6 sentences with 'protections'
Example sentences and phrases with the word protections and other words derived from it.
• « In the Ottoman Empire, merchants were given special political and economic status, something that was most evident in the legal protections extended to economically useful non-Muslims. »
• « More horrified by the sexual impropriety of young girls and women around male workers in the mines and factories than by the working conditions themselves, the British Parliament passed some laws mandating legal protections. »
• « These were exceptional laws; new legal protections for workers took decades and constant struggle by emerging socialist groups and parties to achieve. »
• « Instead, socialists tended to advocate a more diffuse and prosaic set of goals: workers' rights and protections, support for the independence of former colonies, and eventually sympathy and support for cultural issues around feminism and sexuality. »
• « Powerful Southerners like the Southerner John C. Calhoun singled out laws like the Tariff of 1828 as evidence of the North's desire to destroy the Southern economy and, by extension, its culture. The tariff, he and others concluded, would disproportionately harm the South, which relied heavily on imports, and benefit the North, which would receive protections for its manufacturing centres. »