0 US spelling of defence
1 the ability to protect against attack or harm, or something used to protect against attack or harm:
2 (in sports) the ability to prevent the opposition from scoring points in a competition, or, esp. in football, the team without the ball that is trying to prevent its opposition from scoring points:
3 → defence
This places the offender in a tricky position with regard to the construction of defenses.
For its part, the defense may (but is not obliged to) present an alternative theory of the events associated with the crime.
The estimates, as proportions, are as follows: health (0.03), education (0.05), defense (0.13).
In that case equality would not depend on the fortuity that an affirmative defense is in play.
I will offer a brief sketch of this defense shortly and at least show that it cannot be easily dismissed.
While social responsibility informed the development of these plans, corporate officials viewed them primarily as a defense against unions and government antitrust initiatives.
It was, rather, a more comprehensive defense of a whole range of positive values threatened by rampant free-market practices and attitudes.
If capitalism were only celebrated for its true merits, as her fiction attempted to do, its defense would be simple.
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