0 defence of one’s own body, property etc against attack -- selvforsvar
He killed his attacker in self-defence/-defense.
In order to convince themselves of the justness of their cause, they appealed to the traditional principle of actual self-defence which was recognized both by theologians and humanists.
By the mid-seventeenth century, so we are told, there was talk of an inalienable right to self-defence that was operative even when good government and human positive law prevailed.
Respondents no longer spoke of philosophies and absolutes or of individuals and masses, but instead of self-defence, of self-preservation and of competing, diametrically opposed visions of human existence.
Her at first sight insolent behaviour towards the young man is in fact a method of self-defence against male aggression, and as such another expression of her mental strength.
While throughout the century fencing masters continued to argue that the skill was essential for self-defence, fencing was increasingly promoted as worth practising for its own sake.
In self-defence against pressures from large organizations, they can put their trust in face-to-face relations with other people whom they know, and in fact this tends to occur.
The time had not yet come to reflect upon how the various communities had acted or not acted in self-defence.
In our view, the consideration that the partner might die is probably not so easily triggered, because of self-defence coping mechanisms.
