In The Iron Lady, she captures how her subject's very fierceness is a necessary defence for the woman within.

The panel ruled: Weisgan has said he has no regrets about his actions because they were a 'necessary defence' of the Israeli people.

I shall rig up the necessary defences to give us both protection in the event of another psychic attack such as I underwent earlier.' '

It is not our role to judge, but nonetheless it is clear from the report that the steps taken by the Russian Federation go far beyond the general concept of necessary defence.

This politico-religious stance originated in the necessary defence of Western Europe from the Slavs, Saxons and Saracens, three pagan and savage races who continually sought to invade.

In the oscillating, violent, disingenuous and repressive political atmosphere of New Crobuzon, it was a necessary defence that except in a few cases, the writers for Runagate Rampant did not meet.

Inadequacies were glossed over and the focus of attention became the necessary defence of the revolutionary Soviet state, the guardian protector of peace, freedom and equality, currently threatened by a barbaric and expansionist fascist state.

August sincerely wished he would not do that - or at least not so loudly - but Reinecke's father had also done so for luck before starting any job, and in medieval times it had been a necessary defence against the devil.

Opponents of the bill - defining quota in terms of any hiring practice in which race was a determining factor - argued that this prohibition would be useless in preventing the development of informal de facto quotas as a necessary defence against law suits alleging discrimination.