31.   In his news conference, Clinton also defended his policies toward China and the Middle East.

32.   In the past, the Publishers Association has lobbied to maintain the Net Book Agreement and has defended its policies against legal challenges by government agencies.

33.   Instead of defending these policies, the State Department should be working to eliminate them.

34.   In the wake of the diplomatic wrangling, administration officials defended their policy toward Iraq.

35.   Instead, he defended his policies.

36.   It was none other than Kelley Atkinson, president of the Georgia Association of HMOs, who recently defended the policy.

37.   John H.F. Shattuck, assistant secretary of state for human rights, defended this policy, saying open trade can encourage freedom by strengthening independent institutions.

38.   Lawyers for the university defended the policy, saying the student groups performed an important educational role.

39.   League officials defend the policy on the grounds that the presence of men inhibits women from asserting themselves.

40.   Mbeki spent much of the meeting defending policies on AIDS and Zimbabwe.