1.   Democrats successfully defended more than a dozen others.

2.   Hard hitting criticism and savage satire can generally be successfully defended as honest comment, so long as the exaggerations are not so extreme as to indicate malice.

3.   Among the attorneys supporting Richards was Michael Tigar, the Austin criminal law expert who successfully defended Republican U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas against ethics charges.

4.   And sometimes businesses have successfully defended the need to maintain their authenticity, for instance by hiring French chefs in a French restaurant.

5.   And the Justice Department successfully defended those laws when legal challenges arose.

6.   Arguably the only thing tougher than winning an NHL title is successfully defending it.

7.   Atle Skaardal, the Norwegian, had just successfully defended his world title in the super-G.

8.   Because the peace plan does not call for the independence of Kosovo, he can argue that he successfully defended Serbian interests.

9.   Baseball aficionados forecast that it will not be defended successfully.

10.   Before he speaks, Clinton will walk through the heart of Berlin -- from the west that John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan successfully defended.