"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.
"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.
The Swami gave a few demonstrations; among them how to defend oneself when attacked by a barfly with a broken bottle.
That section justifies using physical force when someone believes it is necessary to defend oneself or someone else from an attack.
To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.
Without mentioning the United States or Afghanistan by name, he said as he has in the past that there is "a right to defend oneself against terrorism".
To constantly struggle against form is to be constantly aware of form; to defend oneself against one's critics is to admit, despite it all, that they have something to say.
Among the burning American questions that one was expected to take a stand on in that era: Was violence inevitable, necessary, or justified to defend oneself against, say, institutionalized bigotry, or the oppressive machinery of a belligerent state?
Reading from his 15-page ruling on Wednesday, Judge Magi spoke of "very slippery ground, setting two constitutional principles against each other — the security of the state and the right to defend oneself".
