Example sentences of "protect [pron] own " in BNC.
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| 1 | He described how the Japanese used a laser beam strategy within a poorly drafted law to penetrate the European market while protecting their own domestic market behind a dynastic organisational structure which only permitted import access when the dynasty deemed it politically expedient to do so . |
| 2 | This too failed , on the basis that in unlawful means conspiracy , as in conspiracy to injure , there must be an intent to injure the plaintiff , and conspiracy should not be extended ‘ beyond acts done in execution of an agreement entered into by two or more persons for the purpose not of protecting their own interests but of injuring the interests of the plaintiff . ’ |
| 3 | See dockers are only protected , when they say they go on strike , they 're only protecting their own jobs in my opinion . |
| 4 | They 're protecting their own jobs . |
| 5 | Significantly , 81 per cent gave protecting their own provider units a low ranking , a marked change from the previous year and in line with the case study findings . |
| 6 | ‘ Those representing developed countries were primarily interested in protecting their own industries and jobs and security at the polls , not in protecting the environment . |
| 7 | She wrote a highly perceptive appreciation of Burns 's character in the Dumfries Journal ( August 1796 ) and collaborated energetically with Burns 's biographer , James Currie — thereby also effectively protecting her own interests and reputation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is as if he is intent only on protecting his own interests . |
| 10 | Mr Patten , regarded as one of Mr Major 's ablest lieutenants , was unable to conceal his disappointment as the result was announced , indicating that the twin task of spearheading the Tory campaign and protecting his own marginal constituency had proved too much . |
| 11 | Yet it has also spawned some monstrous offspring which include such distortions as a dismissive attitude towards women , a view of work as punishment , a view of pain and hardship as revealing personal guilt , a view of the body and anything to do with it as inherently evil , a view of the earth as the property of homo sapiens who can choose what to do with it , a view of God as an insensitive , self-opinionated , unjust task-master concerned about protecting his own property and the slavish obedience of the human-beings he has created . |
| 12 | The emphasis should be on supporting and protecting your own jumper and not illegally interfering with the opposing jumper . |
| 13 | When it comes to sharing development and production with our European partners , we have the common aims of all middle powers : protecting our own national armament industries ; and preserving the greatest practicable measure of military independence . |
| 14 | ‘ It protects its own , can not bring itself to admit mistakes , so that many of its practitioners seem more concerned with process than justice . |
| 15 | ‘ My role is not to spare life but to protect my own . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It disarmed the people in order to protect its own enjoyment of blood sports . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On the same day South Africa sent in troops to restore order and to protect its own interests . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He is concerned the societies have acted fast to protect their own interests . |
| 24 | The delay in his transfer over his sports shop confirmed Chapman 's estimation of him , for he admired players who sought to protect their own interests : ‘ This is an indication to me that the player who makes this demand has intelligence . ’ |
| 25 | While the Home Unions are seemingly trying to protect their own interests , the whole issue could blow up in their faces if the Wallabies made a separate tour of South Africa immediately before the tour of Ireland and Wales . |
| 26 | Matsushita 's competitors were also affected for they had to make compensating decisions to protect their own market positions . |
| 27 | To protect their own interests these States openly condemned New Zealand 's stance , although they had no direct claims under the treaty . |
| 28 | Member States are generally in a good position to protect their own interests through the organisation . |
| 29 | It has been suggested further that corporate ambitions extend beyond influencing the detail of regulation , with Reagan for instance claiming that ‘ … corporations are not only much concerned to protect their own immediate legislative interests , but are reaching out in an attempt to create a business-oriented political and social framework within which all public decision-making would be constrained . |
| 30 | These will be eager to protect their own autonomy , but may also seek to convince ministers that their local initiatives should be enshrined in national policy . |