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Protective in sentence

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First, with respect to depositors or other creditors that are free to withdraw their capital on short notice, a protective government umbrella might be necessary to prevent inefficient “runs” on the institution’s assets that could trigger similar runs at other institutions.
But this source of market discipline would cease to work if the government’s protective umbrella were perceived to extend to bondholders.
Ironically, for those who foresee a tri-polar world of the US, China, and India at mid-century, all three of these states – the world’s most populous – are among the most protective of their sovereignty.
For countries seeking its protective umbrella, the choice is only between in or out, not in between.
Many of these -- from protective labor legislation to long, job-protected, and paid maternity leave, to free or affordable child day-care -- are today at the top of the agenda of many western civil movements.
Yet the UK has traditionally been much less protective of its agriculture, and is thus likely after Brexit to pursue a commercial policy that is very similar to that of the EU, anyway.
One Dalit (the lowest level of India’s old caste system) leader expressed his fear that Anna’s success might inspire some majoritarian leader to rouse an even larger movement to rescind the protective rights and affirmative-action policies that have brought the lower castes some dignity.
The Soviet Union also wanted to surround itself with a protective buffer of like-minded states, and Italy’s Benito Mussolini was proud that for a time fascism was a competitive export.
These include highly paid positions like managers and technicians, as well as relatively low-paid jobs in protective and personal services, food preparation, and cleaning, but few “middle-skill” occupations.
One of his sisters said he was a caring, protective brother, and that she would always love him.
The new/old politics is inward-looking and likes the idea of the revival of the nation as a protective bulwark against foreign goods and foreign migrants and foreign ownership.
In fact, although what happened was shocking, the events in the hours and days after a giant wave slammed over the nuclear plant’s protective seawall might be interpreted as a remarkable testament to nuclear power’s sound credentials.
The other regards those who do not share their faith as unworthy unbelievers, and seeks to build a protective wall around it, or even to be actively hostile to “outsiders.”
They rightly consider many of these rules and regulations to be unduly protective of special interests inside the EU and harmful to a dynamic free market economy.
If citizens had access to current air-quality data, they could choose to take protective measures, such as minimizing physical exertion, staying indoors (ideally in filtered air), and wearing a mask (an N95-rated mask, at a minimum, not a surgical mask).
A recent review found that vitamin D supplementation was safe and protective against acute respiratory tract infection overall.
The European Union must now extend its protective umbrella over the region.
Banks tend to have close, long-term, and protective ties with the managers of such firms, primarily because the bank's holdings are illiquid.
No matter how inconsistent such attitudes appear to be, they remain widespread and cannot be overlooked, because they suggest that people here conceive of NATO as a protective umbrella, not something to which they must contribute.
But the real protective shield for the Gulf rulers is the presence of US troops in Iraq, because the Kingdom’s blinkered strategists failed to see that a failure to engage with post-Saddam Iraq would leave the field open to Iran.
The core protective legal institution for outside finance, the federal securities laws, didn’t fall into place until the 1930’s – decades after US financial markets had grown to finance America’s economic rise.
Britain and Japan seem to have followed the same sequence: finance first, protective institutions later.
In 1999, operators loading spent fuel into dry-storage at the Trojan Reactor in Oregon found that the protective zinc-carbon coating had started to produce hydrogen, which caused a small explosion.
Recently, however, there are signs the Iraqi Kurdish authorities are being more protective of their Christian communities.
This is perhaps not exactly what happened with the Dutch Battalion in Srebrenica, but the recent 6000-page report of the Dutch Institute for War Documentation (NIO) suggests that when it comes to taking responsibility for the hideous massacre of 7,000 Bosnian Muslims under the eyes of a UN protective force (UNPROFOR) in Srebrenica, everyone now washes their hands and looks somewhere else to find who is responsible.
Four epigenetic leukemia drugs, which aim to switch the natural protective genes back on, are now on the market in the United States.
Governments have sometimes reacted with protective measures or macroeconomic initiatives, but in some cases with repression.
Similarly, loss of wetlands threatened New Orleans’ levees, which were built on the assumption that they would have 40 to 50 miles of protective swamp as buffer between the city and the Gulf of Mexico.
It is noteworthy that China’s chaotic effort to vaccinate 14 billion chickens has been compromised by counterfeit vaccines and the absence of protective gear for vaccination teams, which might actually spread disease by carrying fecal material on their shoes from one farm to another.
This was clear in the case of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, who had been accused of domestic violence by two of his ex-wives; his second wife filed an emergency protective order against him in 2010.
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