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...k. She could have easily caught her captor by surprise and kneed him in the groin or better yet gouged his eyes out if she wanted to. Having taught self-defense classes at Global Nation for the past two years, she was not about to lose her advantage of her hidden talent till she ascertained what kind of weapon he carried. “Have a seat on the bed.” Unsure of what his i...

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... I was thinking.” “Yes, I noticed. Maybe if you did less thinking and more self-defense, I wouldn’t have to save your butt all the time.” Britta hand... ...y trying to get the dirt stains off. “I’m saying, Chica, you should take a self-defense course next semester. It’ll make Violet and her cronies think... ... genius like you. As for Violet, I already told you what to do. Take some self-defense courses, for heaven’s sakes!” “Oh. Uh, if it’s not either of t...

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... of the police interview room. “I am not paying for that damn dog. It was self-defense. The dog attacked him!” “Mrs. Jackson,” Julia said. “Domi...

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...be times when an enemy may disarm you or you could be caught with no weapon. Self-defense is a valuable asset to any knight's collection of skills. ... ...boys were reduced to size, the duke announced that from now on, wrestling and self-defense was his class. “Each week, I’ll pick two fighters to show...

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...re we must necessarily ask a question: doesn’t the principle of legitimate self-defense apply to Ulysses as well as to others? Was Ulysses supposed...

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...arting well-aimed blows past the arms Falkner raised in a failing attempt at self-defense. “I’ll teach you not to show your scumface around here aga...

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...oked like a high-handed proceeding; but it was really a case of legitimate self-defense. Y ou can’t breathe dead hippo wak- ing, sleeping, and eating,...

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...braham Lincoln: V ol Six to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they... ...alive to defend him. I presume, however, we shall have no rest from it. In self-defense I am disposed to say, “Make a selection and send it to me.” A....

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...n happening in her soul that she hardly understood it. But the instinct of self-defense awoke in her. “Who says I was with him last night?” “The whole...

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...t wonders. Bellegarde’s regu- lar attitude at last became that of laughing self-defense; to maintain his reputation as an all-knowing Frenchman, he do... ... my husband’s mistress,” she said, softly. This was the only concession to self-defense that she con- descended to make. “I doubt that,” said Newman. ...

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...ool enough to never whoop the ante I’d get the credit for lying anyway! In self-defense I got to toot my own horn, like a lawyer defending a client—hi... ...be ashamed if you can’t take her part? Well, can you? ‘We teach boxing and self-defense by mail. Many pupils have written saying that after a few less...

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...ich he had just taken part. He had laughed and talked and braved it out in self-defense; but when he reflected that he was really meddling with the si... ...eak. You will have to take to violence, to contortions, to romanticism, in self-defense. This sort of thing is like a man trying to lift himself up by...

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... could, with less of mortification to himself, and odium to her, reveal in self-defense those eccentricities which had led to his retirement from the ...

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... the assault upon and reduction of Fort Sumter was in no sense a matter of self-defense on the part of the assailants. They well knew that the garriso...

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...y their shields, but not him that lost his sword or spear; intimating that self-defense is more a man’s business than offense. This is especially true... ...so was necessitated to set himself against all Themistocles did, partly in self-defense, and partly to im- pede his power from still increasing by the...

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...uoyancy. His hypocrisy. He’s a spiritual bully. He makes me rude to him in self-defense. Oh yes, he is glad to be here. He does like us. He’s so good ...

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...and the thinly scattered inhabitants are too much absorbed in the cares of self-defense even to attempt any amelioration of their condi- tion. Such, h...

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...re s, The cause of this your fear. Yet am I then A villain born because in self-defense, Striken, I struck the striker back again? E en had I known, n...

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...ica- tion. The great mass of people in any community must and will act for self-defense. It needs no fine-spun theories to justify it. Hatred should h... ...y whose welfare is our concern. While punishment cannot be defended, still self-defense is inherent in both individuals and society and, without ar- g...

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...shadows?” “Oh, I had no idea of blaming her for it,” Anna’s friend said in self-defense. “If no one follows us about like a shadow, that’s no proof th...

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... meetings.” “What a pity!” commented Sergey Ivanovitch, frowning. Levin in self-defense began to describe what took place in the meetings in his distr...

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... to diminish the harm that can be inflicted upon those who are not wary in self-defense. When we consider the evils in the lives we know of, we find t...

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... instructed the CIA to cap- ture Bin Ladin and to use lethal force only in self-defense.W ork now began on a new memorandum that would give the tribal... ...erson who posed an imminent threat to the United States would be an act of self-defense, not an assassination. On Christmas Eve 1998, Berger sent a fi... ...in or one of his deputies with the Predator. Such strikes would be acts of self-defense that would not violate the ban on assassinations in Executive ... ...ed National Security Council meeting, the President said it was a time for self-defense.The United States would punish not just the per- petrators of ... ...his MON authorized kill authority , although lethal force could be used in self-defense. See NSC memo, McCarthy to CIA, Dec. 1999. 17. CIA cable,“DCI ...

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... and wishes, to choose a line of studies and of life for myself, by way of self-defense. The obstinacy of my father, who, with- out knowing it, oppose...