The arrest was arranged by Anthony Comstock, the self-appointed moral defender of the nation at the time.

Far more entertaining here, amongst the self-appointed 'defenders of the people', and I refuse to be intimidated by the virtual equivalent of a street gang.

The arrest was arranged by Anthony Comstock, the self-appointed moral defender of the nation at the time, and the event incited questions about censorship and government persecution.

Now he has returned as the self-appointed defender of a country he once shunned.

Earlier in the day, Goebbels, Berlin's Gauleiter and self-appointed defender, had held his usual weekly "war council."

The reference, clearly, is to self-appointed defenders of Sylvia Plath who never knew her or Hughes, perhaps never even read their work.

She was right to say that if the self-appointed defenders of "traditional" values are incensed, they should by all means watch something else.

Such an admission might provoke howls from the self-appointed defenders of the pinstripe realm.

In a sequence of events that Kosovo has seen played out many times, Dobrosin is just the latest to suffer from skirmishes between the Serbian police and self-appointed defenders.