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Example sentences for: self-defense

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The term “murder” implies a prohibition only against unjustified killing, implying the permissibility of killing in self-defense.
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.
Shaolin now provides movie sets for film crews as well as schools for domestic and foreign classes in self-defense.
But Breines is avowedly anti-Israel, and he sees any expression of Jewish self-defense as a sign of nationalism gone awry.
Their goal is "to shore up hunting's popularity," says William Poole, the moron in charge (who I would love to make the first target of my brand-new still-untested self-defense fighting skills--particularly one I just learned that they call the Axe, which involves bringing the heel of my foot right down between his eyes several times).