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What I said was ill-thought-out, and I make no defence for it, but I will clarify that the term used is one that has widely and historically been used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for ‘guy’ or ‘person’ and was never intended to offend. – Nelson Piquet	Found on CNN 1 year ago
By exercising collective self-defence, Japan will directly participate in a war, i’m afraid that Japan’s spirit is approaching its most dangerous stage in the past 100 years. – Kenzaburo Oe	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Everybody knows that your missile defence systems are the best ... and that you can definitely help our people, save the lives of Ukrainians, of Ukrainian Jews. – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Such missile strike means that, for many Russians, our Kyiv is absolute foreign. They know nothing about our capital, about our history. They have orders to erase our history, our country and all of us. children, women and defence forces are losing their lives every hour. – State Emergency Service	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is an issue that had been raised by me directly some months ago and we continued to talk those issues through, including by defence ministers and others. – Prime Minister Scott Morrison.Australia	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
The military capabilities in EU member countries do exist, the key question for the future of the European security and defence police is how we finally use our military capabilities together. – Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
At the same time, theoretically, Trevor Reed can be exchanged for one of the convicted Russian citizens in the United States for further serving Trevor Reed sentence in America. However, this issue is already outside of Reed's defence. – Victoria Buklova	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The dynamic is the jihadists come in, they overpower the civil defence post and engage in collective punishment against the rest of the village -- it's a pattern we've seen everywhere this year. – Corinne Dufka	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If you look at this, it is synonymous with traumatic responses, such that they are anxious and anticipate that they will be harassed over a story. This may cause them to let go in defence of themselves. – Folajaiye Kareem	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We will announce the details once the defence ministry and local authorities have come up with a plan. – Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
I feel even more confident that I have a defence system in my body against COVID. – Hun Manet	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The French defence was determination, but not just that. The French defence was also the result of a lot of technical work about positioning around the ruck, we’re coming out of this game frustrated, we had the keys to the match, but we’re proud. – Fabien Galthie	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We will continue to invest in advanced capabilities to give the Australian Defence Force more options to deter aggression against Australia's interests. – Linda Reynolds	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Although there are differences in the legal systems of Hong Kong and the mainland, the principles followed by the Hong Kong and mainland criminal laws are not that great, both laws include principles such as presumption of innocence, the right for criminal suspects and defendants to have legal defence, and laws not being applied restrospectively. All these principles can be stipulated in this legislation. – Deng Zhonghua	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
In order to provide security for public places and to thwart attacks and threats from the Taliban and other terrorist groups, I am ordering Afghan security forces to switch from an active defence mode to an offensive one and to start their operations against the enemies. – President Ashraf Ghani	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Our defence organisations' focus is now on maintaining force readiness and helping our partners in the Pacific and Southeast Asia. – Defence Minister Linda Reynolds	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
States will advance towards NATO's target without raising their defence budgets, solely by the fact that their GDPs are shrinking. We will see a complete paradox, an unintended effect. – Carlo Masala	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
He was super clean, defence, offence, serving well. Didn't give me anything. He was everywhere. So it was tough for me, but excellent match by him. I was impressed. – Roger Federer	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In a putative self-defence situation, the violence must still be proportionate. Here we have three people delivering kicks and punches to a person lying down, the three should be convicted of assault according to my description of events. – Daniel Suneson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
He (Mayers) believes he was assaulted and has acted in self-defence. – Slobodan Jovicic	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Never since the end of the Second World War has Europe been so necessary. The construction of a Europe of defence, in connection with the Atlantic Alliance ... is a priority for France. It is the theme of this parade, acting together and strengthening our ability to act collectively is one of the challenges that the European Intervention Initiative, along with other key European projects, wants to address. – President Macron	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
There's a huge appetite in Europe for defence as a whole. – Thomas Breckenridge	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Good defence leads to great offence – Githu Muigai	added by anonymous 5 years ago
Anyone who wanders around the world attacking IDF (Israel Defence Forces) soldiers, will not enter a school. – Naftali Bennett	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

What I said was ill-thought-out, and I make no defence for it, but I will clarify that the term used is one that has widely and historically been used colloquially in Brazilian Portuguese as a synonym for ‘guy’ or ‘person’ and was never intended to offend.

