America wants to bin the ABM treaty because it prevents it building a defence against missiles.
This could provide a defence against future emissions regulations or perhaps help it grab green subsidies.
He is seeking a court declaration that any doctor who killed him would have a defence against such a charge.
The intelligence agency's director Iain Lobban said the country's future economic prosperity rested on ensuring a defence against such assaults.
Mr Lamb is seeking a court declaration that any doctor who helped him to die would have a defence against a charge of murder.
Supporters, however, believe citizens deserve and need such a document, partly as a defence against any future governments that might attempt to limit their rights.
Some employers' representatives welcomed the rulings because they at last spelled out a defence against harassment suits, namely a strict and strictly enforced anti-harassment policy.
Calzaghe, 33, won the IBF title from America's Jeff Lacy in sensational fashion in March but was forced to abandon a defence against Glen Johnson this July.
The next argument is a defence against charges that Germany has acted selfishly in this economic crisis, by organising national stimulus measures and resisting Europe wide schemes for things like the car industry.
For her experiment she studied the inheritance of three traits: a maroon coloured leaf marking, a white V-shaped leaf mark pattern, and the production of hydrogen cyanide in damaged leaves, which is thought to be a defence against predators.
He faces a mandatory defence against Andreas Kotelnik, but has been seeking a mandatory defence before that and WBA-ranked number three Salita will provide a stiff test.
The GAA mounts a vigorous defence against compensation claims made by injured pitch invaders but it is a measure of the sheer number of these claims that, despite the association's success in many cases, it still loses enough to have such a huge annual bill.
After winning the title in 2007 he made a successful first defence against Welshman Gary Lockett, then lost a non-title fight against Bernard Hopkins, before returning to defeat Rubio earlier this year.
This should help to unlock cross-holdings of shares and remove a key defence against hostile takeovers.
Haye, who defeated giant Russian Nikolay Valuev in November, first faces a mandatory defence against American John Ruiz.
But it would appear that Khan has turned down those opportunities to make a mandatory defence against Salita.
After IBF and WBO champion Wladimir Klitschko pulled out of a title defence against Derek Chisora, his US advisors met with Haye's American advisors.
The few moments of radio silence that precede the six o'clock and midnight news bulletins on Radio 4 are a vital defence against the noisy evangelists of now.
For the residents of Kinmen Island, a frontline in the defence against a communist invasion of Taiwan, those good times were the days of handsome brick villages, a thickly forested landscape, raucous festivals in tribute to protective deities and kilometres of sandy beaches free of terrifying landmines.
The title could become vacant if Braehmer - who pulled out of a 17 July defence against Vikapita 'Beast Master' Meroro because of injury - fails in his appeal against a 16-month prison sentence for assault and insulting behaviour.
"This is a big title defence for me against a tough challenger and I will be counting on my fans to turn up on fight night as they always do to give me great support, " he said.
As well as spreading the Word, the proliferation of churches provides a measure of defence against intimidation.
Plaid Cymru spelled out how the Chancellor could, in their view, afford Wales "a measure of defence against cuts".
The government still organises a self-defence force against the remaining factions of the Shining Path.
However, experts are hopeful that some existing drugs could provide an important first line of defence against a future pandemic.
But it was difficult against a defence that did not come out.
But most seem to think the best defence against a legal assault is to produce a relatively timid redistricting plan in the first place.
For Iraq, persuading the world that it is worth continuing with inspections, however slowly it ekes out its co-operation with them, is its main diplomatic line of defence against a war.
"It's hard to say as it can be very untidy against a rush defence, " he said.
The idea that a bomb is the only defence against an implacable American enemy might become stronger than ever.
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