Mr.Micheletti has made similar claims about foreign and domestic troublemakers to defend his decision to suspend some civil rights.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

And his basic rights were seen to be absolute, for nothing must interfere with the right of each individual to defend his life, liberty, and property.

人的基本权利被视作每个个体都绝对拥有的,任何事物都无法干涉的,自卫,自由,财产的权利

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

All right, so an elected government can conscript citizens to go out and defend the way of life, the community that makes the enjoyment of rights possible?

好的，所以说民选政府是可以征召公民,上战场为了他们的生活而战的，使得社会能够继续享有这些权利吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

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

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

The point is to defend the rights of people you don't agree with. That's the idea of a democracy, that all opinions are heard,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Tehran's U.N.Ambassador, Mohammed Khazaee, lectured the council after the vote,and said "no amount of pressure and mischief" will break Iran's "determination to pursue and defend its legal and inalienable rights."

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

In some countries, just talking about abortion divides people into two camps: those who defend a woman's right to end a pregnancy, versus those who believe the rights of an unborn child supersede the mother's.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Kaitlin Horst is the cemetery's spokeswoman. "As Americans, I think we have a sense of pride, pride in our country, pride in what we stand for and we also have a sense of pride in our military - what our military has done over the course of our nation's history, to defend the rights and freedoms that we hold dear."

VOA: standard.2010.05.26