Sentence examples for legitimate defence from inspiring English sources

For her, this is a legitimate defence.

The police described the incident as legitimate defence.

"That is to say, in our minds they acted in legitimate defence".

They can appeal ("Officer, I was stopping to answer my cellular phone" is a legitimate defence), but not without having the summons sent to their homes.

In freak cases, variants on the abuse excuse continue to prevail: just last month, the Indiana Supreme Court recognised battered-wife syndrome as a legitimate defence (not just a mitigating factor) against a criminal charge of neglecting a child.

Three days later, however, Colombia's defence minister, Juan Manuel Santos, a possible candidate in the 2010 presidential elections, stirred the pot, calling the raid an act of "legitimate defence" and celebrating the killing of Reyes.

The AECA outlines the conditions under which countries may use U.S. weapons systems, primarily for "internal security" or "legitimate self defence".

The British claimed legitimate self-defence, but Webster argued later that anticipatory action was justified as self-defence only where "the necessity of that self-defence is instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation".

The 1945 UN charter prohibits all use of force against other countries, unless in legitimate self-defence or with authorisation by the UN Security Council.

Williams said: "Unless there is a way of representing the settlements as legitimate self-defence I remain very disturbed about that, along with many".

Indeed, they would argue that B may kill A in legitimate self-defence.