to hold a brief for …
                        
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                        to drive a hard bargain
                        
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                        to stand for justice
                        
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                        to stand for a policy
                        
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                        to be counsel for the defense
                        
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                        to speak in advocacy of sth
                        
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                        to contest a marriage
                        
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                        to defend an opinion
                        
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                        to stand for a policy
                        
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                        to defend a prisoner at bar
                        
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                        to stand up and be counted
                        
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                        to speak in advocacy of sth
                        
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                        to hold that a plan is impracticable
                        
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                        to stick up for someone
                        
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                        to appear for someone
                        
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                        to appear on behalf of someone
                        
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                        to stand up for someone
                        
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                        to stick up for someone
                        
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                        to take up the cudgel for
                        
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                        to stand up for someone
                        
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                        to contest sb's succession
                        
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                        to believe in doing something
                        
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                        to argue a case for the plaintiff
                        
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                        to fight an action at law
                        
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                        to plead one's case well
                        
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                        to conduct one's own case
                        
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                        to defend one's case
                        
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                        to maintain an action
                        
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                        to champion the oppressed
                        
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                        to assert one's rights
                        
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                        to stick up for one's rights
                        
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                        to keep one's ground
                        
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                        to make stand for one's principles
                        
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                        to plead one's cause
                        
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                        to stick up for your self
                        
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                        to keep one's end up
                        
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                        to stick up for your self
                        
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                        to plead before the court
                        
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                        to defend one's country
                        
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                        to argument by analogy
                        
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                        to argument from analogy
                        
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                        to vindicate one's policy
                        
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                        to vindicate one's judgment
                        
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                        to mend one's fences
                        
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                        to dispute the ground inch by inch
                        
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                        to take up the cause of the poor
                        
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                        to appear for the defendant
                        
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                        to defend a prisoner at the bar
                        
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                        in his own defence defense
                        
                        
                    
                 
                
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                        to state something in one's defence defense
                        
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                        to state something in one's defence
                        
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                        to address the jury in one's own defence defense
                        
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