Sentence examples for legitimate defense from inspiring English sources

Zarif: It's our legitimate defense.

"It's a legitimate defense," Basheer said.

And tax evasion is seen as a legitimate defense against an inefficient state.

To wage a "legitimate defense," Mireles says, the militia must ward off all criminal elements, regardless of uniform.

Ignorance has often been a legitimate defense for a corporate executive; under the law, prosecutors must prove intent.

Article 10 of Mexico's 1857 Constitution declared, much like the American Second Amendment, that "every man has the right to bear arms for his security and legitimate defense".

"Some of them have fairly legitimate defenses".

BYU has struggled against legitimate defenses, and the Irish defense certainly is legit.

With recent revelations that banks have cut corners in documenting mortgages during the boom, lawyers say, chances are better than ever to raise legitimate defenses to get a bank's foreclosure action thrown out.

"Until recently, foreclosure defense would have been considered the lowest of the low — below the divorce guys, below ambulance chasers," said Mr. Oppenheim, who practices in Weston, Fla ."The idea was inconceivable that you might have legitimate defenses when your client did not pay the bank that had lent them a sum of money".

Nor are excuses of being under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol legitimate defenses.