Meaning of protect in English

Examples of protect

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Should older people be protected from bad choices ?
A critic of the data protection regime might note that the legislation protects debtors with more force than it does creditors.
The precursor to having one's integrity protected (embodied by the requirement of one's consent) is the capacity to exercise will, make choices, and communicate desires.
A clause protected with a guard matches only if both the pattern and the guard are satisfied.
Being "fair" was feasible for such owners if the universal enforcement of the union contract protected them from non-union competition.
Thus, it is important that explicit processes be developed to allow confidential data to be used, while protecting its confidentiality.
There is an increasing need for assessments of the status of monkey populations both within and outside protected areas.
Actual choices are relevant not to the idea of the right but rather to its direction of exercise with respect to the protected domain.
The users of the water invested the communal power with the duty of protecting them against usurpers' efforts to divert the water.
In summary, we have demonstrated that brimonidine is effective in protecting against ischemic retinal injury and in preserving retinal function.
Thirty-nine young colonies (32 unprotected and seven protected) were monitored for survival at six sites.
Transmission from these chronic phase rabbits recruits susceptibles into the chronic phase, protecting them from acute infection.
Indeed, protected by the colonial settlement, their effective powers over their own subjects often increased, as did their possibilities of accumulating wealth.
Now, the protective nature of duties does not prevent them from being comparative: the harm protected against may be essentially comparative.
Reproductive privacy can be protected while having a generally effective policy that prohibits cloning except in cases of infertility.
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Translations of protect

in Chinese (Traditional)
保護,防護, 對…實行貿易保護, 為(某人)提供保險…
in Chinese (Simplified)
保护,防护, 对…实行贸易保护, 为(某人)提供保险…
in Spanish
proteger, amparar…
in Portuguese
proteger…
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~を守る, 保護する, 保護(ほご)する…
korumak, kol kanat germek, tehlikelerden uzak tutmak…
protéger, protéger (de, contre)…
protegir…
beschermen…
يَحْمي…
chránit…
beskytte…
melindungi…
ป้องกัน…
bảo vệ…
chronić…
melindungi…
schützen…
beskytte, verne, skjerme…
보호하다, 방어하다…
захищати, охороняти…
proteggere…
защищать…
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