One week after Clay first proposed the compromise, he rose in the Senate to speak in its defense.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Now turning to your sheet, in the early, early modern period the poet and courtier, Sir Philip Sidney, wrote an elegant, really wonderfully written defense of poetry, in one edition called The Apology for Poesie.

现在回到发给你们的材料上来，英国，伊丽莎白时期的朝臣及诗人，西德尼，曾写过很多很多，优美的诗歌，全部收录在一本名为《诗辩》的集子里。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Now one of the books that will be assigned for the class is by Michael Pollan called, In Defense of Food, and he spends some time in that book discussing and he has a very interesting take on it.

这门课要布置给你们阅读的书中,有一本是迈克尔·鲍兰写的,为食物辩护,书中的部分内容,是讨论何为食物,他的某些见解很独到

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But on defense, he became one of the most feared shot-blockers in the league.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

One of the defense lawyers recognized that the job was hopeless.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Simmons helped identify one of the highest-ranking Cuban spies in recent history, Ana Belen Montes who worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency.

VOA: standard.2009.06.06

"Anytime you have a high-profile case, as this one is,concerns about a fair and impartial jury will be present in any defense counsel's mind."

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Kasab was the only one captured alive. The defense had said that, if the plea was accepted, the trial should end and a sentence delivered.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

One of the leaders of the Obama strategy review team, Under Secretary of Defense Michele Flournoy, says expectations of a more limited strategy were based on a misunderstanding.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

The NATO move is in response to last year's spy scandal in Estonia in which one of that country's defense officials was jailed for passing alliance secrets to Moscow.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that while no one expects the world will achieve the goal of "zero nuclear weapons" anytime soon, the new treaty is a major step toward greater security with fewer nuclear weapons: "It is clear that we can accomplish goals with fewer nuclear weapons."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26