1.   You have a defender, you have an offensive player.

2.   Although in the poorest black settlements she is revered as a patron of the downtrodden, she has few defenders any more among her comrades in the liberation movement.

3.   And he has defenders among prosecutors who say that his methods were standard procedure for federal criminal investigations.

4.   As powerful women, however, they have few defenders.

5.   Bloomberg also had his defenders.

6.   Alomar had defenders, teammates willing to point to his better instincts.

7.   But Arnell has strong defenders at the agency.

8.   But as of Wednesday, Samaranch still had his defenders.

9.   But blockbusters have their defenders.

10.   But Farrakhan has his defenders, among them Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., the former executive director of the NAACP, who helped organize the Million Man March.