Boccaccio, like he does in the introduction of the fourth day, defends his work against detractors.

* http :// www. time. com / time / community / transcripts / chattr070198. html-A debate transcript where Lott defends his work.

Apple defends the decision by saying that extensions have become the de facto standard for indicating file type, and they need to work seamlessly with the rest of the industry.

His most important work, Rosh Amanah (" The Pinnacle of Faith "), defends Maimonides ' thirteen articles of belief against attacks of Hasdai Crescas and Yosef Albo.

Contemporary left communist theory defends that Lenin was mistaken on his definition of imperialism ( although how grave his mistake was and how much of his work on imperialism is valid varies from groups to groups ) and Rosa Luxemburg to be basically correct on this question, thus accepting capitalism as a world epoch similarly to Lenin, but a world epoch from which no capitalist state can oppose or avoid being a part of.

In his major work Tafsir al-Kabir, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi defends ideas of heliocentrism with only difference that the Sun is not mentioned as a static object or as a centre of the Universe:

Hide acknowledges the criticism, but defends himself on the grounds that a focus on pure economic theory will not attract interest: " the problem is that the so-called stunts are particularly well-reported and my work explaining free market ideas disappears without trace.

Apologeticus or Apologeticum is Tertullian's most famous work, consisting of apologetic and polemic ; In this work Tertullian defends Christianity, demanding legal toleration and that Christians be treated as all other sects of the Roman Empire.

He also defends a reading of Frege, derived in part from Michael Dummett's work, according to which Frege's notion of sense is not equivalent to a description, and indeed remains essential to a theory of reference that abandoned descriptivism ( 1982, § 1. 3 ).

While working at the base organization, a student prepares a thesis based on his or her research work and presents (" defends ") it before the Qualification Committee consisting of both MIPT faculty and the base organization staff.

He initially defends his own work, but later comes up with his own idea of how to improve the housing blocks by the addition of glass and artworks.

Robinson defends his work by stating that the truth of " faults and deficiencies " only enhances admiration for the courage and resilience of RAF pilots.

Shelley's own introduction to the play explains his intentions behind the work and he defends the artistic freedom he has taken in his adaptation of Aeschylus ' myth:

Ibn Rushd ( Averroes ) wrote a refutation of Al-Ghazali's work entitled The Incoherence of the Incoherence ( Tahāfut al-Tahāfut ) in which he defends the doctrines of the philosophers and criticizes al-Ghazali's own arguments.

The " Belaya Rus '" Slavic Council was founded in June 1992 as a conservative Russophile group that defends Russian interests in all spheres of social life, vociferously objects to the status of Belarusian as the republic's sole official language, and demands equal status for the Russian language.

* Antiphon defends himself in a speech Thucydides describes as the greatest ever made by a man on trial for his life.

Condom World defends itself against those groups by claiming that their aim is for people to have safe sex and a happier couple life.

Adult numbats are solitary and territorial ; an individual male or female establishes a territory of up to 1. 5 square kilometres ( 370 acres ) early in life, and defends it from others of the same sex.

" The party defends " individual freedom, and promotes people ’ s opportunities to make choices, but without ignoring everyone ’ s responsibility for their own life, others, and the environment.

The Catholic League states that it " defends the right of Catholics – lay and clergy alike – to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination.

; Frank Gulcher ( Jim Lally ): A crossing guard who defends the crosswalk with his life, abiding by " the code of the crosswalk ".

Sharpe defends Wellesley against several Maratha horsemen and so saves the general's life, receiving a battlefield promotion for this act of bravery.

Libertarian thinker Tibor Machan defends negative liberty as " required for moral choice and, thus, for human flourishing ," claiming that it " is secured when the rights of individual members of a human community to life, to voluntary action ( or to liberty of conduct ), and to property are universally respected, observed, and defended.

Having made it clear that idealism depends upon postulates and proceeds hypothetically, Royce defends the necessity of objective reference of our ideas to a universal whole within which they belong, for without these postulates, “ both practical life and the commonest results of theory, from the simplest impressions to the most valuable beliefs, would be for most if not all of us utterly impossible .” ( see The Religious Aspect of Philosophy, p. 324 ) The justification for idealistic postulates is practical ( a point Royce made repeatedly in his maturity, accepting the label of " pragmatist " for himself, to the extent that it embraced practical life as the guide and determiner of the value of philosophical ideas.

Bakker's raptors are shown as monogamous, relatively intelligent and social creatures, an assertion he defends, saying " the life of dinosaurian hunters was hard.

