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Microsoft apologists have lately tried to say that Microsoft is a great enterprise company, but not so much a consumer company.

Apologists point to Stalinism and Nazism as murderous ideologies, as if their existence made Torquemada and the Taliban somehow acceptable.

Apologists for religion point to the Sistine Chapel and Bach's Mass in B minor as some sort of justification for it.

Apologists for religion point to charitable works as some sort of justification for it.

Apologists for Joseph Stalin used to justify such brutality by arguing that you could not make an omelette without breaking eggs.

But, say apologists for the bad results so far, shouldn't we be focused on the long run rather than short-run pain?

You have Christian apologists, therefore, writing apologies in the second century, trying to defend Christianity against these attacks.

It was not quoted or referred to by any Christian apologists prior to Eusebius, c. 316 ad.

Apologists for that orgy of violence, destruction and persecution in the latter years of Mao's rule abound in China's Maoist circles.

His apologists even said he should be given time to write his own legacy.

They cast their critics as a blend of the querulous Neville Chamberlain and craven apologists for Stalin.

Apologists for globalisation, he argues, treat it as a source of benefits, and only accidentally and incidentally a source of harms.

Apologists for Bush point to a form of dyslexia he suffers from.

I must point out before I get floods of complaints from Premier League apologists that I have no grudge against English football.

Other countries, Kremlin apologists point out, have redrafted energy deals as the oil price has risen.

Historical apologists for the Indians of Manhattan may find refuge in similar calculations.

Apologists for the Kremlin blame the civilian deaths on liberals who destabilize the country with their criticism of the authorities.

People stress that they disagree with the government apologists who say Syrians are not ready for democracy.

But ah, you hear Mr Putin's apologists say, the west fed Russian paranoia.

We need some apologists to defend the rule-of-law theory.

That excuse is too convenient by half: it is what the apologists for communism said too.

The three apologists were not acting alone.

The romantic apologists , led by Wagner, based their theories largely on the existence of this choral finale;

A Study of Apologists'Ideology and its Practice in the Period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom