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1991 examples of Protection in a sentence

As a result, China’s resources are increasingly being redeployed toward a more balanced portfolio that still includes growth, but adds environmental protection, social welfare, security, and innovation in a wide range of fields that overlap only partly with productivity and income growth.
The Magna Charta is the world’s most visible statement of principles for the promotion and protection of university autonomy.
And Chinese companies’ record in Africa, where they have engaged in an all-out race to control natural resources, with little regard for the niceties of transparency and modern accounting, let alone environmental protection, human rights, and democratic freedoms, is not exactly encouraging.
We find that this pattern is due to markets’ learning over time to appreciate the difference in expected future profitability between firms that have good and bad governance (in terms of their levels of anti-takeover protection).
For years, key states in the region – some of them, like Saudi Arabia and Qatar, darlings of the West – have essentially paid protection money to jihadists.
Without protection against deadly diseases like measles, pneumonia, and rotavirus, many of these children are being denied a chance to grow up healthy, attend school, and lead productive lives.
Consumers, policymakers, and companies must work together, not just to agree on common standards of analysis, but also to set the ground rules for the protection of privacy and property.
Women and girls need protection from sexual violence, which flares up when families are forcibly displaced.
The UN peacekeeping force in Congo, MONUC, has a mandate from the Security Council for full intervention in order to provide protection to the civilian population.
But the aid agencies that work on the ground have first-hand experience of the impact of peacekeepers’ presence, and we have the authority to say that protection of aid workers can be dangerously inadequate.
Interior minister Purachai Piumsomboon is hounded because his clean-up campaign affects the police, protection rackets, and the entertainment mafia.
It is a familiar story, one that is consistent with the global pattern of this terrible disease, which claims a life every two minutes: those most in need of protection have the least access to it.
It may simply be that some parents or girls mistakenly believe that one shot of the HPV vaccine is enough to provide protection, or that some socially disadvantaged girls lack sufficient access to in-school vaccination services.
The Hazards Behind the HeadlinesLONDON – Not too long ago, the only journalists working in conflict areas who might be afforded protection were those working for wealthy, predominantly Western news organizations.
When that protection disappears, we will all end up losing the freedoms that democracy was supposed to defend.
Geographical barriers no longer provide easy protection.
Similarly, among World Trade Organization members, China has made the deepest commitment to liberalization of services, India has raised the issue of wider services liberalization, and Brazil has been decisive in cracking American and European agricultural protection.
Some have taken steps to reduce inequality, such as redistribution through the tax system, social security and education systems, various kinds of social protection, and support for effective retraining.
There is talk of currency wars, national management and regulation of banking, and growing demand for greater levels of trade protection.
These policies comprised the structural adjustment programs (SAPs) of the 1980s and 1990s, when developing countries were forced to cut social programs, privatize public services, deregulate industries, eliminate trade protection, and make their labor markets more “flexible” (a euphemism for making it easier to fire workers).
Following up on these remarks, Obama drew attention to persistent US concern about China’s exchange-rate policy, inadequate protection of intellectual property, and impediments to market access.
“For an economy like the United States – where our biggest competitive advantage is our knowledge, our innovation, our patents, our copyrights – for us not to get the kind of protection we need in a large marketplace like China is not acceptable,” Obama observed.
The agreement would also have provisions for intellectual-property protection and what are dubbed the social and environmental issues.
At the same time, macroeconomic policies have focused on achieving and maintaining low-single-digit inflation, rather than full employment, while limited social protection has heightened economic insecurity and vulnerability.
The lack of basic social protection in most countries exacerbates vulnerability.
Indeed, few countries currently provide comprehensive social protection, as defined by ILO Convention 102 (the instrument establishing internationally-agreed minimum social-security standards).
According to the ILO, only one-third of countries worldwide – accounting for roughly 28% of the global population – provide all nine types of protection, meaning that only about 20% of the world’s working-age population (and their families) enjoys comprehensive coverage.
Although all countries offer some kind of social protection or security, in most countries, coverage is severely limited and targeted at specific groups.
Vulnerability exists at levels far above the World Bank’s $1.25/day poverty threshold, especially given rising job insecurity and inadequate social protection worldwide.
By reducing the stresses of driving in heavy traffic and unfamiliar locations, this technology promises greater protection for both drivers and pedestrians.
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