advocate

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I therefore advocate caution.

I would like to advocate this.

I would advocate that way forward.

I am an advocate of the system.

I advocate transparent, joint and efficient development policy.

champion

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There are new proposals to champion.

defend

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If we say we are going to defend human rights, we must also defend the right to education at all costs.

I defend what you have done.

I did not defend attacks on civilians.

We seek to defend human rights.

We ought, in turn, to defend ours.

shield

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The best security shield is the battle against poverty.

This is the out - dated   'shield'   theory.

The creation of a missile defence shield will only lead to an increase in the number of missiles.

excuse

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Please excuse this very legal answer.

I do not use those as an excuse.

We must be careful not to give him an excuse.

905 As environmentalists, we do not want an excuse for a motion.

This is no excuse for doing things which are actually superfluous.

forgive

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I hope he will forgive my forthrightness because this is an important question.

I am sure that he will forgive me, however, for raising three objections to his excellent report.

When we forgive debt, we have used the money.

You will forgive me if I do not respond to all the concerns which have been expressed this morning.

If we do not, nobody will understand or forgive us for not realising our aim.

justify

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Let me justify that assertion.

It has to justify its existence.

I have enough anecdotes to justify my impatience.

14872 As if this would explain and justify everything.

But good ends do not justify any means whatever.

make excuses

pardon

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27787 It is, however, true that they have no intention of granting a general pardon.

It is, in fact, almost like performing a striptease in the dark, if you will pardon the expression.

remit

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But we now have a wider remit to discuss this subject.

I will answer them, because this matter is within my direct remit.

In this regard, it must be remembered that energy policy remains within the national remit.

We should not do this as this is outside our remit.

It is, after all, they who have most knowledge about the regions which fall under their remit.

validate

assert

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Assert yourself in your party.

You are daring to assert that competition provides considerable protection against the abuse of power.

protect

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We ought to be trying to protect the physical and moral health of these people, and protect our economy.

That will help protect employment.

We must protect the world's fish stocks.

More must be done to protect children.

People will need to protect themselves against such abuse.

safeguard

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This is also the only way to safeguard human dignity.

It seems to me that this procedure is already a safeguard.

It is essential that we safeguard the institution of asylum.

Lastly, the greatest safeguard against abuse of arms exports is transparency.

I believe it is important that we use democratic methods to safeguard peace.

save

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They must make the decisions which will allow us to save that energy and save that money.

This could save a great many lives.

It would save money on health services.

Municipalities and consumers would save on costs.

We know that safety belts save lives.

shelter

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36775 Even in shelter programmes women are involved.

They have no water, sanitation, energy, medicine, education or reliable shelter.

They urgently need aid such as food, water and shelter in order to survive.

I saw children with serious malnutrition and in need of health care, as well as food and proper shelter.

speak up for

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But only the women have their own committee to speak up for them.

stand for

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This should first of all stand for better service.

They are in direct opposition to the principles that we stand for.

I stand for cast - iron guarantees that universal service obligations will always be protected.

Irrespective of what these groups purport to stand for, this is behaviour that can never be defended.

Today, we have proved that we stand for this, and that is how it should be.

support

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Sometimes travellers need additional support and perhaps more support than the local population.

We are not talking here about extra financial support, but about support in the work of negotiation.

I support his view, as long as this results in income support for those on incomes which are too low.

By nourishing our schoolchildren we also support our dairy farmers who need our support.

We support the aim of the amendments but, nevertheless, we cannot support their wording.

sustain

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That is how we sustain our considerable lead in world markets.

It must be financially feasible to sustain the change - of - generation system.

A poor or developing country cannot sustain a birth rate above two children per woman.

40674 Nevertheless, the principle that he would seek to sustain will be sustained.

They will be good for consumers because they sustain and develop competition.

To defend.

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If we say we are going to defend human rights, we must also defend the right to education at all costs.

To defend those values, we must do our utmost to maintain coherence and transparency.

23166 They just need us to join forces in order to defend our interests together.

We seek to defend human rights.

We ought, in turn, to defend ours.

uphold

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That is a basic principle which we must uphold.

It is also necessary to uphold the rule of law.

It is important that they should be able to uphold their beliefs.

The structures for democracy do exist and every effort must be made to uphold them.

That means that it is becoming more difficult to uphold environmental rules.

vindicate