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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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criminal
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Keanu Reeves plays a criminal defense attorney who has an uncanny knack for picking sympathetic jurors.
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They have hired separate criminal defense attorneys.
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More particularly, he is an experienced criminal defense lawyer and knows how circumscribed our talks would necessarily have to be.
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That is a sentiment echoed by criminal defense lawyer William Habern of Riverside, who specializes in state and federal parole cases.
good
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Most of the time, this is the best defense .
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The military had placed the island city in the best possible defense posture, considering the inherent weakness of its geographic position.
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Talking about Buffalo-Pittsburgh, Parcells thinks that whichever team plays the best defense will survive.
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There is a price tag on the best defense .
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Insinuation was their best defense , their best offense.
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The best defense is a good offense, Jody figures.
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Its honor at stake, the Pac-10 could not have selected a better last defense .
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The one that plays better defense will win.
legal
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There were calls for legal defense funds and vigils for justice.
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Zimmermann spent thousands on his defense , and was forced to set up a legal defense fund to cover the expenses.
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Contract attorneys have pushed the deficit in the county's indigent legal defense offices to more than $ 1.8 million.
national
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The proposed test program is inadequate to ensure the necessary reliability before we begin to spend big money on national missile defense .
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It was not on a similar list last year, and Marine Corps officials say it is vital to national defense .
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Similarly in the international arena, an emasculated politics is incapable of sustaining an effective national defense .
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As with the national budget, defense takes a big chunk out of our software spending.
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He presented James Kitfield, a military reporter for the National Journal, with the prize for distinguished reporting on national defense .
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agency
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The Reform commission soon became the most militant of all the defense agencies .
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The defense agencies had learned to recruit wealthy federation donors to their own boards.
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Donations poured into the Big Three defense agencies , and their budgets and staffs soared.
attorney
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Even the defense attorneys who went up against him said as much.
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They have hired separate criminal defense attorneys .
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Keanu Reeves plays a criminal defense attorney who has an uncanny knack for picking sympathetic jurors.
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It takes between 10 and 15 years to exhaust all appeals, and lack of defense attorneys can mean a two-year delay.
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Morgan is a well-known defense attorney .
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Looking relaxed and rested, Simpson answered friendly questions from his defense attorney for nearly three hours.
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The defense attorney , in the midst of arguing his motion, suddenly began gagging an coughing.
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Goldston told jailers he was doing so because he wanted cigarettes, magazines and Los Angeles defense attorney Johnnie Cochran.
budget
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The annual defense budget stands at about $ 7 billion-40 times smaller than U.S. expenditures.
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After two years in office they had increased the defense budget from $ 40 to $ 46 billion.
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Such operations have expanded substantially in recent years but they still add less than 2 percent to our defense budget .
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A local congressman said the canceled deployment illustrated that too much money has been cut from the defense budget .
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President Clinton signed the bill into law as part of a defense budget measure.
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In the Far East, defense budgets are growing very rapidly.
company
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To produce 438 more, Augustine and other defense companies want $ 64. 4 billion.
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He puts it this way: Every defense company figures a certain amount of overhead into every contract.
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So what did Ziniewicz, 53, who works for a local defense company , do last month?
contractor
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In addition to the Navy and civilian employees, dozens of defense contractors have relocated or beefed up local offices.
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Gary was an electrical engineer for a defense contractor in the Washington area.
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One benefit, he said, is the closer working relationship between defense contractors and the Navy.
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It cost government and defense contractors $ 5. 6 billion in 1995 to protect classified national security information.
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Many members of Congress of both parties serve districts harboring big defense contractors that would be affected.
industry
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Anders says his bold actions awakened the rest of the defense industry .
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His latest budget that he has submitted for the California defense industry is a disaster.
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Perry has a long and great history with the defense industry .
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Twenty-two months later, all of its available power was being used and the defense industries were screaming for more.
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Cohen also raised questions about the benefits of defense industry mergers, including government-financed merger expenses.
lawyer
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Jeffery J.. Carlson, a Santa Monica defense lawyer offered a similar critique.
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Ruth Halpern, who had just been brainstorming about the idea with a death-penalty defense lawyer , was intrigued.
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Instead of freely submitting to police interviews, they hired a pair of Denver defense lawyers , one for each of them.
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Fujisaki will probably rule next week on whether defense lawyers can draw a more sinister inference from the delay during closing arguments.
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The prosecutors and defense lawyers regarded Kovitsky as a holy terror.
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This was how he negotiated with defense lawyers .
