In Blanche's defense, it must be said she was unaware of the newborn hope.

He looked piously to heaven and said, `` Beer don't affect the tissues none '', and the ingenious hypocrisy of this defense pleased Henrietta so that she forgave him his stint of malevolence.

The defense counsel will then make a " plea in mitigation " ( also called " submissions on penalty ") wherein he or she will attempt to mitigate the relative seriousness of the offense and heavily refer to and rely upon the defendant's previous good character and good works ( if any ).

In her trials in 1889, Kotaka demonstrated that she could exceed the role of coastal defense, and was capable of accompanying larger warships on the high seas.

While colloquially, a person may term a law suit to be frivolous if he or she personally finds a claim to be absurd, in legal usage " frivolous litigation " consists of a claim or defense that is presented where the party ( or the party's legal counsel ) had reason to know that the claim or defense was manifestly insufficient or futile.

In 2000, the SEC enacted Rule 10b5-1, which defined trading " on the basis of " inside information as any time a person trades while aware of material nonpublic informationso that it is no defense for one to say that she would have made the trade anyway.

At her sentencing hearing, Olson's teenage daughter Leila, her pastor, and her husband spoke in her defense, while Olson's mother claimed on the stand that Olson had never been a part of the SLA and spoke against prosecutors and police she asserted had harassed the family.

If the court satisfies itself that the defendant fully acknowledges the consequences of the plea agreement, and he / she was represented by the defense council, his / her will is expressed in full compliance with the legislative requirements without deception and coercion, also if there is enough body of doubtless evidence for the conviction and the agreement is reached on legitimate sentence-the court approves the plea agreement and renders guilty judgment.

Her prominence led Joseph Stilwell to quip that she ought to be appointed minister of defense.

As Christine builds her city, she uses each famous woman as a building block for not only the walls and houses of the city, but also as building blocks for her defense of female rights.

Ono's final album of the 1980s was Starpeace, a concept album that she intended as an antidote to Ronald Reagan's " Star Wars " missile defense system.

She will " sit " or " set " on the nest, protesting or pecking in defense if disturbed or removed, and she will rarely leave the nest to eat, drink, or dust-bathe.

After Longstreet's death, his second wife Helen privately published Lee and Longstreet at High Tide in his defense, in which she stated " the South was seditiously taught to believe that the Federal Victory was wholly the fortuitous outcome of the culpable disobedience of General Longstreet.

When Amanda hears this, she seeks out Doris and, to Adam's dismay, becomes her defense lawyer.

Over the course of the series, she is often revealed to be quite cynical and even loudly obnoxious sometimes, especially towards her husband, Pete ; in which she also tends to many times be overbearing towards, especially in defense of their neighbor, Goofy, who she yet is amiable towards, on one occasion going so far as kissing him.

In the U. S., Thompson launched an appeal which raised more than $ 40, 000 in a few weeks: she asked that Jews not donate to the fund, so that the Nazis could not attribute Grynszpan's defense to a Jewish conspiracy.

High additionally states that Syn is " appointed in defense " at things " in legal matters in which she wishes to refute " and that her name is connected to a saying where " a denial ( syn ) is made when one says no.

Her unsuccessful legal defense claimed that she suffered from Stockholm Syndrome and was coerced into aiding the SLA.

A defendant using the gay panic defense claims that he or she acted in a state of violent temporary insanity because of a little-known psychiatric condition called homosexual panic.

In some jurisdictions, certain types of murders automatically qualify for capital punishment, but if the defendant in a capital case is sufficiently mentally disabled in the United States he or she may not be executed, for reasons described in Atkins v. Virginia, similar to those utilizing an insanity defense.

A Free Soul is a 1931 Pre-Code film which tells the story of an alcoholic defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with ; a mobster whom her father had previously got an acquittal for on a murder charge.

In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

Though put in rather maudlin terms, Steele's defense of himself has a reasonable basis.

The Rusk belief in balanced defense, replacing the Dulles theory of massive retaliation, removes a grave danger that has existed.

They feel that World War 3, has already begun, and they are setting themselves up as a `` last line of defense '' against the Communist advance.

We cannot regard foreign policy as something left over after defense policy or trade policy or fiscal policy has been extracted.

This has necessitated a continuous review and reevaluation of the defense program in order to redirect resources to the newer and more important weapons systems and to eliminate or reduce effort on weapons systems which have been overtaken by events.

It has been correctly pointed out by well-informed people in the industry that it is probably unrealistic to expect a continuation of the yearly growth of 15% or better that characterized the decade of the 1950's, and that our military markets may be entering upon a new phase in which procurement of multiple weapons systems will give way to concentration of still undeveloped areas of our defense capability.

The stepped-up defense procurement called for in the 1961 Budget has already begun to make itself felt in an upturn in orders for military electronic equipment and the components that go into it, and it has been suggested that an additional $2 billion increase in total defense spending may be requested for fiscal 1962.

This concept has stimulated much basic research concerning the behavior of particulate biological materials, the pathogenesis of respiratory infections, the medical management of such diseases and defense against their occurrence.

