He defended his conduct and said that Reliance advocacy was for national 'energy security'.

Even next year's Presidential candidate, who may not have played any role in these events, will have to defend the party's conduct.

But none of them dealt with the fact that his client was unwilling to defend his conduct before an American judge.

He returned at once, with the leave of the American general, to defend his conduct and demanded but never obtained a trial.

Too often, she said, when commanding officers attended community meetings, they spent too much time defending the department's conduct.

Nor did she do it to defend her own personal conduct.

I guess they can defend their own conduct if they want.

The best bets are: 1) Microsoft thought itself so obviously virtuous that it didn't need to defend its conduct.

After the coup, the city council proposed a resolution defending its conduct, declaring that it had violated no law.

She successfully defended her conduct with wit and defiance.