The man later told police that he was acting in self-defence.

事后那人告诉警察，他当时是出于自卫。

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Not all of them were acting out of self-interest.

他们当中，并非所有人的行动都是出于利己的目的。

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As the world's food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many.

随着世界食品安全的崩溃，个别国家为自身利益行事，实际上是在加剧许多国家的困境。

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Addressing the General Assembly, Israel's Ambassador Gabriela Shalev repeated her government's position that Israel was acting in self-defense.

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Our naval servicemen were acting in self-defense."

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He dismissed as "biased and unjust" a U.N.Human Rights Council report that accused Israel of war crimes during its December Gaza offensive, saying his country was acting in self-defense against militant rocket fire.

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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.

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Now they view the U.S. as acting in self-interest rather than according to any moral code.

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Blackwater once was able to explain away shootings of Iraqi civilians, saying they were acting in self defense.

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