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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... Innovative defenses (the invention of which is sometimes called creative lawyering) are relatively new and untried defenses for having committed a criminal ... 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 ...
... 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 current Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence is assigned executive agency for this program to the Defense Intelligence Agency ...
... National ballistic missile defense systems ... Increased defense cooperation with Israel ... defense relationships with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and other Persian Gulf nations ...
... As discussed below, targets have various takeover defenses available, and several types of defense have been called "poison pills" because they harm not only the bidder, but the target (or ... the most common type of takeover defense is a shareholder rights plan ... of directors, however, a shareholder rights plan can be a defense ...
... He set about raising local militias to aid in the defense of Montreal and Quebec City, which met with only limited success ... 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 ...
Famous quotes containing the word defense:
“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”
—Barry Goldwater (b. 1909)
“Of all my Russian books, The Defense contains and diffuses the greatest “warmth”Mwhich may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract chess is supposed to be.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“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)