Example sentences of "protect its [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major focus at all times within the Review is upon the completion of the historical map of English literature , thereby conserving and protecting its professional plenitude . |
| 2 | At first sight , this seems to be an attractive move : holding hearings behind closed doors has led to accusations that the Institute is protecting its own at the expense of the public interest . |
| 3 | She is always a gaijin ( a foreigner ) in a world that jealously protects its insular identity , but she is a gaijin who has penetrated Japan more deeply than most . |
| 4 | There are 30 such double bonds in the fullerene football but binding of a bis diethylphosphineplatinum group ( because of their steric bulk ) to one of these protects its four nearest neighbours from further attack . |
| 5 | ‘ It protects its own , can not bring itself to admit mistakes , so that many of its practitioners seem more concerned with process than justice . |
| 6 | ‘ I agree therefore with all your Lordships that the practice of exacting an undertaking in damages from the Crown as a condition of the grant of an interlocutory injunction in this type of law enforcement action ought not to be applied as a matter of course , as it should be in actions between subject and subject , in relator actions , and in actions by the Crown to enforce or to protect its proprietary or contractual rights . |
| 7 | It will cut through Neblina National Park , comprising 2 million hectares of rainforest , was designated a park in 1979 under Brazilian law , to protect its rich and diverse habitat . |
| 8 | The Uchikawa wetland , a seven-hectare tidal flat in Tokyo Bay , is becoming a test case of Japan 's willingness to protect its remaining natural habitats . |
| 9 | For the union , it was an opportunity not only to protect its long-held privileges — such as consultation over pit closures and the cutting of coal on five days a week only — but also to demonstrate the power of extra-parliamentary opposition to the ‘ elected dictatorship ’ in Whitehall . |
| 10 | Ukraine mobilized its border forces on March 17 to protect its internal security , and threatened " possible retaliatory measures " against Cossacks travelling through Ukraine . |
| 11 | The Laotian government has announced a ban on all logging and timber exploitation in an effort to protect its fast-diminishing forests . |
| 12 | Unless they adjust their money wage claims so as to protect its real value from erosion through price increases their real wages will no longer grow in line with the growth in productivity as before . |
| 13 | However co-operative the Pentagon may wish to be , the American industrial lobby in Congress usually intervenes at a late stage to protect its own narrow interests and the projects collapse . |
| 14 | It disarmed the people in order to protect its own enjoyment of blood sports . |
| 15 | These were resisted by Italy and the Netherlands which were happy with the low level of world prices , and by West Germany which preferred to protect its own coal industry through subsidies — a route which , under the Treaty of Paris , the High Authority was forbidden to consider . |
| 16 | Although the EC has signed association agreements with these countries , it is prevented by the political need to protect its own industries from allowing imports of these commodities on the scale that would be possible . |
| 17 | Finally , to protect its own security interest in the collateral and its proceeds , the bank will need to acquire the equivalent of possession of the original bill . |
| 18 | On the same day South Africa sent in troops to restore order and to protect its own interests . |
| 19 | The unit 's financial difficulties were absorbing a great deal of the district team 's time and energy , and the promising consortia development of the previous year had foundered as each district in the consortia sought to protect its own providers . |
| 20 | To protect its younger members the TUC had to sacrifice the economic freedom of working pensioners , while through Beveridge 's rationalizing , the state retained a flexible reserve army of labour in the younger elderly . |
| 21 | Despite its apparent mutability , E. coli does have the power to protect its genetic integrity . |
| 22 | Right , because the body is acting in order to protect its vital organs and it 's drawing the blood vessels near the skin , shut down , you 're not needed there , you 're needed here , in the core of the body , because your blood is what warms your skin up , it 's taken away from the skin , then the skin feels cold and clammy , yeah , clammy because of course if there 's no heat , we sweat all the time and especially if somebody 's had an accident or is seriously ill they will be sweating , yes , then there 's nothing to dry the sweat off okay , what happens when we sweat excessively in the summer time ? |
| 23 | The League is anxious to protect its lucrative link-up with the pools ' companies and the growing number of teams moving from the normal Saturday date has seen the day 's fixture list shrunk . |
| 24 | The statement strongly denounced recent " aggressive threats , campaigns and measures " against Iraq , and affirmed Iraq 's right to take all the appropriate measures to protect its national security . |
| 25 | I accept that the law has from the first appearance of corporations , in the absence of any relevant statutory direction , considered the question of a corporation 's right to sue for defamation by reference to the nature of the corporation itself and the need for the corporation to protect its lawful activities and property . |
| 26 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 27 | But in doing the balancing act it is necessary also to consider whether an injustice will be perpetrated if a local authority does not have the right to protect its governing reputation by an action for libel , and whether such an action , if available to a local authority , would be proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued . |
| 28 | It also reinforced the District 's resolve to protect its constitutional autonomy within any approved scheme . |
| 29 | There are remains of four levels of wall , the lowest of which would have had wooden gates to protect its main entrance . |
| 30 | Plans are afoot to divide it equitably between farmers , who want its waters for irrigation , and conservationists , who seek to protect its wading birds . |