Synonyms for self-defence
self-de·fence

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1. self-defense, self-defence, self-protectionnoun

   the act of defending yourself

   Synonyms:
   self-defense, self-protection

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1. List of paraphrases for "self-defence":

   self-defense, self-defensive, autodefensas, vigilante, self-defending, defence, sdf

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1. Philip Aguer:

   On Wednesday it was the rebels attacking the SPLA in Nhialdiu and the SPLA repulsed them. There are casualties but we don't have the details up to now, definitely, the army command will implement the government policy and we will only fight in self-defence if the rebels attack our positions.

2. Daniel Suneson:

   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.

3. Slobodan Jovicic:

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

4. Kenzaburo Oe:

   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.

5. Alan Dupont:

   If you look at before this set of legislation and related changes, it was a pretty ludicrous situation where Japanese Self-Defence Forces could barely do anything worthy of the name of defense forces except in a major attack on Japan, i'd say they've moved from 25 percent to 50 percent. It's like a doubling of their flexibility and capacity to deploy forces overseas, but we're still 50 percent short of what the industry standard is.