At the peril of his life Lamoni verbally defends Ammon.

* " You may don a thousand masks, change your name and your religion and your mode of life, creep through the world incognito so that nobody notices that you are a Jew yet every insult to the Jewish name will wound you more than a man of honour who remains loyal to his family and defends his good name.

He defends his actions, saying the planet offers valuable medical benefits — not only are the people immune to the disease, but they also have incredibly long life spans.

Though long suspected of being a spy for Queen Nakia or her birth kingdom of Babylonia, she has no intention of being a pawn of Nakia or Urhi, as she is genuinely in love with Mattiwaza, and even defends him with her life ( which ultimately saves Mattiwaza and Yuri themselves as well ).

The eastern chipmunk defends its burrow and lives a solitary life, except during mating season.

Kevin defends himself but seems to lose his life, when, on the verge of dying, his werewolf abilities awake ; unfortunately, they come at the cost of Karl's life.

The Catholic Church defends the right of life for all persons from conception to natural death.

Each book contains different perspectives of describing her life during the 1960s and, in particular, the groupie scene, which Des Barres's book, Let's Spend the Night Together ( 2007 ), a collection of interviews with fellow rock groupies, ( 2007 ) defends.

It stresses that the citizen has the right to expect the highest level of professionalism and performance from the military that defends it, and to that end, the military, particularly Mechwarriors, owe to the populace a life of endless training and campaigning.

Compare this statement of a nineteenth-century judge with how Congressman Martin, according to the Daily Labor Report of Sept. 19, 1961, defends the necessity of enacting anti-trust legislation in the field of labor `` if we wish to prevent monopolistic fixing of wages, production or prices and if we wish to preserve the freedom of the employer and his employees to contract on wages, hours and conditions of employment ''.

The film promotes and defends Fidel Castro and includes two interviews with the Comandante.

Their most common social unit is that of a monogamous pair which defends its territory from other pairs by vigorously chasing intruding rivals and marking landmarks around the territory with their urine and feces.

The god Tyr defends Freyr, to which Loki replies that Tyr should be silent, for Tyr cannot " deal straight with people ," and points out that it was Loki's son, the wolf Fenrir, who tore Tyr's hand off.

Both Pork Chop Hill and Shangganling depict a single battle in which a small dedicated unit defends a small holdout with very little hope of reprieve.

* September 22 – Paraguay successfully defends Curupaity against the Triple Alliance in the Paraguayan War, killing more than 5, 000 with just about 50 casualties.

* Ivor Morgan, Huw's eldest brother, marries Bronwen, sides with the father against the strike, defends Angharad against Iestin Evan's initial familiarity.

* Saint Ambrose defends the rights of the Catholic Church with respect to those of the State.

In the preface to Book 5, Socrates defends dealing with Arianism and with political events in addition to writing about the church.

Federalist, in regard to the National Question, defends the concept of Quebec remaining within Canada, while either keeping the status quo or pursuing greater autonomy and constitutional recognition of a Quebec nation, with corresponding rights and powers for Quebec within the Canadian federation.

* 1808 – John Dalton defends caloric theory in A New System of Chemistry and describes how it combines with matter, especially gases ; he proposes that the heat capacity of gases varies inversely with atomic weight

Landing on the north-west of the island with a small mercenary force, he seizes a strong position on Mount Ercte ( Monte Pellegrino, near Palermo ), and not only successfully defends himself against all attacks, but also carries his raids as far as the coast of southern Italy.

When Jocelyn defends herself during an argument with William by saying, " Better a silly girl with a flower than a silly boy with a horse and a stick ," an offended Wat calls after her, " It's called a lance ...

He tries to strangle Margot with a scarf, but she defends herself with a pair of scissors, killing him.

For example, Grace Eckley argues that Wakean characters are distinct from each other, and defends this with explaining the dual narrators, the " us " of the first paragraph, as well as Shem-Shaun distinctions while Margot Norris argues that the " haracters are fluid and interchangeable ".

In Conversations with Professor Y ( 1955 ) Céline defends his style, indicating that his heavy use of the ellipsis and his disjointed sentences are an attempt to embody human emotion in written language.

Critic Roger Ebert wrote an article entitled, " Attacks on ' Roger & Me ' completely miss point of film " that defends Moore's manipulation of his film's timeline as an artistic and stylistic choice that has less to do with his credibility as a filmmaker and more to do with the flexibility of film as a medium to express a viewpoint using the same methods that satirists have used.

For example, if Black defends with 1 ... Bxh7, the d5 square is no longer guarded, and White mates with 2. Nd5 #.