No one defends the actions of Roethlisberger, but they wonder what is next.

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One defends the freedom and rights of the English Church, another relates to the privileges enjoyed by the City of London and the third - the most famous - is generally held to have etablished the right to trial by jury.

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Yet Mr Stillman, for one, defends his countryman.

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Yet Angkarb Korsieporn, a demographer at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University, says that of ten government departments with an interest in the issue, only one, the fisheries ministry, defends the advantages the migrants bring.

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Johnson will be one of the support acts when Ricky Burns defends his WBO super-featherweight title at Braehead Arena against Andreas Evensen on 4 December.

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Anschutz's spokesman defends his allergic reaction to publicity: If the guy gave one interview, the requests would never let up.

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Karl Hofstetter, a professor of law at Zurich University and one of the authors of the Swiss takeover rules, defends the discrepancy on the grounds that many Swiss firms are controlled by families.

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One reason is their century-old secular tradition, which fiercely defends the separation of faith and state, and makes most French people uneasy about conspicuous religion.

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One firm has been brought in a partner from a national law firm that regularly defends them to argue against forensic audits.

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