Sentence examples for defending oneself from inspiring English sources

Defending oneself can eat up valuable hours.

"You have these reflexes, like defending oneself," Mr. Emmanouilidis said.

Rankine's prose representations often border on pro se representation, the action of defending oneself in a court of law.

The analysis resulted in the emergence of six themes and seven subthemes: confronting the disease using religious sentiment, seeking support, fighting the disease, defending oneself against the disease, concealing the disease, and expressing emotions.

There was no doubt that the second possibility was seen – or rather would be presented by Barry Roux for the defence – as the lesser offence, and not just because the legal category of "putative private defence" (defending oneself against a presumed attacker, even if the presumption was wrong) could present the shooting as a legitimate response to fear.

Since, in this passage, Plato uses the word 'antistrophos' to designate an analogy, it is likely that Aristotle wants to express a kind of analogy too: what dialectic is for the (private or academic) practice of attacking and maintaining an argument, rhetoric is for the (public) practice of defending oneself or accusing an opponent.

He told reporters at his studio: "Today's verdict means that after 60 years of the founding of our nation, we still lack the basic legal procedures, the truth is not respected, and they do not give taxpayers or citizens any rights to defend oneself.

Because of this development, it is now considered a "social taboo" in Oman to pull out one's khanjar from its scabbard, since the only time men would do this would be to seek vengeance or to defend oneself.

Hence, near-perfect nestmate recognition ability does not necessarily translate into the ability to defend oneself.

"There are time when one can rightfully defend oneself, but these kinds of confrontations should be avoided.

"When you are being attacked, there is a natural human instinct to defend oneself," says Olexandr Martynenko, director of Interfax-Ukraine, the country's leading news wire.