The defenders of hunting and ritual slaughter asserted that lawful violence is in fact non-violence ; according to them sacrificial killing is not killing, but is meant for the welfare of the whole world.

And yet, the connection of all Christians is also asserted, albeit in a way that defenders of this view usually decline, often intentionally, to elaborate more clearly or consistently.

Kerkyra, the " Door of Venice " during the centuries when the whole Adriatic was the Gulf of Venice, remained in Venetian hands from 1401 until 1797, though several times assailed by Turkish naval and land forces and subjected to four notable sieges in 1537, 1571, 1573 and 1716, in which the great natural strength of the city and its defenders asserted itself time after time.

Custer's defenders, however, including historian Charles K. Hofling, have asserted that Gatling guns would have been slow and cumbersome as the troops crossed the rough country between the Yellowstone and the Little Bighorn.

Critics of Goerdeler such as the American political scientist Daniel Goldhagen have asserted that, because Goerdeler published a list of " non-Aryan " physicians to be excluded from practicing under public insurance, Goerdeler was an anti-Semite ; by contrast, Goerdeler's defenders like the Canadian historian Peter Hoffmann have argued that Goerdeler's insistence on enforcing the laws served to protect those Jewish physicians entitled to practice.

However, defenders of Pope Pius XII have asserted that Herzog had maintained friendly relations with the pontiff during and after the WW2.

We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

The ten outfield players may be arranged in these positions in any combination ( for example, there may be three defenders, five midfielders, and two forwards ), and the number of players in each position determines the style of the team's play ; more forwards and fewer defenders would create a more aggressive and offensive-minded game, while the reverse would create a slower, more defensive style of play.

Coubertin may have played a role in such a movement, but his defenders argue that he did so unconscious of any class repercussions.

A besieging army must be prepared to repel both sorties from the besieged area and also any attack that may try to relieve the defenders.

They may cut in towards the disc and attempt to find an open avenue between defenders for a short pass, or they may cut away from the disc towards the deep field.

Daley's ways may not have been democratic, but his defenders have argued that he got positive things done for Chicago which a non-boss would have been unable to do.

One may also note that the assignment of the colors of brown or red to the defenders and fair or white to the attackers is consistent with Friðþjófs saga.

Alternatively, húnn may refer to the king, his " eight horns " referring to the eight defenders, which is more consistent with the latter translation, " He has the name of a bear and escapes when he is attacked.

There is some controversy concerning the widely reported imbalance of the game, as the rules strongly favor the king, although there are several rule modifications that can produce more balanced play, such as a weaponless king ( the king cannot participate in captures ), escape to the corners ( rather than to the edges ), or hostile attacker camps ( the king and defenders may be captured against a vacant attacker camp square ).

The outcomes of an invasion may vary according to the objectives of both invaders and defenders, the success of the invasion and the defense, and the presence or absence of an agreed settlement between the warring parties.

To avoid this, it is often favorable for cornerbacks to either: " switch " assignments ( where he will agree beforehand to trade assignments with one of his fellow defenders in the event that the receivers criss-cross as the play begins ), or alternatively, a corner may instead line up close enough to the receiver ( very close ) at the line of scrimmage to force or jam him toward the sideline ( outside ) without violating the 5 yard no touch rule.

Critics from defenders of proprietorship sometimes assert that the All People's Right threatens the essence of ownership and the " management practices " of property owners, who may or may not have created and preserved environmentally important qualities Private owners and their representatives have also argued that newly created access rights ought to lead to financial compensation for private landowners, though they tend to also argue that there should be no corresponding compensation for people who historically tended now-expropriated land in common, with proven ecological records — for example, aboriginals.

However the determination of the Ottoman defenders, and the threat from large Ottoman reinforcements approaching from the north and north east, which may not have been held off indefinitely by the depleted mounted screen, were probably responsible for the decision to withdraw.

Particularly in the case of draw plays, he may run a pass route with the intent of drawing off defenders.

From here he may choose to pass back to a defenceman on the point, go down the boards to a winger behind the net, or drive the net itself hoping to draw defenders to him.

As it is advantageous for one of the defenders to have the stronger hand, they may agree as to which is to exchange first.

Molly may have been a widow who was evicted from her house, inspiring her defenders to form a secret society to exact retribution.

These human resources may help defenders provide more professional service than an appointed lawyer without this type of staff or funds to employ them.

In US civil cases ( e. g., personal injury or a landlord-tenant dispute ), public defenders may be appointed in civil cases that are quasi-criminal in nature ( e. g., removal of children from parents and civil commitments for alleged sexually violent predators ) or in highly unusual situations where the civil proceedings may be highly connected to criminal proceedings ; otherwise indigent litigants are referred to a legal aid office.

Nowhere before in Malraux's pages have we met such impassioned defenders of a `` quality of man '' which transcends the realm of politics and even the realm of action altogether -- both the action of Malraux's early anarchist-adventurers like Perken and Garine, and the self-sacrificing action of dedicated Communists like Kyo Gisors and Katow in Man's Fate.

Such defenders, or rather destroyers, of the church, have caused themselves to be called abbots, and presumed to attribute to themselves a title, as well as estates, to which they have no just claim.

Clinton's defenders argue that an executive order might have prompted the Senate to write the exclusion of gays into law, potentially making it harder to integrate the military in the future.

Some ecclesiastical officials are required to have the doctorate ( JCD ) or at least the licentiate ( JCL ) in canon law in order to fulfill their functions: judicial vicars ( c. 1419. 1 ), judges ( c. 1421. 3 ), promoters of justice ( c. 1435 ), defenders of the bond ( c. 1435 ).

The synod, chaired by controversial Patriarch Meletius IV of Constantinople, and called Pan-Orthodox by its defenders, did not have representatives from the remaining Orthodox members of the original Pentarchy ( the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria ) or from the largest Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, then under persecution from the Bolsheviks, but only effective representation from the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Serbian Patriarch.

If sufficiently desperate as the siege progressed, defenders and civilians might have been reduced to eating anything vaguely edible-horses, family pets, the leather from shoes, and even each other.

The trenches connecting the various lines of the besiegers could not be built perpendicular to the walls of the fortress, as the defenders would have a clear line of fire along the whole trench.

These close defenders always position themselves relative to the disc, meaning that they have to move quickly as it passes from handler to handler.

Therefore the handler will normally have to throw into the cup, allowing the defenders to more easily make blocks.

The defenders of a town wall are trying to set the ram alight with torches and have also put a chain under it.

Though defenders on a high ground already have a direct line of sight, a glacis allows defenders to sweep the field more efficiently by minimizing changes to the angle of their guns while firing.

Since around 1970, the significant national Belgian political parties have split into distinct representations for each communities ' interests besides defenders of their ideologies.

The problem with this is: how would de la Peña have been able to distinguish Travis from any of the other defenders of the Alamo?

In addition to this, the Mexican Army had not breached the walls of the Alamo when Travis was killed, therefore they would have been seeing him from an area below the walls, while being fired down upon by the defenders.

They have many additional officials like public defenders, arts commissioners, human rights commissioners, and planning commissioners.

Such military engineering feats would have been completely new, and probably bewildering and demoralizing, to the Gallic defenders.

Although these square keeps would later prove to have vulnerabilities, the ballistae and mangonels used in the 1140s were significantly less powerful than the later trebuchet designs, giving defenders a substantial advantage over attackers.