According to Article 91 of the constitution, the CDN is " the consultative body of the president of the republic in matters related to national sovereignty and the defense of the democratic state.

According to the document the military of the Republic of Bulgaria should include two mechanized brigades, four regiments ( Logistics, Artillery, Engineering, SpecOps ), four battalions ( Reconnaissance, Mechanized, NBC, PsyOps ) in the Land Forces ; Fighter base, helicopter base, SAM air defense brigade and Air force training base in the Air Force ; and two naval bases in the Navy.

According to an eight-state study, the insanity defense is used in less than 1 % of all court cases and, when used, has only a 26 % success rate.

" According to Carr, the " bastion " created by means of the Pact, " was and could only be, a line of defense against potential German attack.

According to law professor Douglas O. Linder, McVeigh wanted Jones to present a " necessity defense "— which would argue that he was in " imminent danger " from the government ( that his bombing was intended to prevent future crimes by the government, such as the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents ).

According to Buoniconti, the Dolphins ' priority on defense was to stop Larry Brown and force Kilmer to pass.

" According to David Halberstam's book, The Education of a Coach, Belichick was given a choice by the NFL to introduce either the offense or defense.

According to the EMP Commission Executive Report of 2004, " In general, it would not be an issue for critical infrastructure systems since they have existing protective measures for defense against occasional lightning strikes.

According to psychoanalytic theory, neuroses may be rooted in ego defense mechanisms, but the two concepts are not synonymous.

According to J. Michael Jaffe, author of Gender, Pseudonyms, and CMC: Masking Identities and Baring Souls, " the Internet was originally established to expedite communication between governmental scientists and defense experts, and was not at all intended to be the popular ' interpersonal mass medium ' it has become ", yet new and revolutionary devices enabling the mass public to communicate online are constantly being developed and released.

According to two researchers, Nesse and Williams, diarrhea may function as an evolved expulsion defense mechanism.

According to the defense, the ruling recognizes that there is no empirical evidence that khat is harmful.

According to Peter Andreas, a border theorist, the creation of DHS constituted the most significant government reorganization since the Cold War, and the most substantial reorganization of federal agencies since the National Security Act of 1947, which placed the different military departments under a secretary of defense and created the National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency.

According to the memoirs of Trần Văn Trà, the Viet Cong's top commander and PRG defense minister, he followed orders issued by the " Military Commission of the Party Central Committee " in Hanoi, which in turn implemented resolutions of the Politburo.

According to Josephus, Joab did not kill Abner out of revenge, because he had forgiven him for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had twice warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.

According to Enthoven and Smith, the basic ideas of PPBS were: " the attempt to put defense program issues into a broader context and to search for explicit measures of national need and adequacy "; " consideration of military needs and costs together "; " explicit consideration of alternatives at the top decision level "; " the active use of an analytical staff at the top policymaking levels "; " a plan combining both forces and costs which projected into the future the foreseeable implications of current decisions "; and " open and explicit analysis, that is, each analysis should be made available to all interested parties, so that they can examine the calculations, data, and assumptions and retrace the steps leading to the conclusions.

According to Cornelius Nepos, in his defense Epaminondas merely requested that, if he be executed, the inscription regarding the verdict read: Epaminondas was punished by the Thebans with death, because he obliged them to overthrow the Lacedaemonians at Leuctra, whom, before he was general, none of the Boeotians durst look upon in the field, and because he not only, by one battle, rescued Thebes from destruction, but also secured liberty for all Greece, and brought the power of both people to such a condition, that the Thebans attacked Sparta, and the Lacedaemonians were content if they could save their lives ; nor did he cease to prosecute the war, till, after settling Messene, he shut up Sparta with a close siege.

According to Asahara's defense team, a group of senior followers initiated the atrocities, keeping them a secret from Asahara.

According to legend, the Caliph had his tent surrounded with a bodyguard of slave-warriors who were chained together as a defense.

According to boxing historian Monte Cox, Young ought to have been declared winner based on " clean punching, defense and ring generalship " Some claimed that Young's performance should have earned him a rematch.

According to Herodotus, the Spartan general Pausanias led an allied Greek defense against Mardonius ' Persian forces.

According to the Revenge of the Sith Incredible Cross-sections by Dr. Curtis Saxton, and according to the film's visual dictionary, Itchy was involved in the Battle of Kashyyyk as a gunner aboard an Oevvaor jet catamaran in the defense of Kachirho during the Battle of Kashyyyk.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, many of Koch Industries ' contributions have gone toward achieving legislation on energy issues, defense appropriations and financial regulatory reform.

