In October 1861 William H. Johnson of Company V, Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, wrote to the Pine and Palm, a New York City black paper, describing army life in Virginia: "The proscribed [black] Americans, (and there are many), attached to this regiment" had even formed their own association, the "Self-Defenders of Connecticut".
In Ms. 45 (1981), the lead slips from self-defender to vigilante to serial killer to mass murderer in less than 90 minutes.
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A self-described defender of abortion rights, he has repeatedly supported restrictions on the procedure.
The former bishop, Fernando Lugo, is a self-described defender of the poor who left the church two years ago.
A self-styled defender of the poor, he had earlier receiving a formal admonishment for his political activities.
The same advice might have helped Norrell, Washington's self-appointed defender, whose book might be more persuasive if its aims were less obvious.
The self-proclaimed defender against the "War on Women" could not possibly believe in such an irrational policy on the merits, the story went.
The self-proclaimed defender of women's rights who waited until it was almost too late to declare her support for marriage equality?
Some proponents of urban renewal and integrated housing attacked Monsignor Egan in turn as a self-interested defender of largely white Catholic neighborhoods.
Curry was his usual terpsichorean self, slipping defenders, hoisting from the edges of the half-court logo, slinking his way, sometimes almost lazily, into attempt after improbably open attempt.
