I did not intend to fight unless it became necessary in self-defense and in the performance of official duty.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

The killer murdered someone, not in self-defense, or because he was reacting to anger or fear.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

And third,he could not be guilty of murder, because he had killed only in self-defense.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Pahlevani is a form of physical training for self-defense.

VOA: special.2010.12.01

The Israelis said they acted in self-defense when they were attacked by pro-Palestinian activists wielding clubs and knives.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

Lebanese officials continue to insist Israeli forces crossed into Lebanese territory and the Lebanese Army acted in self-defense.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Addressing the General Assembly, Israel's Ambassador Gabriela Shalev repeated her government's position that Israel was acting in self-defense.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley said guns in the home - even for self-defense - kill innocent people.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Israel says its three-week assault on the Gaza Strip was an act of legitimate self-defense in response to years of Palestinian rocket attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

The military has set up and equipped a number of volunteer self-defense networks in the south.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

Israel's Cabinet angrily rejected the United Nations resolution, saying the army's three-week assault on the Gaza Strip last December and January was legitimate self-defense.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

Republicans on the committee wanted stronger language, which they inserted in a Republican alternative to the main legislation,regarding U.S.support for Israel and its missile self-defense projects.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Israeli military officials point to video that shows activists hitting the commandos with iron bars and chairs, and say the soldiers acted in self-defense when they opened fire.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

"The Human Rights Council mandates for the report specifically targeted Israeli actions, ignoring,ignoring the deliberate Hamas attacks on civilians that provoked Israel's self-defense in Operation Cast Lead .

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Lebanon said the Israelis had crossed into Lebanese territory while trying to prune a cypress tree for better visibility, and that the army acted in self-defense against Israeli "aggression."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

So it started as self-defense, but I think some operators, they realized very quickly that with piracy you can earn much more money than you can as a descent fisherman.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

They have been repeatedly displaced by fighting between the nation's largest guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,or FARC, and a right-wing paramilitary group called the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

Our naval servicemen were acting in self-defense."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

He dismissed as "biased and unjust" a U.N.Human Rights Council report that accused Israel of war crimes during its December Gaza offensive, saying his country was acting in self-defense against militant rocket fire.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

In 2008,the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense, striking down a Washington,D.C.law that banned the possession of handguns in the home.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

(...) Steinitz said it is an anti-Semitic resolution in which the same right of self-defense that is allowed to the United States in Afghanistan and Russia in Chechnya is denied to Israel in the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

Besides urging the Obama administration to oppose any further consideration of the Goldstone report in multi-lateral forums, or measures stemming from it, the resolution also reaffirms support for Israel's security and right to self-defense, and its right to defend its citizens from violent militant groups and their state sponsors.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04