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The man pleaded self-defence.
Quite apart from the concerns surrounding this injustice itself, it seems grotesque that this situation has been brought about by a committee whose very purpose of existence is the defence of women's rights and equal opportunities.
It is my fear that in an understandable but foolish wish for the European Union to have its own defence capability, politicians are forging ahead with plans that are at best wishful thoughts, and at worst dangerous.
Fever is one of the body's defence mechanisms.
Tom killed John in self-defence.
The police realized that Dan acted in self-defence.
Dan claimed that he acted in self-defence.
The defence attorney claimed that the police had coerced his client into confessing to the crime.
Ignorance of the law is not accepted as a defence.
Mary took a self-defence class.
He trusted his defence lawyer.
Movie subtitles
According to our informants, all the major defence companies have ceased their activities and the scandal caused by the information we've made public has pushed several Governments to start over and redirect their ambitions.
You think a great offence is a great defence.
No truer words have ever been spoken. Rise to her defence!
Defence?
I wish to ask my colleague if he has one scrap of evidence to add now to the defence he could not give at that hearing?
I have no defence against forgery!
Defence ready?
If it please the court, the defence has full confidence in Mr Osborne. in spite of the fact that he once was accused of stealing a horse.
The defence can prove by three witnesses. that Rigby and his men were on the Dalton farm.
And the night before you took command of the Southern Cross. did you or did you not talk to King Cutler. this same man who is now conducting your defence?
Capt. Stuart, there are other able skippers with ships in Rotten Row. but you were the first to stand in defence of the pirate wreckers that haunt these Keys.
Don't you think that would be dangerous for our national defence?
I am a deputy and member of the National Defence commission.
Self defence, of course, and all that goes with it.
Mr Deeds, have you anything to say in defence of these articles?
Take the murderer's first line of defence.
I object, Milord.. the counsel for the defence seeks to insinuate..
The defence maintain Lady Dearden's five minute visit to Sunset View was unusual.
The defence rests.
The defence has rested, Sir Alan.
Milord.. with the consent of the court.. And the counsel for the defence, I should like an adjournment.
It supplies an excellent basis for a plea of self-defence.
A denial now would create the impression that the crime was premeditated and.. Not self-defence.
Of course you realize your plea of self defence relies solely on this other man. Unless he appears and admits quarrelling with her prior to your arrival.
Unless it was self-defence.
To prepare my address to the jury, which'll be our only defence.
You had a perfect self-defence plea.
I do not need a defence.
There isn't enough paint in Germany for that but let me scrape together something in his defence.
As thick as hail came post with post, and every one did bear thy praises in his kingdom's great defence.
He was a master of the Steinitz Defence.
Five hours later they chalked off Rappalo as self-defence and had worked a confession from the hoods on Albert's murder.
You have no other defence?
He's a doddering idiot! - What's wrong with the Emperor? We will show Europe how Russia rises in defence.
Maybe they wouldn't mean anything but. I felt that the defence wasn't conducting a thorough enough cross-examination.
This cablegram has been signed by the United States Secretary of Defence.
It's self-defence when I have to resort to the law.
A defence counsel can explain, he can make things understandable, perhaps he can make a judge lenient.
It's only human you'd want to come to the defence of your fellow countryman.
News and current affairs
Culture is too often cited as a defence against human rights by authoritarians who crush culture whenever it suits them.
Yet Geoff Hoon, Prime Minister Blair's defence minister, as well as his American counterpart, Donald Rumsfeld, remain in office.
This fact has long been ignored by firms seeking trade defence.
This article distinguishes NATO from virtually any other defensive alliance in human history, in the sense that it incorporated an open-ended guarantee of collective defence.
Here was a momentous event in NATO's 52-year history, and you might think that its activation would lead to a process of collective defence by NATO.
But the Bush Administration did not want collective defence and it did not want NATO to get involved: apart from a small, essentially marginal military contribution by Britain, in essence the US intended to fight this war by itself.
You cannot say to your allies that this is the supreme moment when we call on the Alliance for collective defence, and then in the next breath say, we don't need you for collective defence, we're going to do it our way.
Britain, France, and Germany have often resented being forced to tag along behind the US on defence issues, the EU's smaller members now fear being forcibly co-opted into an EU foreign policy when they have had no say in its development.
It marks ten years of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), during which the EU became a global provider of security, making a real difference to people's lives all over the world.
Other agreements refer to building an autonomous European defence capability.
LONDON: Britain's Labour government reacted to the crisis in Kosovo by coming out in favour of a stronger defence role for the European Union.
Others say that Europe can hardly have a single foreign and defence policy when four of its members are neutral.
In the case of defence and warfare, unpredictability includes the possibility of young men dying in action.
In essence, that is what those who stonewall in defence of the 1972 ABM Treaty are saying when they reject all options to create anti-ballistic missile defensive systems.
A third illustration concerns Moscow's recent defiance of the United Nations war crimes tribunal by hosting a visit of Yugoslav Defence Minister, Dragoljub Ojdanic.
Many are in formerly powerful research centers now wasting away, some form entire populations in once closed research cities and one institute towns that were wholly dependent on a single defence institute or project.
The Cologne summit marked a watershed not just because of a new policy declaration on security and defence.