21.   But he is quick to defend his position.

22.   But he seemed tonight to mean things, like when he defended his position on the death penalty.

23.   But so long as test scores kept going up, Crew felt that he could defend his position.

24.   But while Bush firmly defended his positions, he reached no consensus with other leaders, from British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Russian President Vladimir V. Putin.

25.   Canadian officials said they had not yet been informed of the American decision to act on the dispute, but would defend their position before the World Trade Organization.

26.   Chinese leaders are never called on to defend their positions to the Chinese public, let alone to an American public watching half a world away.

27.   Clinton defended his position.

28.   Defending that position in a letter to Western leaders last month, Mbeki likened condemnation of that dissident view on AIDS treatment to persecution by the Spanish Inquisition.

29.   Diet centers defend their position by noting that customers who use the drugs must agree to frequent follow-up medical evaluations.

30.   Dole questioned whether they were, and has spent two weeks defending that position.