Defending

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Robson's proposal is tantamount to defending terrorists because they have a cause.

She went out on a limb defending him, and now she has lost her job.

She's not here for the purpose of defending herself against these accusations.

Everyone knows that he's no saint. By defending him, we'd be accepting and encouraging his views.

Mary is defending human rights.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Defending their land has now become a sin?

We are defending the same cause.

I'm not defending him!