In the history of European clock technology, the monk is an early and very rare example of a self-acting automaton, one whose mechanism is wholly contained and hidden within its body.
Now they view the U.S. as acting in self-interest rather than according to any moral code.
Blackwater once was able to explain away shootings of Iraqi civilians, saying they were acting in self defense.
Rahim had claimed he was acting in self-defence in connection with the murder, which was rejected by the jury.
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But the armed police officers claimed they were acting in self-defence after a colleague had been injured by fans.
He said he was acting in self-defence after the victim picked up a piece of wood to attack him.
When interviewed, he claimed Mr Brown had the knife and had attacked him, and he had been acting in self defence.
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On Thursday, prosecutors told Liverpool Crown Court they were dropping the charges because they could not prove he had not been acting in self-defence.
Hadden claimed, in evidence, that he was acting in self-defence, saying Mr O'Brien was swinging the bat wildly at him and he had to protect himself.
After the dispute, the prosecution said the defendant tried to make the weapon disappear to create a "false impression of a law-abiding citizen acting in self-defence".
In June, acting as self-appointed guardians of the country's secularism, Turkey's generals in effect removed from office the coalition government led by the Islamist Welfare Party.
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In fact, those who deny it are acting in self-deception.
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The policeman who shot 23-year-old demonstrator Carlo Giuliani was investigated by prosecutors but the case was thrown out by a judge who ruled that he was acting in self defence.
No defence was heard in the trial, but the jury was told that Worvell claimed to be acting in self-defence after the two other men attempted to attack him with pieces of wood.
Defense attorney Tony Abbatangelo later told the judge he believed Drayton may have been acting in self-defense when he allegedly grabbed the butcher knife, a steak knife and a pizza cutter during the scuffle.
Law-abiding citizens acting in self-defense actually shoot and kill many more criminals each year than police do, and with a much lower percentage of incidents where an innocent person is mistakenly identified as a criminal.
Tomic's lawyer Carmen Dieguez said the reason that he used his head to attack Drouet was because the tennis player, 29, was holding the coach's arms at the time and that he was acting in self-defence.
The boy had claimed he was acting in self-defence after accusing Mr Nimalaraja of picking up a piece of wood to attack him during an altercation with youths at the junction of Gypsy Lane and Northfield Road.
If this is his goal then acting in his self interest is completely possible.
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The MPAA cannot be blamed for its "take-no-prisoners" approach, he said, as it is only acting in its self-interest.
The more interesting suggestion is that these men are acting out of self-interest.
It takes advantage of Switzerland's liberal laws on assisted suicide, which suggest that a person can only be prosecuted if they are acting out of self-interest.
Notice should be served, however, that if China -- which has threatened repeatedly to veto a U.N. resolution condemning Pyongyang -- blocks adoption of this resolution, the international community will not be prevented from acting in its self-defense.
The authors of the study, led by Dr Elena Compan Paveda, wrote that sharing daily meals is a unifying ritual that promotes adolescent mental health, and which could compensate for other factors that might serve to distance family members, acting as a self regulating mechanism for family life.
Acting accordingly as a self-defined enemy of the United States, Castro's alliance with Iran is unsurprising.
This, economists will tell you, leads to a "tragedy of the commons, " where individual owners, acting in their own self interests, destroy the resource.
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