He used the old trick of attacking in order to defend himself.

他采用了以攻为守的老招数。

《牛津词典》

One does not have to support illegal activity in order to defend intrusive reporting.

为侵扰性报道辩护的人，并不就是支持非法活动。

youdao

It has no land to defend; no police to enforce law and order; it does not have subjects, bound by a clear cluster of rights, obligations and cultural signals.

这里无疆可守、无警力强制执行法律和命令；甚至无一套清晰权责与文化特征约束的国民。

youdao

No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens."

VOA: special.2010.02.06

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

It is not necessary to invoke comparative advantage in order to defend such global free trade.

FORBES: In response to Ian Fletcher

In order to defend its market share better, Qualcomm is lowering chipset prices as well as broadening its portfolio of Snapdragons to include high performing entry-level chipsets.

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Further, the letter notes, in order to defend itself NR would be entitled to seek discovery, and in the process obtain access to e-mails and other records that Mann has, thus far, resisted disclosing in various freedom-of-information suits prompted by ClimateGate.

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