Hamada's comments follow a meeting of Japan's Security Council Friday, at which senior officials voted to approve the use of missile defense technology to destroy any part of the North Korean rocket that looks like it will land on Japan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

And Milton's defense of controversy seems in a lot of ways continually to be slipping in to something like a defense of poetry, or certainly a defense of his own poetic practice.

弥尔顿对于论战的辩护似乎在某种程度上持续地,渐渐变为对诗歌的辩护，或是理所当然地变为对自己诗歌的尝试的辩护。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I would suggest something like national defense, education, communications and information act.

我建议颁布相关的国防,教育，传播及信息法案，因此政府要提供一种方法。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

NATO is an alliance of democracies. And many of its members have had a lot of trouble convincing their parliaments, and their people, to spend money on defense during what seems like a peaceful time in Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

His defense seems to run something like this.

他的辩护看似如下。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And just to give you some small defense of that approach, I always like to ask students, "Suppose we didn't have a single historical record, no newspaper, no diaries. You know nothing totally reliable for what happened in the latter part of the eighteenth century in America."

我可以给你们一个反驳的理由,我总是问学生们,"如果没有历史文献,报纸和日记,那么对于美国十八世纪后期的历史,你们将一无所知"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选