It also served as a defense against gnosticism and syncretistic heretical interpretations of the Christian faith.
I am an attorney who has served as a defense lawyer in half a dozen Plowshares cases since 1998.
I'd also like to see a practicing lawyer, especially someone who served as a defense attorney, on the Court.
The traveler's identity was the surprising part: David McNevin, who served as a defense attaché at the American Embassy here.
Hoshangabad was founded by Sultan Hoshang Shah of Malwa in 1406, and it served as a defense against Gond invaders.
From the 14th through the 16th centuries, Zvenigorod served as a defense post on the western approaches to Moscow, from Lithuania and Poland, along the Smolensk-Moscow road.
It was conducted by a team of lawyers and criminologists at Columbia University led by James S. Liebman, a professor of law who has served as a defense lawyer in a number of death penalty trials and appeals.
Even Pacino's speech patterns, which forge a kind of evasive switchback trail up a mountain of thought, serve as a defense against too much parsing of his interior.
Retired Rear Admiral Eric McVadon, who flew patrols off the coast of Russia and served as a defense attaché in Beijing, told me that the radio reports from the aircraft indicated that essential electronic gear had been dealt with.
"It is apparent to us that the benefit of our rule that permits a municipal prosecutor also to serve as a defense counsel is now outweighed by the high probability that the prosecutor's impartiality will be undermined," he wrote.