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A good defense lawyer has an intricate network.
minister
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Peres was named prime minister , his deputy Yitzhak Rabin became defense minister, and Shamir became foreign minister.
ministry
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Labor will control the foreign and defense ministries , along with several other cabinet posts.
missile
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The principal goal of administration policy has been to persuade others to endorse missile defense .
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Republicans will point to the failure as proof of the administration's lukewarm commitment to missile defense during the past seven years.
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Opponents of missile defense will cite the miss as proof that politics has been driving the development schedule.
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The proposed test program is inadequate to ensure the necessary reliability before we begin to spend big money on national missile defense .
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Dole already has used legislative issues such as gun control and strategic missile defense to score political points.
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When that happens, it will be too late to start building a missile defense .
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It will require more, but missile defense will be a cornerstone.
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Now, the Pentagon may cast Aegis ships as part of a ballistic missile defense network favored by Cohen.
official
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This means future defense procurement contracts would cost the government less money, defense officials say.
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The secret program was largely dismantled in the early 1990s, defense officials say.
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But a defensive capacity was retained to test the effectiveness of protective gear used by the armed forces, defense officials say.
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It is too early to say exactly how many job cuts each agency would absorb, defense officials said.
secretary
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Absent was the fumbling that has accompanied previous Clinton appointments, from attorney-general to defense secretary and surgeon-general.
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John Tower, R-Texas, as defense secretary .
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Cohen made his comments during his first news conference since becoming defense secretary .
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Henry H.. Shelton expressed concern last week to Rumsfeld about the defense secretary s review of the military.
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The incoming defense secretary , with Army Gen.
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He expected more loyalty, he told his defense secretary heatedly.
system
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Defense ministers from the group also issued a joint statement against U.S. plans to create a missile defense system .
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A science-fiction thriller about a planet that is mired in civil war and whose computerized defense system runs amok, threatening everyone.
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Boeing's proposals illustrate the difficulty in coming up with a missile defense system any time soon.
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Your immune sys-tem can be likened to a Patriot missile defense system , detecting incoming dangers and destroying them.
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From what we know, the proposed defense system can defeat only the dumbest decoys.
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Dole repeated his support for the development of a national anti-missile defense system by 2003.
team
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Neither the prosecution nor the defense team could be reached for comment late Friday regarding the development.
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Those feelings were reinforced by news reports saying McVeigh confessed to the bombing during interviews with his defense team .
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A source close to the defense team said the no contest plea was a key element in plea bargain negotiations.
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The defense team was delighted by the development.
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Denvir said neither the defense team nor the defense strategy had not yet been determined.
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And the defense team , slogging through hour after hour of technical material, grew increasingly annoyed.
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He smiled often and passed notes to members of the defense team .
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But it could have strategic value for a defense team facing the biggest case filed against an Aberdeen soldier to date.
■ VERB
play
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In those days, even quarterbacks played defense .
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After two days of intensive defensive-oriented workouts, the Celtics came out Wednesday night and again played appalling defense .
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Dallas Stymies Kings, 5-1 Hockey: Stars play a miserly defense and score four times on power play and once short-handed.
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Blue said the team is exciting to watch, in part, because they play man-to-man defense .
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He picked up 73 yards on 14 rushes before injuring a knee while playing defense in the third quarter.
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Tampa Bay plays stout defense ... the Bucs thirsted for a victory.
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For every breakaway, or thrown pass, there is some one willing to hustle down court to play defense .
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So Vince Carter dug down and played defense to block Duncan's last shot.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Martin decided to speak in his own defense .
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Taylor plays defense for the New York Giants.
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the Department of Defense
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There are plans to increase defense spending by 6%.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each clinic defense required extensive planning.
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Gary was an electrical engineer for a defense contractor in the Washington area.
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Jeffery J.. Carlson, a Santa Monica defense lawyer offered a similar critique.
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The defense contends the fight was an isolated case.
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The defense for this kind of programing proceeds along the following lines.
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The Saints had 213 total yards against a Raider defense ranked last in rushing, passing and overall defense.
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The tragedy is that you have to twist the knife in your own gray matter to make this defense work.
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They have hired separate criminal defense attorneys.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each clinic defense required extensive planning.
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Gary was an electrical engineer for a defense contractor in the Washington area.
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Jeffery J.. Carlson, a Santa Monica defense lawyer offered a similar critique.
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The defense contends the fight was an isolated case.
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The defense for this kind of programing proceeds along the following lines.
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The Saints had 213 total yards against a Raider defense ranked last in rushing, passing and overall defense.
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The tragedy is that you have to twist the knife in your own gray matter to make this defense work.
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They have hired separate criminal defense attorneys.