In a 2004 interview with columnist Hal Bodley of USA TODAY, Colangelo defended his actions:

It defended the A & E target by pointing out that the percentage of people waiting 4 hours or more in A & E had dropped from just under 25 percent in 2004 to less than 2 percent in 2008.

Jazz critics Gunther Schuller ( 1991 ) and Gary Giddins ( 2004 ) have separately defended the Miller orchestra for whatever deficiencies earlier critics have found.

In late 2004, Kramnik successfully defended his title against challenger Péter Lékó in a drawn match played in Brissago, Switzerland.

When company chairman Pete Coors was criticized for the company's gay-friendly policy during his 2004 Republican primary campaign for one of the US Senate seats from Colorado, he defended the policy as basic good business practice.

On December 11, 2004, he successfully defended his title, beating former world champion Randall Bailey by knockout in the sixth round, as part of the Vitali Klitschko-Danny Williams undercard in Las Vegas.

On April 24, 2004, Arce successfully defended his title in a rematch against former champ Melchor Cob Castro in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas.

Former Secretary of Defense Cohen defended, in his testimony to the 9 / 11 Commission in 2004, along with other cited Clinton security cabinet members in their separate 9 / 11 Commission testimony, the decision to destroy Al Shifa: " At the time, the intelligence community at the highest level repeatedly assured us that " it never gets better than this " in terms of confidence in an intelligence conclusion regarding a hard target.

Nicolae Cajal, a Romanian Jewish member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences and the President of the Jewish Communities ' Federation of Romania from 1994 to 2004, defended recognition of Paulescu's scientific work, saying there is a need to distinguish between individuals ' private views and their scientific merit and that his father, a student of Paulescu, had admired Paulescu for his scientific skills though he disagreed ( as a Jew ) with Paulescu's anti-Semitic views.

As premier, Yu defended the administration's position on the peace referendum and promoted a NT $ 610. 8 billion arms procurement package in 2004.

The accuracy of MEMRI's translations are considered " usually accurate " though occasionally disputed and highly selective in what it chooses to translate and in which context it puts things, as in the case of MEMRI's translation of a 2004 Osama bin Laden video, which MEMRI defended.

Légaré defended the station ’ s freedom of speech and was elected on September 20, 2004, which raised the number of ADQ seats back to five.

Following the parliamentary election, which was held in March 2004, a report accused Sanhá of interfering in the election and thereby causing disorganization to worsen ; he defended himself by saying he had gotten involved " only after things began to go wrong ".

At a keynote speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research on 26 November 2004, Hodge strongly defended the idea of greater state regulation of individuals ' choices, stating that " some may call it the nanny state but I call it a force for good ".

Ellman is a member of Labour Friends of Israel, in March 2004 she defended Israeli assassination of Sheikh Yasin, the 66 year old spiritual leader of Hamas and told Parliament that “ Israel ’ s action in killing Sheikh Yasin was a legitimate response to an extraordinary situation ”.

He testified on January 28, 2004 that “ t turns out that we were all wrong ” and “ I believe that the effort that has been directed to this point has been sufficiently intense that it is highly unlikely that there were large stockpiles of deployed, militarized chemical weapons there .” However, Kay defended the Bush administration, saying that even if Iraq did not have weapons stockpiles, this did not mean the nation wasn't dangerous.

On February 28, 2004, he defended his North American Boxing Association lightweight title against Ricky Quiles at the Seminole Tribe of Florida Coconut Creek Casino.

On the March 4, 2004 edition of SmackDown !, during Guerrero's match with Heyman ( while he was handcuffed ), Angle interfered and knocked him down a few times until Guerrero defended himself by spitting on Angle.

When Kramnik defended his title at the Classical World Chess Championship 2004, he gave the title the name " Classical ", to emphasise the continuity that his title had with the tradition of defeating the previous titleholder.

Kaizer Chiefs successfully defended their league title in 2005 after they won the prestigious trophy in 2004 for the first time in a decade.

Robinson defended his candidacy in this district by saying he had several donors from the 13th in 2004 and that he was motivated by a desire to defeat Miller.

Vašek has since successfully defended his title five times, in Prague in 2003, Montreal in 2004, in Helsinki in 2005, in Frankfurt in 2006, and in Orlando in 2007.

In January 2004 at the Royal Rumble, Flair and Batista successfully defended the World Tag Team Championship against the Dudley Boyz in a Tables match, and World Heavyweight Champion Triple H fought Shawn Michaels to no contest in a Last Man Standing match, thus retaining the championship.

