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self-defense
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self-defense

In criminal law, an affirmative defense (e.g., to a murder charge) alleging that the defendant used serious force necessarily for self-protection. The claim of self-defense must normally rely on a reasonable belief that the other party intended to inflict great bodily harm or death and that avoidance by retreating was impossible. See also homicide.
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Approximately one-third of those reported the aggression as self-defensive measures, one-third as mutual aggression, and another one-third as both mutual and self-defensive.
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In my opinion, this fight between artists and critics, which is said to force artists into a self-defensive need to write themselves, is a pseudo-antagonism.
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In the letter, Paul engaged in a self-defensive polemic (Gal 1:1; 1:20; 2:6, 6:17).
Paul and the victims of his persecution: the opponents in Galatia by Cook, Richard B. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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