According to Lance Hill, “ Thomas was eager to work with CORE, but he had reservations about the nonviolent terms imposed by the young activists .” Thomas, who had military training, quickly emerged as the leader of this budding defense organization that would guard the Jonesboro community in the day with their guns concealed and carried their guns openly during the cover of night to discourage any Klan activity.

According to a study of male physicians, life expectancy is slightly higher for physicians ( 73. 0 years for white and 68. 7 for black ) than lawyers or many other highly educated professionals.

According to the Supreme Court Historical Society, 20 goose-quill pens, neatly crossed, are placed at the four counsel tables each day the U. S. Supreme Court is in session ; " most lawyers appear before the Court only once, and gladly take the quills home as souvenirs.

According to a May 2008 posting on The Comics Journal's website, the second effort " resulted in waves of lawyers raining upon the strip ’ s creators, ultimately leading to Kurtzman and Elder handing the copyright to the story over to Archie and signing an agreement promising never to reproduce it again.

According to the Libel Act 1843, proving the truth of the accusation and a public interest in its exposure was a defence against a libel charge, and Wilde's lawyers concluded that the prostitutes ' testimony was likely to do that.

According to lawyers, males are becoming more aggressive in the pursuit of alimony awards as the stigma associated with asking for alimony fades.

According to reports from his jailers ( including Horst Bubeck ), the defendants, especially Baader, kept their cells as dirty and disgusting as possible in order to discourage searches for items that might be smuggled in ; at this time lawyers and defendants were not separated by panes of glass during unsupervised meetings, as evidenced by photos taken by inmates.

According to the new law, the old system of selecting lawyers by examination will be phased out by 2013 and the U. S .- style law schools will be the sole route to become a lawyer.

According to one of his lawyers, Avigdor Feldman, he believed the prosecution did not have enough evidence to convict him.

" According to Freeman, Minkow had even lied to his own lawyers about his behavior.

According to the Association of University Staff of New Zealand ( AUS ) in 2007, New Zealand universities, including the University of Auckland, had been taking a more litigious approach to managing their staff in recent years and engaged lawyers and employment advocates to handle even minor matters.

According to Edwin Rekosh, Executive Director of PILnet: The Global Network for Public Interest Law ( www. pilnet. org ), " public interest law does not describe a body of law or a legal field ; the term was adopted to describe whom the public interest lawyers were representing, rather than what matters they would work on.

According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, the industries that have been the largest contributors to Grassley during his political career are health professionals ($ 1 million in contributions ), insurance industry ($ 997, 674 ), lawyers / law firms ($ 625, 543 ) and pharmaceuticals / health products ($ 538, 680 ).

According to one lawyer, the only people allowed into Muluzi's home by the police were four lawyers and a bodyguard, and he had been asked to name family members and lawyers who would be given permission to visit.

According to Broadcasting & Cable, the challenges raised " the specter of costly legal battles to defend station holdings .... At a minimum, defending against one would cost tens of thousands of dollars in lawyers ' fees and probably delay license renewal about three months.

According to the ABA, it " provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public.

According to some sources, Landis left two suicide notes, one for her mother and the second for Harrison who instructed his lawyers to destroy it.

According to Holmes, lawyers and judges are not logicians and mathematicians.

According to this bill, lawyers will be watched by the Iranian ministry of Intelligence and their credential depends on the approval of the intelligence service.

According to the organization's constitution, " The purpose of The Order is to encourage excellence in legal education by fostering a spirit of careful study, recognizing those who as law students attained a high grade of scholarship, and honoring those who as lawyers, judges and teachers attained high distinction for their scholarly or professional accomplishments.

According to U. S. lawyers who represent him, in January 2002 he was sent to the U. S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Alexander Yakovenko, Spokesman :" According to our information, the Bulgarian medics ' lawyers intend to appeal this decision in the Supreme Court of Libya.

According to critics, the outcome of the trial was due to the underhanded conduct of the government and to the obvious rift between the lawyers and the accused.

According to the 2001 Code of Criminal Procedure, defense lawyers can participate in investigations with the consent of the prosecutor, meet privately with a client, collect evidence independently of the prosecutor, identify defense witnesses, present expert witnesses, be present for all court procedures, access to the prosecutions evidence after the investigation, and to file appeals regarding court procedures.