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Now, we all think that Shelley obviously is the great romantic poet that he was; many of us tend to forget that he wrote some perfectly wonderful essays, too, and the most well-remembered essay is one called "A Defence of Poetry."
I am well aware that the actors are amateurs but it's of no defence since the director might be the least talented one ever directing in Sweden.
In a courtroom drama, the closing statement of the defence attorney is pretty much the crux of the film, and when the issue is as difficult to resolve as this one, the statement is really being delivered to the audience as well as the jury.
There is no doubt that the Kokoda Trail depicts a truly great event in Australian Military history the brave defence of Australia against the cruel barbaric Japanese Army.Howver this film fails to take into account the story of the "Fuzzy Wuzzy's" or the New Guinea natives that The Australians used to help them carry out there military operations.
The plot is very basic, but acceptable: A young US soldier, having studied Asian martial arts, puts this to good use in defence of the general's daughter and falls in love with her.
In her defence, each (prat?) fall was probably blocked, choreographed, and rehearsed.
What this film shows is how corrupt the American police system is and how easy it can really be to convict an innocent man and how a senile old fool who thinks one black man looks very much like another and sod it if he rots in jail because i said he was the man who murdered my wife.The star is the defence lawyer who is brilliant at not only his job in court but he also did he what the police should have done all along.
Robert Cummings, as defence plant worker Barry Kane, is framed for a bombing that kills his best friend.
THE SEVENTH SIGN has a great opening hook as the Israeli defence force come across a terrorist base .
the climax was the poorest performance ever given by the defence lawyer - so out of real life that even for a fictional story it was far too weird.
It wasn't so it hasn't got that defence.
Shane Danielsen (Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival), aided by the film's director and producer, gave a spirited defence of a movie than received an overall negative response from the audience.
It kept my attention to the end, however, without spoiling the film for anyone....... when she fixed the fridge by getting a book from the library, you knew how the film would end when she went back to library for a book on self defence against and assassin.
In death, then, because of the gallantry of an honorable chess master, Luzhin's defence (which he worked out in a late moment of lucidity) is allowed to be played.
This is not a matter of self defence, it's just common sense.
Despite the Industrial Revolution and the consequent leaps and bounds of technological progress childbirth and womens' health was very much a side issue in a patriarchal society.Colin's father has no interest in his son's upbringing despite - or,arguably,because of the fact that his wife,whom he clearly loved had died giving birth to the boy.He is an intelligent man and knows that such an attitude is not reasonable,but it is the status quo for a man of his position .That he loves and understands children is made clear by his attitude towards Mary and his defence of her against Mrs Medlock,but his gender and his own upbringing are not easy forces for him to overcome.
The main line of defence seems to be: lighten up, it's just entertainment / just a kid's movie / just a special effects flick.
In their defence, the actors are generally good.
will give points for the ending though.it is something i did not expect and would have been pretty decent except they dragged it out long.Harrison Ford was convincing in a dramatic role.Bonnie Bedelia was good as the wife,and Raul Julia was very good as Sabich's defence attorney.as
Nora cannot control herself and standing up gives a speech in defence of the working class in front of that rich and powerful jewish family.
What defence could you possibly muster, I ask of you?
The film also known in another name as Last line of defence 2 an apparant sequal to another film Gruner was in as the lead as a different character.
First, I'd like to mention this in defence of the movie.
But Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, the first three postcommunist countries to join NATO, can be useful members only if we implement important practical changes in our own defence systems.
All this will be costly, but less so than an isolated defence, an isolation doomed to fail.
Culture is too often cited as a defence against human rights by authoritarians who crush culture whenever it suits them.
As Iraq's new rulers debate what to do about the billions of dollars in foreign debts inherited from Saddam Hussein's regime, voices ranging from the charity Oxfam-International to US defence guru Richard Perle are calling for debt repudiation on the grounds that the debts Iraq now bears were contracted to sustain a corrupt, oppressive regime.
And that’s not all: the European Commission should be able to waive the 2%-of-GDP limit on the exemption for increases in defence expenditure up to the NATO target, depending on external security risks and economic needs in individual countries or the EU as a whole.
Many are in formerly powerful research centers now wasting away, some form entire populations in once closed research cities and one institute towns that were wholly dependent on a single defence institute or project.
However, a decision-making body consisting of delegates from Kosovo, Serbia, and the European Union would be given full authority over major foreign policy issues (for example, alliances and relations with international economic institutions), defence, borders (in case Kosovo wished to join with Albania), and the treatment of Kosovo’s Serbian minority.
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