11.   Afterward, police defended their use of pepper spray, rubber bullets and other anti-riot weaponry although no riot had occurred.

12.   Alex Castellanos, the producer of the Dole advertisement, defended the use of the MTV interview.

13.   Bush also defended the use of the death penalty in Texas, saying he believes it deters crime.

14.   But a day earlier at a stop in Del Rio, Texas, Meissner defended the use of soldiers to bolster Border Patrol drug-interdiction efforts.

15.   Burns, a law professor from Vancouver, British Columbia, firmly defended the use of such information.

16.   But Bergeron defended the use of secret evidence and cited the approval of the practice under certain conditions by federal courts over four decades.

17.   But Clinton defended his use of troops to save lives in Somalia, as well as Bosnia, and to restore democracy in Haiti.

18.   But his associate, Roger Saunders, defended the use of the statistical data concerning Hispanic inmates.

19.   But placing the blame on quickie theme speeches is unfair, said House Republican Conference spokesman John Czwartacki, who defended the use of scripted remarks.

20.   But Tracy defended the use of Mulholland on Tuesday at the end of a blowout victory against Montreal.