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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
Fedor Emelianenko
Best
Training
Honor
Important
Every
Favorite
Favorite Thing
Athlete
Able
Give
Performing
Motherland
Very
Engage
Thing
Competitions
Defending
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.
Frans de Waal
Other
Wild
Say
Consoling
Distressed
Embraces
Tender
Spontaneous
Well
Well Known
Known
Offer
Against
Ape
Companions
Each
Assistance
Defending
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.
George Grosz
Best
Game
Fight
Stupidity
Own
Bitter
Bitter End
My Own
Brutality
Could
Beat
Self
Simply
Ideals
Course
End
Up
Did
Manage
Stood
Disgusting
Which
Them
Beliefs
Defending
The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.
Giulio Douhet
Enemy
Power
Own
Speed
Air
Destroy
Possible
Territory
Greatest
Method
Effective
Offensive
Defending
The American national security state is totally bipartisan. My biggest problem is with the Democrats, like Feinstein and Pelosi, who are defending it because there is a Democrat in the White House, and they are party loyalists and hacks before they are public servants.
Glenn Greenwald
Problem
Party
National
Before
White
White House
State
Security
Totally
Like
Democrat
House
Because
Democrats
American
National Security
Biggest
Public
Biggest Problem
Who
Public Servants
Servants
Bipartisan
Defending
I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Good
Conversation
Political
Amazing
Matter
Spend
Because
Political Agenda
Still
America
Place
Fantastic
Agenda
Portion
Defending
Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.
Hussein of Jordan
Peace
Reality
People
Overwhelming
Believe
Security
Never
Majority
Without
Really
Working
Believing
Defending
I feel great, and I'll happily continue to be at Vicente del Bosque's disposal, because defending my country is very important to me.
Iker Casillas
Great
Me
Country
Important
Feel
Because
Continue
Very
Happily
Disposal
Defending
I am much more interested in defending my ideas than defending my identities.
Ilhan Omar
More
Ideas
Identities
Am
Than
Interested
Much
Defending
Israel is now sustaining a war for its own existence. A nation defending its citizens against terrorist bombings and a military and diplomatic onslaught by an array of Arab foes is practicing survival, not genocide.
Jack Schwartz
War
Survival
Genocide
Nation
Own
Military
Arab
Foes
Citizens
Diplomatic
Practicing
Terrorist
Array
Israel
Existence
Sustaining
Against
Now
Defending
If someone says something to me, I am not going to back down. Whether it's defending myself or standing up for one of my teammates, that is the way I play the game.
James Anderson
Myself
Me
Game
Down
Teammates
Back
Way
Says
Someone
Something
Am
Up
Going
Whether
Standing
Standing Up
Play
Defending
We have created thousands and thousands of places in America that aren't worth caring about, and when we have enough of them, we're going to have a country that's not worth defending.
James Howard Kunstler
Worth
Country
Enough
Caring
Thousands
About
America
Going
Places
Them
Created
Defending
With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.
Jeff Miller
War
Terrorism
Women
Men
Men And Women
Nation
Our
Resources
Properly
Abroad
Allocated
Line
Front
Front Line
Against
Homeland
Need
Defending
Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.
Jill Lepore
Cake
Damning
Piece
Them
Taxes
Hard
Defending
English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.
Jim Crace
Politics
More
Concerned
Than
Much
English
Defending
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
Jock Sturges
Myself
Good
Concerned
Became
As Far As
Transient
Far
Skill
Defending
When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending.
Johan Cruyff
Control
Back
Way
Press
Ball
Get
Defending
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
John Boorman
Good
You
Defensive
Than
Get
Being
Good Acting
Acting
Less
Actor
Defending
Position
We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.
John Frame
God
Conservative
Liberty
Holding
Christian
Liberal
Our
Rule
Worship
Those
Must
More
Both
Students
Most
Commands
Than
Scripture
Who
Apply
Defending
They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.
John Hume
Argument
Own
Thinking
Type
Out
Date
Had
Put
Ireland
Irish
Them
Interests
Use
Therefore
Believed
Right
Violence
Britain
Defending
Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.
Johnny Ramone
Time
Too Much
Too
Too Much Time
Spend
Never
Over
Stick
Up
Anyone
Happen
Republicans
Them
Themselves
Much
Defending
I AM what is called a Feminist. Thirty years ago I left a monastery and began a sane human existence. Within two or three years, I find, I was defending the rights of women.
Joseph McCabe
Rights
Women
Three
Thirty
Find
Within
Am
Feminist
Years
Years Ago
Existence
Left
Began
Human
Human Existence
Sane
Monastery
Two
Defending
No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.
Judy Biggert
War
Terrorism
Law
Nation
Fighting
Our
Would
Would-Be
Easy
Law Enforcement
Troops
No-One
Support
Support Our Troops
Days
Come
Mission
Safe
Said
Years
Children
Against
Workers
Enforcement
Homeland
Keep
Ever
Defending
Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?
Judy Woodruff
This Administration
Administration
Clinton
Clinton Administration
Needed
Defending
I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.
Kathleen Turner
Good
Women
Hate
Stage
Through
Likable
Go
End
Up
Often
Essentially
Where
Loving
Them
Then
Who
Play
Defending
So long as Trump says the right things at the right time to the right crowds, he'll never be held accountable for his doublespeak or for defending the very things the conservative movement has been fighting against for years.
Katie Pavlich
Time
Conservative
Long
Fighting
Right Things
Right Time
Says
Has-Been
Crowds
Never
He
Been
His
Years
Trump
Very
Accountable
Movement
Against
Held
Right
Things
Defending
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