6 sentences with 'protection'
Example sentences and phrases with the word protection and other words derived from it.
• « By the way, it's not the rubber on the tires, as many people believe, that provides protection; lightning that has traveled 20 miles through the air is not going to be stopped by a few inches of rubber. »
• « However, recent archaeological evidence suggests other motives, including the need for protection against rival groups and access to natural resources that were concentrated in a specific area. »
• « Meanwhile, Sparta was the head of a different association, the Peloponnesian League, which was founded before the Persian War as a league of mutual protection of the Greek cities of Corinth, Sparta and Thebes. »
• « In turn, the French king Francis I extended royal protection to Lutherans in France, since doing so undermined Charles' authority. »
• « In many cases, the Dutch East India Company merely used the promise of protection as a smokescreen to seize complete control of a given area (especially in Indonesia, which eventually became a Dutch colony), while in other areas local rulers remained in political control but lost power over their own spice production and trade. »
• « Sicilian landowners, even the most reactionary, were forced to see that the only hope for law and order lay in the protection of this radical dictator and his revolution. Their gradual and reluctant transfer of allegiance to the insurrection was a decisive event and helped make possible the next phase of Garibaldi's astonishing conquest. »