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These signals start a chemical cascade that floods the body with several different stress hormones, causing physiological changes that prepare the body to defend itself.
It’s one of thousands of animal species, like frogs, jellyfish, salamanders, and snakes, that use toxic chemicals to defend themselves – in this case, by spewing poisonous liquid from glands in its abdomen.
These tiny animals defend themselves using hundreds of bitter-tasting compounds called alkaloids that they accumulate from consuming small arthropods like mites and ants.
I mean, my generation, I grew up not just thinking about the Internet, but I grew up in the Internet, and although I never expected to have the chance to defend it in such a direct and practical manner and to embody it in this unusual, almost avatar manner, I think there's something poetic about the fact that one of the sons of the Internet has actually become close to the Internet as a result of their political expression.
A few years later, I was invited to testify before Congress about my reporting, and I told lawmakers that, while everybody is talking about going green, some people are risking their lives to defend forests and to stop oil pipelines.
On the one hand, it means we have whole new front on which we need to defend ourselves, but on the other hand, it means we have a whole new way to attack, a whole new way to stop evil people from doing evil things.
But they worried, because he was social, that he was lonely, and they didn't want to put him in with another monkey, because they thought with just one arm, he wouldn't be able to defend himself or even play.
"As a veteran defending the flag, I personally would never defend your stupid ass!
But the most important thing here is that the very people who are supposed to defend us, the police, the military, are the ones that committed most of the crimes.
In order to be secure, you defend against "them."
Now, I read Peter Singer's book in 1980, when I had a full head of lush, brown hair, and indeed I was moved by it, because I had become a lawyer because I wanted to speak for the voiceless, defend the defenseless, and I'd never realized how voiceless and defenseless the trillions, billions of nonhuman animals are.
And by 1985, I realized that I was trying to accomplish something that was literally impossible, the reason being that all of my clients, all the animals whose interests I was trying to defend, were legal things; they were invisible.
Our moral integrity is our responsibility and we must be prepared to defend it even when it's not convenient.
And knowing how to run it, and knowing how to defend it, is basically a key to winning and losing most games.
Because when you're angry, people defend themselves.
So if these young girls know that there are laws that protect them, they will be able to stand up and defend themselves because they will know that there is a law that protects them.
When my mom's favorite lamp broke, I had to be there when she was trying to find out how and by who, because I had to defend myself, because if you're not, then the finger is pointed at you, and before you know it, you will be grounded.
and I think I can defend, what may seem like a surprising statement.
And when I tell them that the ferocious army-ant soldiers with their giant jaws, used to defend the colony, are all always female, they seem to not quite believe me.
And what it caused me to do was defend myself and my people and everything we believe in, because we're not stupid.
These are my people, and I'm the first to defend them, but the struggle is real.
There are soldiers that defend the colony, there are workers that collect food, clean the nest and care for the young, and there's a queen and a small group of male reproductives.
And the land area of the city was further restricted by the need for walls to defend against attacks.
They will then defend the colony and forage for food, while unfertilized eggs grow into males whose only job is to wait until they are ready to leave the nest and reproduce, beginning the cycle again.
To defend themselves from slave raids, neighboring kingdoms needed European firearms, which they also bought with slaves.
To defend against them, the Emperor expanded the small walls built by his predecessors, connecting some and fortifying others.
For nationalists, our modern societies are built on national grounds: we share a land, a history, a culture, and we defend each other.
The scout's job is not to attack or defend.
We want to defend them.
Do you yearn to defend your own beliefs?
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