The Saudi delegation responded defending "legal traditions" held since the inception of Islam 1,400 years ago and rejected interference in its legal system.

Children should be educated religiously, and parents should defend Islamic traditions.

Western discourses were taken over, and western polemic styles were applied to defend indigenous traditions.

Defend national and religious traditions, as a valuable way to strengthen national identity and religious obscurantism, while defending modernism of the West.

Kalakaua, who reigned much longer, was a far more colorful figure, given to high living even as he tried to defend Hawaiian independence and traditions against overwhelming pressures.

Yushchenko also congratulated and wished Yanukovych "to defend Ukrainian interests and democratic traditions" at the presidential post.

Both sets of reformers were opposed by the conservative Slavophiles, who sought to defend established traditions and values.

He also defended traditions of tolerance within Islam.

She was an enthusiastic supporter of campaigns to defend the landscape, language and traditions of Cornwall and rural England.

The Cossacks, as an autonomous group, had to defend their liberties and traditions against the ever-expanding Russian government.