His or her snarl when the officials came with a canvas bag was completely justified as self-defense.
He would describe me as a liar, not respectful to authority, defiant, and write my death off as self-defense.
In several cases, authorities have claimed these vigilantes are allied with rival gangs, and pass themselves off as self-defense groups to gain greater legitimacy.
If it were clear that Bin Laden was "threatening to use a weapon to kill," then his shooting is justifiable as self-defense, Mr. Robertson conceded.
At the request of the American and British delegations, the Security Council met for more than two hours to hear their justification for the airstrikes as self-defense.
He drew a parallel between the Israeli raids and the United States attack on Afghanistan, noting that Mr. Annan had supported the latter as self-defense.
This month, a 16-year-old Bahraini protester was killed in what activists said was a brutal attack by security forces, but which Bahrain's government framed as self-defense.
The local police officers are vetted and trained under the supervision of American Special Operations troops as self-defense forces for their own communities and sometimes include groups of armed men who had formerly sided with the Taliban.
