Or if you prefer, how silly it acts in defence of some national amour propre.
In defence of the bosses, they do face some risks along with their high pay.
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Both thought the Clinton administration had been timid, if not craven, in defence of American interests.
It was unfortunate enough for Mr Hague that she wanted to speak in defence of Augusto Pinochet.
Now Mr Bernstein has returned to the fray with a new volume in defence of his academic heroes.
So Mr Obama is right again along with other Western leaders to speak out forcefully in defence of the opposition.
No central bank would want to commit itself to squandering its reserves in defence of another country's shaky currency.
What if the Communists pour out into the streets in defence of Lenin?
Monsignor Dooley's comments came as he spoke in defence of Cardinal Sean Brady.
But some good points can be made in defence of the Gates approach.
Sidebottom (3-33) and Charlie Shreck (3-62) were the main men for Notts in defence of their total of 388.
Mr Willetts also issued "a small plea" in defence of the chancellor .
"I was proud to see my country strike with an iron fist in defence of its national sovereignty, " he says.
An unenviable task, then, for the American diplomats who face the task of arguing back in defence of old-fashioned libertarianism.
India's small shopkeepers, often slow at the till, have been quick to man the barricades in defence of their turf.
That the police have begun waving their truncheons in defence of their privileged pay and conditions of service is unsurprising.
You would expect the ordinary soldier to be fiercer in defence of his homeland than he was in defence of Kuwait.
They have already made common cause on land sales, shouting and singing patriotic songs in parliament in defence of the soil.
Given the current level of sinophobia in Congress, the Bush team has, so far, stood remarkably firm in defence of free trade.
That argument is the best anyone can make in defence of the ever-widening array of punitive measures applied to the world's pariahs.
Half the continent is a battlefield covering the bones of those who died in defence of competing values (all those wars of religion).
Mr Rennie is also expected to stress the positive, saying that the Lib Dems' remain "resolute" in defence of the interests of hard-working families.
In defence of Mr Chubais, most of the advance was to have gone to a foundation controlled by the reformers, not straight into their pockets.
Even the al-Shareef recantation, like those of the Jamaa Islamiya, seems to accept the legitimacy in principle of violent jihad in defence of the faith.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has been called Frau Nein - an unbending leader of Germany, unwilling to risk her taxpayers' money in defence of the euro.
It is often said in defence of Iran's nuclear appetite that this is a country with good reason to want a way to deter its enemies.
These delicate calculations are a long way from the early days of John Paul's papacy, when the Vatican and America were aligned in defence of Polish freedom.
The fury of Egypt's secular intellectuals was particularly sharp, since Mr Hosny had spoken up in defence of freedom of expression amid a similar fracas last year.
Senator McCain also promises to use the power of veto in defence of the public interest - and as a chief executive, I can assure you it works.
Hamas took to the streets in Nablus in defence of Mr Masri and, on December 5th, five of the eight signatories still in jail began a hunger strike.
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