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Example sentences for: self-defense

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Whether they can renounce self-defense, as the Mennonites appear to have done, is a matter of personal moral realization.
Such strikes would be acts of self-defense that would not violate the ban on assassinations in Executive Order 12333.
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.
In this restricted National Security Council meeting, the President said it was a time for self-defense.
Furthermore, he can always moot the allies' self-defense argument by ceasing his provocations.