1.   But Knight defended his tactics, noting that the Assembly measure repealing the ban was never allowed to come up for a Senate committee vote.

2.   In a brief meeting with reporters on Thursday, Starr defended his tactics.

3.   In a news conference after the verdicts were announced, Cochran defended his tactics, and the role race played in the trial.

4.   Jopling defends such tactics.

5.   Officials here have defended their tactics, noting that it was not a hostage situation and suggesting that an ill-timed assault might have caused even more deaths.

6.   The militant organizations responsible for most of the suicide attacks, groups that have rejected peace with Israel, defended their tactics and said the bombings would continue.

7.   Weissler defended his tactics, saying that January, usually a bad box office month, was not a good time to move.

8.   Player Alain Sutter defended the tactics.

9.   Cuban exiles defended their tactics.

10.   Israel has defended its tactics as a means of self-defense that limits civilian casualties.