Defense (AmE) or defence (BrE, CanE and AuE) (see American and British English spelling differences for -ce/-se) may refer to:
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... As discussed below, targets have various takeover defenses available, and several types of defense have been called "poison pills" because they harm not only ... Currently, the most common type of takeover defense is a shareholder rights plan ... board of directors, however, a shareholder rights plan can be a defense ...
... raising local militias to aid in the defense of Montreal and Quebec City, which met with only limited success ... of vessels for use on Lake Champlain, and recruited about one hundred Mohawk to assist in its defense ... He himself oversaw the defense of Montreal, leading only 150 regulars, since he relied on Fort St ...
... The former Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Dr ... Stephen Cambone encouraged in part by the Defense Science Board reports on Strategic Communication and Transition to and From Hostilities, created the Defense Open Source Program (DOSP) ... The current Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence is assigned executive agency for this program to the Defense Intelligence Agency ...
... Innovative defenses (the invention of which is sometimes called creative lawyering) are relatively new and untried defenses for having committed a criminal act ... Such defenses include the abuse defense Battered woman defence premenstrual stress syndrome the biological defense (the "Twinkie Defense") "Black rage" urban survival syndrome ... Parodies of innovative defenses are sometimes seen in entertainment, for example the Chewbacca Defense ...
... National ballistic missile defense systems ... Increased defense cooperation with Israel ... defense relationships with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and other Persian Gulf nations ...
Famous quotes containing the word defense:
“Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, every where.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people’s identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)