Synonyms for Defended
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1. List of paraphrases for "defended":

   advocated, championed, upheld, protected, defend, forbidden

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1. Ross Garber:

   I'm not sure of anybody who's defended more impeachments than I have, and even I think Alan Dershowitz is wrong on this, i don't think you need a technical criminal violation for there to be an impeachable offense, and there are lots of reasons for that.

2. Jim Bridenstine:

   That particular path that put NASA on the exploration [science] and discovery [has] not changed, nASA has hundreds of billions of dollars of assets in orbit, and we have human lives in orbit. Space is so important to the human condition on Earth. We are now at a point if we were to lose space, it would be an existential threat to the United States of America, and what that means is: it has to be defended.

3. President Hassan Rouhani:

   The same way that we defended our independence on the battlefield, we have and will continue to defend our independence at the negotiating table, what we are after in the negotiations is to reach a win-win mutual understanding.

4. Pete Buttigieg:

   Democrats inference that Donald Trump is guilty because Donald Trump does not voluntarily permit Donald Trump deputies to testify hasrankled Republicans, who assert the importance of the presumption of innocence. Joe Biden then knocked Trumps argument that less than half of Americans support Joe Biden removal from office. Hes dumbing down the presidency beyond what I even thought Joe Biden would do, Joe Biden said. We need to restore the integrity of the presidency. Democratic presidential candidates from left, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend Mayor South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and businessman Tom Steyer stand on stage during a Democratic presidential primary debate Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, in Los Angeles. ( Associated Press) Later, Democrats largely defended Trumps breakthrough U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which White House passed hours earlier. However, candidatesrailed against Trumps economy, despite multipleindicators that the economy is doing well. The U.S. unemployment rate stands at a half-century low of 3.5 percent, backed by consistently strong job gains in recent months that have largely squelched fears of a recession that had taken hold over the summer. This economy is not working for most of us, the middle class is getting killed, Joe Biden added. Joe Biden said the economy was not.

5. Paul French:

   It's really hard to educate consumers that their broker is making 3 %, today there's an artificial barrier around the old way that's being defended to the death.