If a per se violation is shown, defendants cannot offer any evidence to demonstrate the reasonableness or the alleged necessity of the challenged conduct.

Some defendants might offer both a technical defense and a political defense.

The defendants offered a rebate of A£7,752.

But the defendants can offer evidence to show that they reasonably believed what they were saying.

The suit also seeks to require the defendants to offer an apartment to anyone who was unlawfully denied one in the last three years.

A defendant in a political trial may offer a "legal defense" or a "political defense".

The defendants offered no defense and lost the case by default, city officials said.

Judge Ward, as he announced the sentence, said, "I am persuaded that this defendant has offered full and complete cooperation."

The defendants who manufactured similar valves and were effectively competitors of the plaintiff company offered work to the plaintiff's employees on Sundays.

To the blistering assertion that this was how it had happened, the defendant offered a simple answer.