(n.) One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Abbott’s few remaining apologists in the domestic media have vaingloriously announced today that our prime minister is putting the mighty US “on notice” about tax evasion.
(2) But now people are thinking about the public school elites, aristocracy, City of London investment bankers, corporate lobbyists, and the imperialist warmongers, apologists and conspirators in the media, not as instruments of good government and a healthy democracy, but as dangerous impediments to it.
(3) But as the night echoed with chants denouncing Taliban apologists as traitors,some in the crowd quietly admitted their doubts.
(4) AQA's apologists, staggering out of the committee rooms in which these bizarre choices have been hatched, will no doubt contest that one criterion for their selection is that the works should be eminently "teachable" i.e.
(5) The only question is how long can its apologists hold out, as costs soar and supporters slip away in the night.
(6) Even the most ardent Kobe apologist cannot deny that he committed an aggressive act of infidelity and made himself look terrible in his initial statements to police, where he lamented not simply paying off his alleged victim.
(7) John Hall Bristol It is hardly surprising that people such as Chris Patten have turned into apologists for the EU when they were shunted off to the Brussels gravy train - yet they still seem to think we want to hear their views (Grandees turn on Cameron over plans for EU, 30 May).
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Mann calls Ken Livingstone a ‘Nazi apologist’ Ken Livingstone was doing his usual schtick in the London Evening Standard this week, defending Shah .
(9) It’s not just talking about how much you love and respect your wife, or, in the case of all the Tony Abbott apologists, how he’s surrounded by strong women.
(10) Sources consulted include publications from inside and outside the country, by apologists for and opponents of the regime, and a variety of commentators.
(11) The favorite cry of US government apologists -– everyone spies!
(12) But so, in a more profound way, have both the apologists and critics of western capitalism.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Mann calls Ken Livingstone a ‘Nazi apologist’ As in all groups of people, down every street and in every office in the land, the Labour party contains a fool with ill-informed views who likes to be a bit controversial.
(14) Having written about these matters many times before, I know exactly how some people reflexively try to radically distort the argument beyond recognition in order to smear you as a Terror apologist, a Terrorist-lover or worse, all for the thought crime of raising these issues.
(15) Hearing only from dedicated NSA apologists as witnesses: that's "oversight" for Dianne Feinstein and her oversight Committee.
(16) Pearce is no apologist for the looting, as her YouTube performance showed, but she is in no doubt about some of the issues around her, the way young men feel trapped: "The problem here is that you are born and you come out of hospital and you are brought to the estate and you hardly ever leave it after that.
(17) The Good Life launched him on a much more varied theatre diet, including Ibsen's The Wild Duck at the Lyric, Hammersmith, in 1980; George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man (his was a richly nuanced, physical performance as the battle-weary Bluntschli) in 1981; Ray Cooney's Run for Your Wife (as a bigamous taxi driver, with Bernard Cribbins as his "cover" and apologist) in 1983; and Sir John Vanbrugh's The Relapse at Chichester in 1986, as the hilarious chatterbox Lord Foppington.
(18) Since the coalition government came to power in 2010, immunity to reason has been obligatory among Trident apologists.
(19) You certainly shouldn’t be on Labour’s national executive.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Mann calls Ken Livingstone a ‘Nazi apologist’ It is the second time Livingstone has been suspended from Labour; the first being when he put himself forward as an independent candidate for the London mayoralty in 2000.
(20) Police state apologists will try to sell fear, even though “20 years of falling crime and aggressive policing means that police violence – justified or otherwise – now appears to be a much larger share of all violence,” as Harry Siegel wrote in the New York Daily News .
Defender
Definition:
(n.) One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(2) "What has made that worse is the disingenuous way the force has defended their actions.
(3) It arguably became too comfortable for Rodgers' team, with complacency and slack defending proving a dangerous brew.
(4) Joe, meanwhile, defends her right to say "negro" whenever she wants.
(5) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(6) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(7) After an introductory note on primary preventive intervention of breast cancer during adulthood, the author defends and extends a hypothesis that relates most of the known risk factors for this disease to the development of preneoplastic lesions in the breast.
(8) Defendants on legal aid will no longer be able to choose their solicitor.
(9) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(10) In mitigation, Gareth Jones, defending, said: "The first comment [he] wrote was in relation to Fabrice Muamba.
(11) "The Texas attorney general's office will continue to defend the Texas legislature's decision to prohibit abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving taxpayer dollars through the Women's Health Program."
(12) The philosopher defended his actions by referring to Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic violence, naturally enough, but it didn't wash with HR.
(13) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
(14) Free speech has protected hate speech, and opponents of censorship have consistantly defended the rights of unscrupulous populists and incendiarists.
(15) "You could understand why I need another central defender," Mourinho said afterwards.
(16) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
(17) Abe Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, a vigorous defender of Israel, called the speech “ill-advised”.
(18) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
(19) "I never expected to get 100 caps and have the reception I did," said the Chelsea defender.
(20) He is shadow home secretary and will have to defend himself.