Sentence examples for a valid defense from inspiring English sources
Is that really a valid defense?
My friends, that is not a valid defense.
Ideological conviction is not a valid defense for perjury.
But lack of memory is not a valid defense.
Likewise, establishing that a statement is literally true, even if misleading, is also a valid defense.
When the opponent has built a valid defense, there's no use throwing your forces at enemy entrenchments.
Such claims add up to a quite valid defense of a certain literary genre, but the genre in question isn't memoir — it's the novel.
" 'The government made me do it' is not really a valid legal defense," said Randall W. Bodner, a lawyer at the firm Ropes & Gray.
A brief coda emphasizes the character's pathos — and wonders if obeying orders is ever a valid moral defense — but makes empathy no easier.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has asserted: "Constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion do not permit children to be harmed through religious practices, nor do they allow religion to be a valid legal defense when an individual harms or neglects a child".
Violence against trans and queer people is nothing new, she says, pointing out that in nearly every state, "trans panic" is still a valid legal defense to battery and murder.
