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Aircraft carriers and their accompanying ships are unable to defend themselves against such a threat.

It did not rest on a concept of personal human rights that ordinary people could call on to defend themselves against unjust rulers.

After only a moment or two they gave up trying to defend themselves.

The official version of the event is that the police were attacked and were just trying to defend themselves.

In the wide spaces of eastern Europe, towns needed to be able to defend themselves against raids by Turkish or Tartar horsemen.

The U. S. government must improve its ability to help its partners defend themselves or, if necessary, fight alongside U. S. troops.

They decided to defend themselves from what seemed to be the most dangerous creatures of all: the Garou.

Taiwan could have the latest and greatest of everything, but they still would never be able to defend themselves against China.

They reason that if 18-year-olds can use guns to defend their country, then they should be able to carry one to defend themselves.

All pangolins can roll themselves into a ball to defend themselves. The cutting action of their scales protects them too.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrender.

We move forward promptly with a major effort to help these countries defend themselves.

Even though The Office made light of alliances, some folks still think they need a "team" to defend themselves.

Countries should be able to defend themselves, he suggested, if an attack posed imminent danger to human lives.

Tonight and for as long as it takes, people should band together to defend themselves when such violence threatens homes and communities.

Now we have to hear we have to "train" the Afghanis to defend themselves. Please.

Why weren't they better prepared to defend themselves without using lethal force?

At least that's the scheme some plants have developed to defend themselves from leaf eaters.

Therefore , anyone worth robbing is powerful enough to defend themselves against your attacks .

The Germans could not effectively defend themselves, as they had been already disarmed under the provisions of the Versailles Treaty.

Military jets and helicopter gunships were unleashed upon people who had no means to defend themselves against assaults from the air.

If it is compromised, then the bees could not defend themselves against pesticides or fungal infections or bacteria or poor nutrition.

A group of residents demanded access to the armory, stating their need for the right to defend themselves, which the Overseer denied.

Even in cases where individual defendants express a desire to defend themselves, the courts will appoint a lawyer.

They're often unable to deal with aggressiveness and hardly learn to defend themselves.

Officially, guards are allowed to defend themselves if poachers shoot.

Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

They don't aggressively seek trouble, but it is not unusual that they would defend themselves, their flag and their cargo.

Both men were too inebriated to defend themselves but managed to land blows on each other. Before long they were both gushing blood.

But if they go to Paris trying to defend themselves like they did over Ferrari-gate it will not be good for them.

Snape even intended to turn the two over directly to the Dementors, not giving them any chance to defend themselves.

But people who are in the right are expected to defend themselves instead of "letting other people walk all over them. "

The bill would infringe upon the ability of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves and their families.

The East Indiaman was not solely designed for trading purposes though, these ships were well armed to defend themselves.

Actually most 'terrorism' is simply people using violence to defend themselves from brutal, outside, aggression.

As a bad public security in American campus, more parents urgently gives guns for their daughters to defend themselves.

Executive administrative hearing is a relative to protect the right to defend themselves the most important and critical process systems.

Insteas , they defend themselves from the consequences of injury and infection by walling off the damage .

They must also hire lawyers to defend themselves against attacks by other lawyers on a playing field built by lawyers.

State Street and BNY Mellon say they have done nothing wrong and will defend themselves.

Being far outnumbered, the four dragons could not defend themselves, and they were soon arrested and brought back to the heavenly palace.

The more times of job changes or lengthy training would result the employers relatively powerful to defend themselves.

He asserted the right of AU troops to defend themselves, but reinforced the mission's neutrality in the country's conflict.

Insects use cellular and humoral immune systems to defend themselves from foreign bodies.

Both sides stockpile weapons to defend themselves against possible attack.

Administrative organs shall not impose heavier penalties on the parties just because the parties have tried to defend themselves.

They are too poor to defend themselves by expensive flood controls or sophisticated public-health programmes.

They become fair game by virtue of their ubiquity, or inability to defend themselves.

People in Europe have long been concerned about having enough children to field an army and defend themselves.

But economies like China, South Korea and Taiwan now have more reserves than they need to defend themselves against shocks.

The crabs defend themselves by carrying tiny stinging sea anemones in their claws.

In all-female groups, women like to defend themselves; however, men tend to defend more in mixed-gender groups.

After that they will subside as countries acquire the economic means to better defend themselves.

The ancient Chinese practiced Kungfu to defend themselves.

And if they cannot bring their guns with them, how will they defend themselves and their loved ones when threatened?

All our officers are trained to defend themselves against knife attacks.

Animals use their claws or talons to catch prey, climb trees, and defend themselves.

Many of the indigenous plants aggressively defend themselves.

Police officers show teachers and school workers at a Beijing school how to defend themselves during an attack.

Only a weak country can't defend themselves.

They're sick, and so they're less able to defend themselves from the mosquitoes.

carry large pieces of food and defend themselves against enemies.

China can do what it pleases, any nation has the right to arm and defend themselves ; but to ignore such developments is dangerous.

Officials say they are handing out 1. 2m guns to let ordinary citizens "defend themselves" .

They made weapons to defend themselves against their enemy.

Miz Cox-Foster says the nation needs honeybees that can defend themselves better against disease and insects.

They should never defend themselves for using cell phone in class.

But plants can defend themselves by using both physical and chemical means.

But pants can defend themselves by using both physical and chemical means.

Afghans are being trained to defend themselves.

The black people there have taken up arms to defend themselves.

It is a fixed rule with the wise never to defend themselves with the pen.

These sponges , and actually all sponges , don't have the ability to move so that they need to find ways to defend themselves.

The size of the losses in 2007 and 2008 may force some managers to defend themselves more aggressively than in the past.

Grapes actually produce resveratrol in order to defend themselves against invasion by fungus.

The law allows people to defend themselves against a charge.

Unlike USA - china don't want to lead the world. . . they simply mind their own business and defend themselves.

But often it is more effective for individuals to defend themselves.

Opposition leaders who called the strike say the instant courts are not giving the accused their proper chance to defend themselves.

Sheep are pretty dumb and helpless. They get lost easily, they can't defend themselves against other animals.

The researchers found that politicians and others who need to publicly defend themselves are motivated to learn about opposing ideas.

They use weapons as us to defend themselves from danger.

Why towns? Because they allowed humans to defend themselves more easily.

To compensate for their size, nature has given many small animals weapons such as fangs and stingers to defend themselves.

We can do a better job of training the Iraqi forces to defend themselves, and I know that we can do a better job of preparing for elections.

Here they had to learn from the animals because they wanted to defend themselves.

The Forsaken Undead defend themselves against the Scourge