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That would be a difficult point if one day Australia has to defend that in the WTO. – Lourenco Goncalves	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Unfortunately, they do not have enough soldiers to defend the whole country. – Cesar Miguel Penaloza Santana	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
When you're attacked ... you have every right to defend yourself, there's no duty to retreat, there's no duty to hide or cower. You have the right to leave. – Matthew Fletcher	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is very important to accept the hand outstretched by those like us who are pro-European, those who defend the European project. – Pablo Iglesias	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
And you know, it's certainly true that, were any of us to provide weapons to Ukraine, Russia could match that and then double that and triple that and quadruple that, but it's also important to have in mind that the Ukrainians should be able to defend themselves and we provided significant security assistance, defensive, non-lethal security assistance to Ukraine to do just that. – State Antony Blinken	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
But it's also important to have in mind that the Ukrainians should be able to defend themselves and we provided significant security assistance, defensive, non-lethal security assistance to Ukraine to do just that. – State Antony Blinken	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We don't need anyone to defend our rights, this is just a foreign project to create a bad image for the burqa and Afghanistan. They're trying to make those of us who cover our faces feel bad. – Medina Ali	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We call on the DPRK to immediately cease all threats, reduce tensions and take the necessary steps towards denuclearization needed to resume credible negotiations, we will not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state and we will do what is necessary to defend ourselves and our allies. – Robert Wood	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The goal for this program is to get them to ... defend their communities, protect their own neighbors and then go on the offense against ISIL, nothing has changed about the policy that there is not going to be a U.S. military solution to Assad. – John Kirby	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It’s designed to help local sectarian forces in local communities facing threats of terrorism, insurgency or oppressive regimes to be able to defend themselves. – Matthew VanDyke	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The debate is whether or not there is some weapons that could be given them to give them greater ability to defend themselves in order to prevent the creeping land grabbing that's been taking place, or at least raise the cost, that's a very legitimate discussion. – State John Kerry	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't want to raise hope that might turn out to be dashed, i want to ensure that as far as is humanly possible, I am speaking out for Australians and for Australian values, but I also have to respect and defend Australia's friendships. – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
At that time, they were being sent into mud huts to investigate Taliban murders, decapitations, due to Afghan government bureaucracy, they had not yet been issued any weapons. Here they were, deep in enemy territory, and they had nothing but their own bodies' capabilities to defend themselves. – Tony Schiena	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We're quite confident of our naval forces' ability to defend themselves, it seems they've attempted to destroy the equivalent of a Hollywood movie set. – Kevin Stephens	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Comcast has engaged in good faith negotiations with this programmer for many years. It is disappointing that they have decided to file a frivolous lawsuit. We will defend vigorously against the scurrilous allegations in this complaint and fully expect that the court will dismiss them. – National Action Network	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
As I fighter, I say that as their will to displace us increases, so does ours to defend ourselves and to attack them. – Naji Dawoud	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I fully expected, sadly in some ways, that in my time as the commander of United States Cyber Command the Department of Defense would be tasked with attempting to defend the nation against those kind of attacks, i didn't realize that it would be against a motion picture company, to be honest. – Kim Jong-un Rogers	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We have to defend ourselves, russia is constantly supplying tanks, surface-to-air missiles and the rest of the stuff. And again everyone knows this. We still use outdated Soviet-style equipment. – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Russian propaganda financed directly from the Russian state budget, and there is this question: how can Europe defend itself? – Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I think of them all the time. I don't eat. I don't drink. I cannot sleep, i don't know whether they are alive or not. They are very small and will not know what to do or defend themselves. I am dying inside. – Whenever Emmanuel Ali Talka	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The Texas Constitution clearly defines marriage as between one man and one woman, as Texas voters approved by an overwhelming majority, the law of Texas has not changed, and will not change due to the whims of any individual judge or county clerk operating on their own capacity anywhere in Texas. Activist judges don't change Texas law, and we will continue to aggressively defend the laws of our state and will ensure that any licenses issued contrary to law are invalid. – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We will not fold before this type of terrorism, we defend freedom and want to preserve it. – Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There's only one way to defend America from these cyber threats and that is through government and industry working together, sharing appropriate information as true partners. – President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In my view those seeking to lead the nation should protect and defend and run, yes, run on what we’ve done, own what we have done, stand for what we have done, acknowledge what we have done and be judged on what (we have) done if we have any chance of a resurgence in 2016. – Vice President Joe Biden	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

That would be a difficult point if one day Australia has to defend that in the WTO.

