Only parity within the league has permitted the defending champions to fantasize about a comeback.
A University of Colorado discussion about guns on campus changed course Wednesday as at least a half-dozen people in the audience identified themselves as students with concealed-weapon permits and defended their right to bring firearms to school.
You would not be permitted to defend on the ground that you had no reason to think that the transaction was such a profitable one for me.
And then there is the largest and most important context, the one we least like to acknowledge: from the vast, vicious, legally permitted, fiercely defended enterprise that was American slavery, almost no one ever escaped at all.
His letter called Mr. Troy "a radically and pervasively disturbed person," adding, "I cannot fathom why he was allowed not only to stand trial as sane, but more especially to be permitted to defend himself".
"Either way," she said, "if you're confronted by an oppressive adversary who threatens to take your life, my feeling is, in the law, as well as in politics, you are permitted to defend yourself".
When the afternoon proceed ings began, Judge Older an nounced that Miss Van Houten had requested that her attorney, Ronald Hughes, be dismissed, and that she be permitted to defend herself.
King Felipe went on to address himself to all Spaniards – "particularly the Catalans" – telling them that Spain had now lived in a state of democracy for decades and was a country in which anyone was permitted to defend their ideas as long as they respected the law.
The law extends the traditional Castle Doctrine, under which the use of force is permitted to defend one's home, to the highways and beaches and bars, affording legal immunity to someone who uses "deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony".
In China, however, students generally must publish in a recognized journal before they are permitted to defend.
Hunters and governments that permit hunting defend the activity for a variety of reasons.
