6 sentences with 'protecting'
Example sentences and phrases with the word protecting and other words derived from it.
• « Citizenship was a useful commodity, protecting its holders from harsher legal punishments and granting them important political rights. »
• « Empires such as the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals saw campaigns focused on building and protecting roads, caravanserais and markets. Unlike most European societies, traders were treated with respect and honour. »
• « During the early years of his rule, Napoleon presented himself to his subjects as a reformer and a leader who, while protecting France's borders, had ended the war with the other European powers and imposed peace agreements with the Austrians and the British that were favourable to France. »
• « The reformers, some of them religious leaders of the Shi'ite ulama (Muslim clergy), others members of the merchant classes familiar with European ideas, demanded a more effective government capable of protecting national sovereignty. »
• « In 1990, with just a few hundred dollars, she founded Child Quest International (CQI), a non-profit organization dedicated to locating and protecting children who are missing, abused or exploited. »
• « Comparatively recently - in January 1990 - the BND, the German equivalent of the CIA, informed the Foreign Ministry that various German manufacturers had officially received 'risk insurance' amounting to $85,000,000 and protecting material being exported for the Iraqi missile programme. »