Sentences with phrase «used as a defense»

The WTO allows a national security exemption from its rules, but it has never been used as a defense in a trade dispute.

we understand ur need to use that as a defense of ur faith, but it is stupid

Ozil is being used as a defense to attack connector more that an attack initiator, the later being the thing he's better at.

This poem offers an indirect way of talking about the role that caution and with holding can be used as a defense against disappointment of being hurt.

He can't on the one hand acknowledge a vacancy to have occurred in March that he uses as a defense to issue a Special Election in November because he must declare the Special Election within 30 - 40 days of said acknoledgement, and then claim on the other hand the vacancy occurs after July 1st which precludes him from calling the Special in the first place.

Update: A sharp - eyed reader notes that JCOPE had already this defense from Lopez, possibly anticipating that he would use this as a defense once the report was made public.

One type is used as a defense mechanism, in which threatened ostracods emit a cloud of bioluminescence to distract predators.

Keep in mind my daydreaming was used as a defense to get through the dark periods of my earlier life; so now, when I feel myself getting into a rut I fire up the creative furnace of my brain and enter a fantasy land of hopes and dreams.

They use this as a defense mechanism and will expand their throat whenever they feel threatened.

Their absence may be used as a defense for the new game, but don't all great games have their flaws?

Another style gives him an ice clone that can be tossed at the opponent or used as a defense, while the third style allows for the summoning of an ice aura and a shield for more defensive play.

And since I had already confessed to the character flaw of being a lazy lout (# 283) I should use that as a defense.

Beyond its use as a defense against future litigation, a well - preserved court record can also prevent waiver and assist appellate courts in understanding the trial.

This concept is often one of the most difficult obstacles for premises liability plaintiffs to overcome and property owners frequently use it as a defense.

A person's susceptibility to injury may not be used as a defense in a personal injury case.

The provisions regarding special programs can not be used as a defense in place of a service provider's responsibility to accommodate disability short of undue hardship.

Commenters also noted that this could result in inconsistency in implementation as well as permitting such inconsistency to be used as a defense by an offending entity.

The good news: If you have a legitimate business reason for not participating in Section 8, that can be used as a defense — just be well armed to defend it — or check with your local fair housing office to see if they agree.

It was also used as a defense against the Ottoman Empire in the 1400s, and over the next few centuries, it served as a customs point.

This Title also establishes that a violation of these minimum standards by a creditor can be used as a defense by a borrower to set off or recoup damages.

Not exact matches

Speaking by phone from Detroit, Eight Mile Style publisher Joel Martin said he'd been infuriated during the trial by the defense's absurd contention that «Lose Yourself» wasn't original because it used the same chords as other songs.

Taiwan's defense ministry accused China of using «cheap verbal intimidation and saber rattling» to threaten them as China began a massive live - fire military drill in the Taiwan Strait, stoking tensions in the area.

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) may be best known for military and defense use, but commercialization of the sector is occurring as recent technological developments have led to more uses for UAS at reduced costs and required manpower.

The ancient tower that now serves as a roof terrace could again be used for a classic defense site.

Also banned: instructions on «on how to make or use weapons if the goal is to injure or kill people,» unless there is «clear context that the content is for an alternative purpose (for example, shared as part of recreational self - defense activities, training by a country's military, commercial video games, or news coverage).»

Mainland courts inclined to support Puerto Rico's sovereignty have precedents that can be used as a basis for rulings in favor of the defense.

However, on the other hand, the argument could be made that parodies in the adult context would qualify for a fair use defense, as with other parodies.

«As ISIS - K's losses have mounted, they are using IEDs, bunkers, and tunnels to thicken their defense,» Gen. John W. Nicholson, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, said in the statement.

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A Virginia - based defense firm known as Artis, developer of the Iron Curtain APS system, uses two independent sensors, radar and optical, along with high - speed computing and counter munitions to detect and intercept approaching fire, according to multiple reports.

Inc. spoke with armored truck manufacturer Lenco and rifle manufacturer Daniel Defense to see how their businesses could be affected and how it felt as a business owner to see their products being used in Ferguson.

As a first line of defense from hackers, users should always be protecting themselves by using long, uniquely generated passwords.

«If President Trump had ordered the strike only to show that the US responded to [Syrian President Bashar] Assad's use of chemical weapons, then that goal has been achieved,» Israel's Ynetnews quoted a senior defense official as saying.

The first involved establishing personal contact with Americans perceived as sympathetic to Moscow — such as former Defense Intelligence Agency chief Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and early Trump foreign - policy adviser Carter Page — and using them as a means to further Russia's foreign - policy goals.

Excelitas makes products such as light - emitting diodes (LEDs) and flash lamps which are used in applications ranging from medical lighting to aerospace and defense equipment.

Using the Plausible Deniability defense, they claimed that they weren't even in the loop when it came to paying AIG enough to turn around and pay Goldman Sachs and other arbitrageurs 100 cents on the dollar for securities worth about a fifth as much.

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Aside from acceptable «basis» risk between the stocks we hold long and the indices we use to hedge, and perhaps 1 % of assets in option time - premium at any given time as a result of staggering our strikes to provide a stronger defense, we don't consider various speculative bubbles as threats to our own returns.

Paul states in an interview that he likes Switzerland's «very successful national defense,» and adds «there is no reason that we can't use that as a starting point.»

KAI is using its Lockheed connection as a selling point to Israel, especially in view of the company's concern that someone at the Ministry of Defense is evading them and holding secret talks with Alenia Aermacchi, ostensibly following orders to do so.

Slingshot Aerospace is using artificial intelligence to provide detailed reports about the earth to industries such as Defense, insurance, and energy.

Giving or taking access to items doesn't matter (so long as the item itself isn't evil) but a firearm is nothing but a tool... no different than a hammer or a saw... using it for self defense is openly condoned by the Bible.

For that reason it has been a classroom staple for me as a political science professor... I'll be using it this semester to show American politics students the sort of thing the founders were trying to avoid, and I often use it with political philosophy students as a foil to Aristotle's defense of the democratic element in a polity.

They are members of a nationwide group known as The Initiative Collective — a volunteer crime prevention outfit that encourages people to fight back against violence using self - defense, armor and theatrics — in addition to doing general good deeds like fundraising, feeding the homeless and offering free martial arts training to anyone who wants it.

Also slavery was justified using the Bible as its defense.

And I have sought to show, using Hartshorne as a concrete example, how a dialectical defense provides the ultimate support for one's claims about experience and its essential temporality and how that dialectic rests on claims quite remote from any direct or straightforward reading of experience, whether private or public.

I appreciate what you are saying but this is the same stuff that is used ad nauseum as a defense of seeking something true and beyond oneself.

Sometimes religion can be used by the patients as an effective defense against facing their problems realistically, but at other times it can be a powerful motivating and integrating force.

As Jason Langley, an attorney with Denver - based Kennedy Childs, argued in one of the briefs he filed for the defense, the court «should not overturn the long - standing rule in Colorado that the term «person,» as is used in the Wrongful Death Act, encompasses only individuals born alivAs Jason Langley, an attorney with Denver - based Kennedy Childs, argued in one of the briefs he filed for the defense, the court «should not overturn the long - standing rule in Colorado that the term «person,» as is used in the Wrongful Death Act, encompasses only individuals born alivas is used in the Wrongful Death Act, encompasses only individuals born alive.