defend oneself's Usage Examples:

sells weapons and military technology Self-defense, the use of force to defend oneself Haganah (Hebrew for "The Defence"), a paramilitary organization in British.

Kelly asks Toby to demonstrate how to defend oneself when being attacked by a girl, and begins physically harassing him;.

is teaching a class about self-defense, but all he teaches is how to defend oneself against an assailant "armed" with a piece of fresh fruit.

matters and concludes: "to all these joint circumstances, one can hardly defend oneself against the thought of future threatening dangers".

Not being able to use the courts to defend oneself against enemies could be socially crippling.

undergarment, must not be elastic), and Kirpan (an iron dagger large enough to defend oneself with).

"reasonable force" in order to make an arrest or prevent a crime or to defend oneself.

of the Martial arts, which it defines as "How can one successfully defend oneself against attack by a bigger, stronger, and more aggressive opponent?".

to argue that studies finding about equal rates of violence by women in relationships are misleading because they fail to place the violence in context; in other words, there is a difference between someone who uses violence to fight back or defend oneself and someone who initiates an unprovoked assault.

share a single objective: to physically defeat other persons and to defend oneself or others from physical threat.

Other civil liberties include the right to own property, the right to defend oneself, and the right to bodily integrity.

certain circumstances, to use force (up to and including deadly force) to defend oneself against an intruder, free from legal prosecution for the consequences.

non-aggression, its objective is not to cause maximum harm but simply to defend oneself.

Synonyms:

rationalise, apologise, fend for, reason, uphold, stand up, justify, stick up, rationalize, apologize, argue, support, excuse,

Antonyms:

yield, lend oneself, obey, make peace, please,