An official is abusing his power and making a defenseless citizen's life miserable, and Abe, his sense of justice as well as his feeling of power aroused, decides to take direct action.
But he was defenseless against the strategic moves life makes and the way he feels when he looks at his worshipful little boy and thinks, "I have to provide".
Egils saga offers a brilliant study of a complex personality a ruthless Viking who is also a sensitive poet, a rebel against authority from early childhood who ends his life as a defenseless, blind old man.
It has long been axiomatic that imitation is the sincerest form of television, but this season we have witnessed a new achievement in the turnaround time necessary to beat the life out of a defenseless idea.
On January 1st, 2009, when a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Police Officer Johannes Mehserle, 28, shot a Oscar Grant, 23, a defenseless young black male point blank and took his life, where was the outcry?
"Once again Salvadorans have given an example to the entire world that we defend the right to life of all human beings however small, poor, vulnerable or defenseless," said Julia Regina de Cardenal, director of the foundation Yes to Life.
While not considered one of Nabokov's major works, the novel is a comic and tender portrait of a defenseless intellectual trying to deal with the complexities of American life.
The end of the book finds Rita defeated by life: "For the first time I sat down defenseless to await life's next assault".
For 33 years he devoted his life to defending and befriending the downtrodden and the defenseless, for the last 23 years as Attorney-In-Charge of the Eastern District Federal Defender Division of the Legal Aid Society.
This agreement would ensure global cooperation to protect marine life in international waters; without it, our oceans remain defenseless.
