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Example sentences for: self-defense

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Last week, it notes, Secretary of Defense William Cohen urged Israel to refrain from retaliating, but Sunday he was quoted as granting Israel the right of self-defense.
The current Memorandum of Notification instructed the CIA to capture Bin Ladin and to use lethal force only in self-defense.
One inmate was released after Perez admitted that he and his partner shot the man and then planted a gun on him so they could claim self-defense.
Wilson Combat sells a Millennium Protector .45 Automatic for self-defense, against whom or what it is unclear.
In order to renounce self-defense you need a reason, something to the effect that violence only breeds more violence.