Morrell says such disagreements are all the more reason to have consistent contacts between the U.S.and Chinese military and defense establishments.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

All right. So with this said, it's probably time to say something in defense of the author.

好了，这么说来，差不多是时候,为作者的权威辩护了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Hobbes does not praise vigilance in defense of liberty and he denounces all efforts to resist the government.

霍布斯并非要,赞扬人民维护自由的警觉态度,而是要谴责那些反抗政府的徒劳之举。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The defense minister expresses hope all "arrangements,planning, rehearsals and exercises" will adequately secure all the nearly 29,000 voting sites.

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

And Dew wrote a forceful defense of slavery in the wake of this, which became kind of a seminal text for all future pro-slavery writers.

此后后德夫为维护奴隶制写了一份有力的辩护,这份辩护被所有后来的亲奴主义作家,尊为一部文献

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

All that is in General McChrystal's plan. Last week,Defense Secretary Robert Gates appealed for patience as the administration works through the issue.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Gates told Asian defense officials they were all familiar with North Korea's tactic of creating a crisis and then demanding payment to end the crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

British Defense Secretary Bob Ainsworth said in the House of Commons that government is doing all it can to adequately protect troops in Afghanistan and he promised more assets would be moved into the theater of operation, but he underlined the mission will remain dangerous.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates. "There is a general feeling I could say that with all these additional troops and all these additional efforts that everybody is making to get to the elections in Afghanistan, to have a free and fair election and then see over the next months whether we can begin to shift the momentum,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.11