This is why this approach to BW defense has not been given major attention.

The submarine now has a definite place in submarine defense particularly in denying enemy access to ocean areas.

Thinking on submarine defense has not always been clear-cut.

To this point the need for an over-all plan for submarine defense has been demonstrated, the mission has been stated, broad principles delineating its content laid down, and the supporting elements listed.

East Providence now has no civil defense program.

Noting that President Kennedy has handed the Defense Department the major responsibility for the nation's civil defense program, Mr. Hawksley said the federal government would pay half the salary of a full-time local director.

A & M has the best defense against passes, 34.7 yards per game.

Some jurisdictions allow force to be used in defense of property, to prevent damage either in its own right, or under one or both of the preceding classes of defense in that a threat or attempt to damage property might be considered a crime ( in English law, under s5 Criminal Damage Act 1971 it may be argued that the defendant has a lawful excuse to damaging property during the defense and a defense under s3 Criminal Law Act 1967 ) subject to the need to deter vigilantes and excessive self-help.

One advantage that would come to the city in having a full-time director, he said, is that East Providence would become eligible to apply to the federal government for financial aid in purchasing equipment needed for a sound civil defense program.

Speaking of the present status of civil defense in the city, Mr. Hawksley said he would be willing to bet that not more than one person in a hundred would know what to do or where to go in the event of an enemy attack.

If the city council fails to consider appointment of a full-time CD director, Mr. Hawksley said, then he plans to call a meeting early in September so that a civil defense organization will be developed locally.

In July 2009, the minister of defense, Nelson Jobim, said that Brazil will expend about 0. 7 % ( US $ 13 billion ) of the GDP per year to modernize the forces in addition to the 2. 6 % yearly defense budget.

The authors of the U. S. Army's Area Handbook series said at the time that '.. the Army and Gendarmery ( sic ) were effective forces in being, but the Navy and Air Force were token forces primarily for prestige and with little actual defense value.

It is said that the rivalry was fueled in the 1970s due to the stark contrast of the teams: the Cowboys, being more of a " flashy " team with Roger Staubach's aerial attack and the " flex " Doomsday Defense ; while the Steelers were more of a " blue-collar " team with a strong running game and the 1970s-esque Steel Curtain defense, a contrast that still exists today.

" He said, " we recognize the imperative need for this development ... the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist ... Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

At trial, the defense team argued that news articles from the time could have been the source for Echols ' knowledge about the genital mutilation, but the prosecution claimed that Echols ' knowledge, which Echols said was limited to what was " on TV ", was nonetheless too close to the actual facts, since there was no public knowledge of drowning or that one victim had been mutilated more than the others.

Despite his admiration and defense for religions like Christianity, he is said to be an agnostic.

In 1981, Ariel Roth, in defense of the creation science position in the trial McLean v. Arkansas, said of " complex integrated structures " that " This system would not be functional until all the parts were there ... How did these parts survive during evolution ...?

On the other hand, if someone adopts a simple relativist stance as an ad hoc defense of a controversial or otherwise compromised position — saying, in effect, that " what is true for you is not necessarily true for me ," and thereby attempting to avoid having to mount any further defense of the position — one might be said to have committed a fallacy.

In Milgram's defense, 84 percent of former participants surveyed later said they were " glad " or " very glad " to have participated, 15 percent chose neutral responses ( 92 % of all former participants responding ).

However, defense attorneys defended Feldman, and two ethics experts said there is absolutely no evidence Westerfield's attorneys committed any violations of the California Rules of Professional Conduct.

Westerfield, who continued to maintain his innocence, said that the prosecution approached the defense with the suggestion, and his lawyers simply listened to the offer.

In their defense, the Social Text editors said they believed that " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity " " was the earnest attempt of a professional scientist to seek some kind of affirmation from postmodern philosophy for developments in his field " and that " its status as parody does not alter, substantially, our interest in the piece, itself, as a symptomatic document.

Unlike the others, he said lowering taxes, increasing defense spending, and balancing the budget was an impossible combination.

So that a hasty verdict was brought in against him, and the question being asked, if he had anything to say, why judgement should not pass, he only said, that since the Court had refused to hear what was fit for him to speak in his defense, he had no more to say ; upon which Bridgeman pronounced the sentence.

The defense of greed is a paraphrase of the May 18, 1986, commencement address at the UC Berkeley's School of Business Administration, delivered by arbitrageur Ivan Boesky ( who himself was later convicted of insider-trading charges ), in which he said, " Greed is all right, by the way.

The word and its meaning have been publicized by defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, notably in a 1994 New York Times article, " Accomplices to Perjury ," in which he said:

" In a 1996 article in the Los Angeles Times, " Has the Drug War Created an Officer Liars ' Club ?," Joseph D. McNamara, then chief of police of San Jose, said " Not many people took defense attorney Alan M. Dershowitz seriously when he charged that Los Angeles cops are taught to lie at the birth of their careers at the Police Academy.