– Nelson Piquet

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By exercising collective self-defence, Japan will directly participate in a war, i’m afraid that Japan’s spirit is approaching its most dangerous stage in the past 100 years.

– Kenzaburo Oe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Everybody knows that your missile defence systems are the best ... and that you can definitely help our people, save the lives of Ukrainians, of Ukrainian Jews.

– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Such missile strike means that, for many Russians, our Kyiv is absolute foreign. They know nothing about our capital, about our history. They have orders to erase our history, our country and all of us. children, women and defence forces are losing their lives every hour.

– State Emergency Service

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is an issue that had been raised by me directly some months ago and we continued to talk those issues through, including by defence ministers and others.

– Prime Minister Scott Morrison.Australia

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The military capabilities in EU member countries do exist, the key question for the future of the European security and defence police is how we finally use our military capabilities together.

– Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

At the same time, theoretically, Trevor Reed can be exchanged for one of the convicted Russian citizens in the United States for further serving Trevor Reed sentence in America. However, this issue is already outside of Reed's defence.

– Victoria Buklova

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The dynamic is the jihadists come in, they overpower the civil defence post and engage in collective punishment against the rest of the village -- it's a pattern we've seen everywhere this year.

– Corinne Dufka

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you look at this, it is synonymous with traumatic responses, such that they are anxious and anticipate that they will be harassed over a story. This may cause them to let go in defence of themselves.

– Folajaiye Kareem

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We will announce the details once the defence ministry and local authorities have come up with a plan.

– Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

I feel even more confident that I have a defence system in my body against COVID.

– Hun Manet

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The French defence was determination, but not just that. The French defence was also the result of a lot of technical work about positioning around the ruck, we’re coming out of this game frustrated, we had the keys to the match, but we’re proud.

– Fabien Galthie

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We will continue to invest in advanced capabilities to give the Australian Defence Force more options to deter aggression against Australia's interests.

– Linda Reynolds

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Although there are differences in the legal systems of Hong Kong and the mainland, the principles followed by the Hong Kong and mainland criminal laws are not that great, both laws include principles such as presumption of innocence, the right for criminal suspects and defendants to have legal defence, and laws not being applied restrospectively. All these principles can be stipulated in this legislation.

– Deng Zhonghua

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

In order to provide security for public places and to thwart attacks and threats from the Taliban and other terrorist groups, I am ordering Afghan security forces to switch from an active defence mode to an offensive one and to start their operations against the enemies.

– President Ashraf Ghani

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Our defence organisations' focus is now on maintaining force readiness and helping our partners in the Pacific and Southeast Asia.

– Defence Minister Linda Reynolds

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

States will advance towards NATO's target without raising their defence budgets, solely by the fact that their GDPs are shrinking. We will see a complete paradox, an unintended effect.

– Carlo Masala

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

He was super clean, defence, offence, serving well. Didn't give me anything. He was everywhere. So it was tough for me, but excellent match by him. I was impressed.

– Roger Federer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In a putative self-defence situation, the violence must still be proportionate. Here we have three people delivering kicks and punches to a person lying down, the three should be convicted of assault according to my description of events.

– Daniel Suneson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

He (Mayers) believes he was assaulted and has acted in self-defence.

– Slobodan Jovicic

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Never since the end of the Second World War has Europe been so necessary. The construction of a Europe of defence, in connection with the Atlantic Alliance ... is a priority for France. It is the theme of this parade, acting together and strengthening our ability to act collectively is one of the challenges that the European Intervention Initiative, along with other key European projects, wants to address.

– President Macron

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There's a huge appetite in Europe for defence as a whole.

– Thomas Breckenridge

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Good defence leads to great offence

– Githu Muigai

added by anonymous
5 years ago

Anyone who wanders around the world attacking IDF (Israel Defence Forces) soldiers, will not enter a school.

– Naftali Bennett

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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