Monday to Friday. They are probably better funded and better staffed than a lot people who are trying to defend against them.

– Caleb Barlow

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

What apparently happened was that the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight, they were not outnumbered. In fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force, and yet they failed to fight, they withdrew from the site, and that says to me, and I think to most of us, that we have an issue with the will of the Iraqis to fight ISIL and defend themselves.

– Defense Secretary Ash Carter

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Probably they are talking about private debts, but at the same time they are hinting that they aren't prepared to pay off the debts of the (former Ukrainian president Viktor) Yanukovich government, if it is actually formulated in this way this would undoubtedly be a default of Ukraine ... We would adopt as tough a position as possible in this case and defend our national interests.

– Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If it is actually formulated in this way this would undoubtedly be a default of Ukraine ... We would adopt as tough a position as possible in this case and defend our national interests.

– Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

My life experience in the military, I was so proud of it, to defend the territory of South Sudan.

– Ngor Mayol

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Whoever goes for Diosdado goes for us, goes for me. We're going to defend him, we can't accept it.

– Nicolas Maduro

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The governor made the position very clear that any Iraqi who wishes to defend Iraq is welcome to do so, provided that they are fighting under the Iraqi banner and under the command and control of the Iraqi official security forces.

– Muhannad Haimour

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The NAACP would defend Mrs. Gordeuk's right as a private citizen to free speech, however, those entrusted with responsibility for our children must set a high standard marked by civility. That is obviously a test the former principal failed.

– Francys Johnson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If they can deploy an operational submarine that could launch ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads, it would give them a pretty credible second strike capability, and it's difficult to defend against, it would give them the kind of deterrent that they have said they wish to have.

– Daniel Pinkston

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There were three or four marches in different places in the village, they were…chanting: ‘With our souls and blood, we will defend you, oh Islam! We will not leave you; we will take revenge for you!

– Ashraf Salah

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

They were…chanting: ‘With our souls and blood, we will defend you, oh Islam! We will not leave you; we will take revenge for you!

– Ashraf Salah

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

For me, this is something so important. I’m a teacher. And I’m not going to mess with the minds of these kids. I want to help them. I always tell them to be proud of their ideas and defend them. If you have an idea from the right or the left, learn what it is and be able to defend it.

– Jennifer Knesbach

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The Houthis are now targeting the borders of the kingdom and the situation is that we will defend our citizens, coalition forces will deliver a harsh response starting this moment, so that those who carried out this operation will pay the price.

– Ahmed Asseri

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's very weak support, what we need is to have our own military equipment in order to defend the freed areas. Since we did not receive any kind of this sophisticated arms we cannot defend the people from the barrel bombs thrown by the Assad regime.

– Khaled Khoja

Found on CNN
9 years ago

In boxing, you have to keep your hands up in front of your face and upper torso to defend the blows, or hold them out in a defensive position, and all of that dramatically affects the rotator cuff tendons, it’s his punching shoulder, not his jab shoulder, but either one you have to be able to hit with both, which means you have to be able to extend it out there.

– David Teuscher

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I think both he and his trainer, and the public, saw that he had altered his fighting style, and when you are in pain, you will change how you use that arm and that shoulder, in boxing, you have to keep your hands up in front of your face and upper torso to defend the blows, or hold them out in a defensive position, and all of that dramatically affects the rotator cuff tendons.

– David Teuscher

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

(Pamela Geller can) draw any damn cartoon she wants and I defend her right to do so, i have always fought for her right to be a bigot and I have the right to counter her bigotry with my own free speech.

– Linda Sarsour

Found on CNN
9 years ago

But we shouldn't judge from those two provinces what might happen in areas that are of higher strategic importance to the regime and its backers, for sure, the level of investment there and their capacity to defend those areas is going to be higher.

– Noah Bonsey

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Nobody is blaming the current German population for the Nazi genocide. It was blamed on Hitler's politics and vision. Similarly while it is widely accepted that the Armenian genocide is the result of the politics of C.U.P in that period, we find it clearly unacceptable to turn back on the Armenians and to put the current Turkish and Kurdish population subject to such suspicions and into a position to defend itself. (Referring to acts of Committee of Union and Progress which was the de-facto ruler of Ottoman Empire during events of mass killings and deportations of Armenians.)

– Selahattin Demirtas

added by okean
9 years ago

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