61.  The dental group had defended its practices, saying they involved ethical rules designed to protect consumers from false or misleading claims about dental prices and services.

62.  The district defends its practices.

63.  The government defends the practice as justified to protect sensitive counterterrorism intelligence sources and law enforcement efforts.

64.  The last thing I expected was someone to defend the practice by invoking Martin Luther King Jr. Sure enough, someone did.

65.  The Navy defended the practice of allowing civilians some involvement.

66.  The police vigorously defend current practices, developed as part of an overhaul of procedures that followed a bitter public debate over the Eleanor Bumpurs case.

67.  The recipients of Enron money have energetically defended the practice.

68.  The State Department normally defends the practice of honoring diplomatic immunity, which protects diplomats from local harassment, because it protects Americans abroad as well.

69.  The union says it wants to defend the practice of medicine against corporate bean counters.

70.  Thomas has offered limited comments about his reticence, leaving it to friends and former law clerks to defend his practice.