I was looking for a safe place to defend myself, or perhaps for a way out.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Northern Europeans skied to hunt for food, then later to defend their countries.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Patrick Henry is most famous for a speech he gave in seventeen seventy-five to support his proposal to raise forces to defend the colony of Virginia against the British.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Biden said the new missile plan would be enough to defend Poland and he said U.S.support for Poland remains solid.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

After all it's very easy to defend the rights for people to speak who you agree with.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

For instance,he does not think women should defend their country and that men should protect their homeland.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

That is not our problem. They do not play, they did not defend, and they did not stop the chances for us to score,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

(...) Yigal Palmor. "This diktat is phrased in very extreme terms that try to impose rules that will make it impossible for any country to defend themselves against terror,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

"And the message we need to send in dealing with terrorists is our tax dollars, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them and not lawyers to defend them."

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

Republicans also asserted that the nuclear revelation supports their position that President Obama acted unwisely in altering plans for a European missile shield to defend against future missile launches by Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Political experts say the stakes in the health care debate are huge,not only for President Obama, but also for congressional Democrats who will defend their House and Senate seats in next year's midterm congressional elections.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

The general also called for NATO nations to strengthen their ability to defend the alliance's home territory, in order to ease concerns among some new members in Eastern Europe in the wake of Russia's invasion of Georgia last year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"We don't understand how come a mediator who was supposed to defend the cause of democracy will help us to embrace something we've been fighting for nine months, thinking that we were willing or keen to accept a token of gratitude from the general,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Besides urging the Obama administration to oppose any further consideration of the Goldstone report in multi-lateral forums, or measures stemming from it, the resolution also reaffirms support for Israel's security and right to self-defense, and its right to defend its citizens from violent militant groups and their state sponsors.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04