– Lourenco Goncalves

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Unfortunately, they do not have enough soldiers to defend the whole country.

– Cesar Miguel Penaloza Santana

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When you're attacked ... you have every right to defend yourself, there's no duty to retreat, there's no duty to hide or cower. You have the right to leave.

– Matthew Fletcher

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is very important to accept the hand outstretched by those like us who are pro-European, those who defend the European project.

– Pablo Iglesias

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

And you know, it's certainly true that, were any of us to provide weapons to Ukraine, Russia could match that and then double that and triple that and quadruple that, but it's also important to have in mind that the Ukrainians should be able to defend themselves and we provided significant security assistance, defensive, non-lethal security assistance to Ukraine to do just that.

– State Antony Blinken

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

But it's also important to have in mind that the Ukrainians should be able to defend themselves and we provided significant security assistance, defensive, non-lethal security assistance to Ukraine to do just that.

– State Antony Blinken

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We don't need anyone to defend our rights, this is just a foreign project to create a bad image for the burqa and Afghanistan. They're trying to make those of us who cover our faces feel bad.

– Medina Ali

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We call on the DPRK to immediately cease all threats, reduce tensions and take the necessary steps towards denuclearization needed to resume credible negotiations, we will not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state and we will do what is necessary to defend ourselves and our allies.

– Robert Wood

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The goal for this program is to get them to ... defend their communities, protect their own neighbors and then go on the offense against ISIL, nothing has changed about the policy that there is not going to be a U.S. military solution to Assad.

– John Kirby

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It’s designed to help local sectarian forces in local communities facing threats of terrorism, insurgency or oppressive regimes to be able to defend themselves.

– Matthew VanDyke

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The debate is whether or not there is some weapons that could be given them to give them greater ability to defend themselves in order to prevent the creeping land grabbing that's been taking place, or at least raise the cost, that's a very legitimate discussion.

– State John Kerry

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I don't want to raise hope that might turn out to be dashed, i want to ensure that as far as is humanly possible, I am speaking out for Australians and for Australian values, but I also have to respect and defend Australia's friendships.

– Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

At that time, they were being sent into mud huts to investigate Taliban murders, decapitations, due to Afghan government bureaucracy, they had not yet been issued any weapons. Here they were, deep in enemy territory, and they had nothing but their own bodies' capabilities to defend themselves.

– Tony Schiena

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We're quite confident of our naval forces' ability to defend themselves, it seems they've attempted to destroy the equivalent of a Hollywood movie set.

– Kevin Stephens

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Comcast has engaged in good faith negotiations with this programmer for many years. It is disappointing that they have decided to file a frivolous lawsuit. We will defend vigorously against the scurrilous allegations in this complaint and fully expect that the court will dismiss them.

– National Action Network

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

As I fighter, I say that as their will to displace us increases, so does ours to defend ourselves and to attack them.

– Naji Dawoud

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I fully expected, sadly in some ways, that in my time as the commander of United States Cyber Command the Department of Defense would be tasked with attempting to defend the nation against those kind of attacks, i didn't realize that it would be against a motion picture company, to be honest.

– Kim Jong-un Rogers

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We have to defend ourselves, russia is constantly supplying tanks, surface-to-air missiles and the rest of the stuff. And again everyone knows this. We still use outdated Soviet-style equipment.

– Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Russian propaganda financed directly from the Russian state budget, and there is this question: how can Europe defend itself?

– Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I think of them all the time. I don't eat. I don't drink. I cannot sleep, i don't know whether they are alive or not. They are very small and will not know what to do or defend themselves. I am dying inside.

– Whenever Emmanuel Ali Talka

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The Texas Constitution clearly defines marriage as between one man and one woman, as Texas voters approved by an overwhelming majority, the law of Texas has not changed, and will not change due to the whims of any individual judge or county clerk operating on their own capacity anywhere in Texas. Activist judges don't change Texas law, and we will continue to aggressively defend the laws of our state and will ensure that any licenses issued contrary to law are invalid.

– Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We will not fold before this type of terrorism, we defend freedom and want to preserve it.

– Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There's only one way to defend America from these cyber threats and that is through government and industry working together, sharing appropriate information as true partners.

– President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In my view those seeking to lead the nation should protect and defend and run, yes, run on what we’ve done, own what we have done, stand for what we have done, acknowledge what we have done and be judged on what (we have) done if we have any chance of a resurgence in 2016.

– Vice President Joe Biden

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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