Greenberg believed that the avant-garde arose in order to defend aesthetic standards from the decline of taste involved in consumer society, and seeing kitsch and art as opposites.

Representative Williams is a liberal Democrat known for defending occupational-safety standards and other protections of workers and families.

In 1995 he cofounded the Lebanese Association of Democratic Elections (LADE), a non-partisan association aiming to promote electoral reform, defend democratic standards and monitor elections.

In particular, Hitchens criticises the easy capture of the Conservative Party by lobbyists for commercial TV, which removed the BBC's monopoly power to defend cultural standards.

And the intellectual elites who once defended standards have proved all too willing to go silent in the face of deviant behavior like Newt Gingrich's affair with a staffer.

He went on: "Sport helps to promote the university, but there would be no academic product worth selling without faculty to defend academic standards and deliver quality instruction.

Beginning in the late 19th century, the New Humanism defended artistic standards and "first principles" (Babbitt's phrase).

The IFJ launched the Ethical Journalism Initiative in 2008, a global campaign to defend standards and to raise awareness of the importance of quality journalism.

I would like to assure Commissioner Frattini of our full support and urge him to forthrightly defend Europe's rights and standards in this area.

Therefore, we are not interfering in China's internal affairs, but merely trying to defend standards and values which are important to us everywhere - in Europe, Asia and throughout the world.