not rule out(она не исключает возможности = she does not rule out. She does not rule out marriage for her characters, but she does see the need to postpone the event. | US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she does not rule out a meeting with her Iranian counterpart at a conference on Iraq's security in ... Alexander Demidov)
be no defence against(Imitation is supposed to be the sincerest form of flattery (though one suspects that this is no defence against a claim of plagiarism). Alexander Demidov)
