Several times he even said Brazil was merely defending its own interests.

They have said they were merely defending themselves and did the least damage possible to the man.

Legal Services lawyers thus do not merely defend, for instance, individual installment debtors.

My man was merely defending himself from their unprovoked attack.

If faculty merely defended their own turf, they could have a significant impact.

He suspects that many of those who invoke the Enlightenment are merely defending a conservative order.

He was merely defending "the basic American principle of separation of church and state."

Strawberry said, he had been grabbed from behind and was merely defending himself.

You didn't instigate the attack, you merely defended yourself and us.

But Maniakes remained convinced he could not win by merely defending.