1.   He forestalled critics by offering a defense of the project.

2.   Biekert offers stout defense against the run, clogging the middle against running backs such as Davis.

3.   Bush also continued to attack Gore on Social Security, even as he offered a defense against new criticism of his own proposal to fix the retirement benefit system.

4.   But David also knew, his brother writes, that a trial in which an insanity defense was offered would be too agonizing for Theodore to bear.

5.   Clancy offered no defense for his rebounding.

6.   Corneau has chosen to reject legal help and offered no defense during her hearing.

7.   Defenses are offered.

8.   Democrats in Congress are offering no defense of President Clinton as he struggles against one accusation of improper campaign fund-raising after another.

9.   Gore, during his Michigan stop, also offered a defense, on the eve of Earth Day, of his reputation as an ardent environmentalist.

10.   He wants to offer no defense in a sentencing retrial, denying the existence of reports on his illness that could be grounds for sparing his life.