Sentence examples for archaic defence from inspiring English sources
Critics believe this rare and archaic defence is incompatible with gender equality, and may not survive any gay marriage legislation, as it is available only to wives.
When a judge ruled that residents of Fred Wigg Tower in east London would have to put up and shut up over the siting of a missile battery on their roof, justifications included the resonant, almost archaic, "defence of the realm".
But she has a 21st-century mission as well: delivering the party's latest messages about economic populism, many aimed explicitly at women, a rising voter bloc with a strong Democratic bent.Addressing the Fayette County Democrats' dinner this week, Mrs Lundergan Grimes painted free-market qualms about higher minimum wages and other interventions as an archaic defence of discrimination.
Who wouldn't – deep down, in the basest, most prurient of ways – not have yearned to be a fly on the wall of the jury room at Southwark Crown Court, not just once, but twice, as 12 good people and true considered Vicky Pryce's archaic defence of marital coercion.
It's also interesting that Pryce wants to write about gender differences in the prison system when she pleaded not guilty with the archaic defence of "marital coercion", a chauvinistic defence only available to married women, which essentially says women are too vulnerable to defend themselves or be in possession of their own decision making.
Perpetrators generally stick to the archaic defence that their victims are "asking for it", though first-hand reports from Egyptian women show that fully veiled women are just as likely to be harassed as woman in a Western get up.
As archaic as the defence seems, it was only enshrined in national law in 1997 after the death Donald Gillies in the small Victorian town of Mudgee.
Similar legislation in the United States is dangerously open to abuse by state agencies, as are forms of copyright control which would allow ISPs to censor the content they transmit, or new laws on "extreme pornography", which restore the archaic offence of obscenity without the old defence of artistic merit.
But today, even the department of defence has recognised – at least on paper – the archaic nature of this presumption.
War still hovers, anticipated on this strand of English coast, even though the defences - lighthouse, dishes, tower - now look as archaic as Easter Island statues.
