"We will take physical actions aimed at expanding and strengthening our self-defensive military forces, including nuclear deterrence, " it said.

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Even on those two highly favorable (and not very realistic) assumptions, the judges rated the majority of the self-defensive gun uses as falling into one of the two illegal categories.

CNN: Guns endanger more than they protect

Based upon this record, a President Kerry's idea of a "smarter war" would be one in which, by his own admission, the "legitimacy" of America's self-defensive actions would be determined by a "global test" - the decisive votes evidently to be cast by countries suborned by commercial ties, strategic relations or corrupt connections with our enemies.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The choice

She writes of the three times that Jane was removed from the stability of her home at three months to a wet-nurse in Steventon village, at seven to a horrible boarding school, at 25 to a nomadic, spa-haunting existence and she argues that these upheavals helped to create the defensive, self-protective spikiness of which her contemporaries sometimes complained.

ECONOMIST: Literary lives

But he cherished his privacy and disdained defensive self-publicity.

CNN: Brought up to be a good man

Her eyes glistening with gleeful malice, the ever-smiling Matsuura practically licks her lips with excitement as Isobel and Tony gratuitously and relentlessly insult, badger and manipulate their hapless colleague, Thomas, into defensive and self-destructive rages.

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Kouffman Sherman adds that the arm cross is a self-protecting behavior that reveals a defensive side to your personality.

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Despite their defensive efforts at self-congratulatory 'spin-control, ' this episode is but the latest example of the diminution of U.S. power and influence in foreign affairs during the Bush Administration's tenure.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Mr Delors depended not only on a close Franco-German alliance, but also on the self-confidence of these countries, which are both now in a defensive funk.

ECONOMIST: The beleaguered president of the European Commission

Graphic health warnings (GHW) threaten serious costs in terms of smoker concentration on fear (as opposed to danger avoidance), defensive processing, and reactance, as well as feelings of low self-esteem and self-efficacy.

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