Gayle was named Player of the 2006 Champions Trophy, where the West Indies nearly defended the title which they won in 2004, being defeated in the final by Australia.

Although CBS and Rather defended the authenticity and usage of the documents for a two-week period, continued scrutiny from other news organizations and independent analysis of the documents obtained by USA Today and CBS raised questions about their validity and led to a public repudiation on September 20, 2004.

Apron VII used to hold just two Boeing 727s but has been able to park an additional three McDonnell Douglas MD-11s for FedEx since November 2004.

* Thursday, January 1, 2004 – FedEx Orange Bowl: # 9 Miami ( 10 – 2, Big East champion ) 16, # 7 Florida State ( 10 – 2, ACC champion ) 14

The Grizzlies played their home games at The Pyramid from 2001 until 2004, before moving to FedEx Forum for the 2004-05 season, and have called it home since then.

In 2004, the first ATR 42 put on Empire's certificate made the first ATR FedEx Feeder revenue flight.

FedEx SmartPost logoFedEx purchased the parcel consolidator Parcel Direct in September 2004 from Quad Graphics.

This FedEx Ground subsidiary was re-branded as FedEx SmartPost in October 2004.

When FedEx dropped sponsorship in 2004, the narration was altered to cut off after " Galaxy.

* Artemi, Eirini, « The mystery of the incarnation into dialogues " de incarnatione Unigenitii " and " Quod unus sit Christus " of St. Cyril of Alexandria », Ecclesiastic Faros of Alexandria, ΟΕ ( 2004 ), 145-277.

Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2004.

* 2004 – Harold Bernard St. John, Barbadian politician, ( b. 1931 )

2004: St. Martin's Griffin.

He is the second British architect to win the Stirling Prize twice: the first time for the American Air Museum at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in 1998, and the second for 30 St Mary Axe in 2004.

* 1997 – 2004, 30 St Mary Axe, Swiss Re London headquarters, London, UK

* 2004 – Major League Baseball: The Boston Red Sox complete a four-game sweep of the 2004 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, giving the team their first World Series championship since 1918.

After losing the conference championship in 2001 to the St. Louis Rams, in 2002 to the eventual Super Bowl Champions Tampa Bay Buccaneers and in 2003 to the Carolina Panthers, the Eagles advanced to Super Bowl XXXIX at the end of the 2004 season, where they lost to the New England Patriots, 24 – 21.

For the Astros, Clemens was the losing pitcher in game 7 of the 2004 NLCS against the St. Louis Cardinals, allowing 4 runs in 6 innings of work although he pitched well, he tired in the sixth inning surrendering all four runs.

She provided the likeness and voice for Serena St. Germaine in the 2004 video game, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing.

The Bank of St Helena, located next to the Post Office, commenced operations in 2004, inheriting the assets and accounts of the former St Helena Government Savings and the Ascension Island Savings Banks, both of which then ceased to exist.

Tourism recovered in 2004, following the post-11 September 2001 recession, and continued to grow in 2005, making up more than 48 % of St. Lucia's GDP.

St. Lucia is the headquarters of the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications ( ECTEL ) authority, which is developing the regulations to liberalize the telecommunications sector in the region by 2004.

Round 11, 2004 saw Sydney end the Saints ' undefeated start to that season, winning by 17. 10 ( 112 ) to St Kilda's 11. 10 ( 76 ), before St Kilda retaliated with a 51-point thrashing in the semi-finals that ended Sydney's season on a low note.

* Fine Arts Russian Academy, St. Petersburg, 2004

* St Clair, W. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004.

Ithaca, New York ; London: Cornell University Press, 1972 ( hardcover, ISBN 0-8014-0712-5 ); South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustines Press, 2004 ( paperback, ISBN 1-58731-966-7 ).

St. Martin's Press, 2004.

* Barlow, Frank, Edward ( St Edward ; known as Edward the Confessor ), Oxford Online Dictionary of National Biography, 2004

( Since the Lockerbie crash was a terrorist act in Scotland, the Staines crash remains England's worst air disaster, and Britain's worst air accident ). The crash was commemorated in June 2004, with the opening of a dedicated garden near the crash site, created at the request of relatives, and the unveiling of a stained glass window at St. Marys Church, where a memorial service was held.

The 1887 building was converted between 2000 and 2004 to a 53 unit condo in the Historic Lowertown District of St. Paul.

* Fisk was made an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of St Andrews on 24 June 2004.