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An immediate deployment of an adequate civilian and security presence during the months immediately after the end of the 1999 NATO bombing campaign might well have provided suitable protective mechanisms against the backlash that allowed victims to become victimizers.
These findings, combined with the immature anatomy of the infant dura, suggest that dural bleeding in young babies may be a natural protective device – a reservoir to prevent backflow into the brain’s blood vessels during the pressure fluctuations of normal labor and delivery.
But there is little doubt that new regulations – including financial and commercial regulations, as well as social-welfare rules and tax reforms – will include protective measures for some countries and blocs.
In other words, Hezbollah’s survival strategy partly depends on the protective shell of a rickety Lebanese state.
During this phase, they can register with their current host country and apply for asylum in the protective country of their choice.
But, if America’s protective power has receded, its power to inspire remains unique and can still redound to its benefit in the most spectacular way.
This side of the state/sword must be kept sharp, with the state effective in performing its tasks as protective state and guardian of the law.
It is important for people to recognize that much of what they tend to blame on markets is due to the fact that the double-edged state is too dull to play its protective role for private economic activity, but too sharp in allowing the old nomenklatura and its cronies to carve up state property, often the law itself, in order to enjoy predatory profits.
But, what makes this string of symbolic Chinese beachheads in the American economic heartland an especially volatile issue at this moment is discussion in the US Senate of protective tariffs against Chinese imports, together with a forthcoming US Defense Department assessment that is reported to describe China as a potentially adversarial power.
They would rather confront Russia as they did in the twentieth century – from under America’s protective wing.
By imitating an animal with a well-known protective profile, a weaker one may enjoy selective benefits without the costs.
If there are too few of the original, the profile loses its significance, and its protective value vanishes.
But, while member states readily comply with decisions that abolish protective measures – say, import duties – they hesitate to formulate or advance policies that would grant the European Union discretionary powers to take initiatives.
Protective measures must remain the exception rather than the rule.
Research in Peru has shown that fortifying oral rehydration solution with two of the primary protective proteins in breast milk, lactoferrin and lysozyme, lessens the duration of diarrhea and reduces the rate of recurrence.
This improvement is thought to be caused by the antimicrobial effect of lactoferrin and lysozyme, long known to be the primary protective proteins in breast milk.
An enlightened autocrat can be just as protective of minority rights as a solidly democratic government.
Iraq’s regime is a threat to all its neighbours, and in no way should it be allowed to benefit from a Russian protective umbrella.
As a result, affordable and easy-to-use protective equipment for frontline health-care workers and point-of-care tests that are quick, reliable, robust, and cost-effective have been hard to find.
Indeed, increasingly sophisticated weapons systems and protective equipment are being disseminated to civilian police officers.
But will the rest of the world accommodate Japan’s bold policy experiment, or will it take protective steps and thus impede the operation of a crucial policy transmission mechanism?
This challenge has been particularly difficult because of the nature of the virus, particularly its ability to integrate itself into the genome of host cells, to readily mutate, and to conceal that part of its outer coat that would induce protective antibodies.
To succeed, we must solve the mystery of how to induce the human body to produce a protective immune response.
To this end, the US and its allies should consider striking Assad’s strongholds in Syria, while establishing safe havens for the moderate opposition under the protective cloak of a no-fly zone.
Dying to Grow?STANFORD – We are constantly bombarded with information about the purported risks or protective effects of one or another food, dietary supplement, chemical, drug, or activity.
And ferociously entrepreneurial private enterprise was supported by a broad array of state investments, guarantees, and protective tariffs, in accordance with the “American System” inspired by Alexander Hamilton and realized by Henry Clay.
The protective suits that specially-trained people are legally required to wear in the European Union or the US when demolishing, rebuilding, or repairing any building containing asbestos underscore the risk of pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer for Lebanese who inhale dust from bombed-out houses and offices.
For their part, EU governments should provide the UN - on whose involvement in Iraq they have long insisted - with the protective force it needs to prepare nation-wide elections in Iraq later in the year, and ask others to join.
But, like epidemiological evidence, laboratory studies have many uncertainties, and scientists must extrapolate from study-specific evidence to make judgments about causation and recommend protective measures.
The OPCW’s supplies of protective equipment could prove woefully inadequate in the event of a major chemical incident.
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