At 0 C, the freezing point of water, a cubic metre of water has slightly less mass, 999.972 kilograms.

Is this cage meant to protect against sharks?

It was a symbol to defend my identity against ISIS.

It's a fort built to defend the town from invasion.

International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

Plants have elaborate and effective defence mechanisms against viruses.

The WTO already has a safeguard system to protect firms from import surges.

Various walls were erected around the palace to prevent protesters from approaching.

She put on dark glasses to protect her eyes from the sun.

So the eurozone deserves protection from international forces intent on destroying it.

(b) To protect victims of trafficking in persons, especially women and children, from revictimization.

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It may be also a security risk if it is a poorly designed one.

Western Europe evolved from a Community to a Union, and its states became less firmly bound to American protection.

They thus provide an important instrument for hedging price risks in commodity markets.

In other words, Hezbollah s survival strategy partly depends on the protective shell of a rickety Lebanese state.

Israel s nuclear deterrence is its ultimate defense against an existential threat.

Clinton s Administration has done much more, however, than defend the economy against ideological extremists.

If not, citizens may demand protection from foreign competition.

To protect against night time cold, drape material over the garden bed.

Originally, commodity betting was designed as a means of protecting traders against price fluctuations.

Principle of debtor protection

They wanted protection.

Chávez knows that his personal security depends on the permanent protection of the Cuban intelligence services.

The law is on solid ground when it protects children from being exploited for sexual purposes.

Although it imposes hardships on others, the fence is a plausible means of protection against suicide bombers.

Citizens have virtually no protection from wiretaps or the interception of their electronic communications.

Or, perhaps microlenders online use interpersonal connections as a bulwark against compassion fatigue.

Accreditation was the only, though minimal, mechanism of protecting journalists from captivity or torture.

In 1170 a fortress was built at Gaza by the Knights Templar, to defend against attacks from Egypt.

Obama steers clear both of interventions for humanitarian purposes and of attempting to export democracy by force.

Many are seeking to shield themselves from Russia s capricious embargos for example, by seeking alternative energy supplies.

Nathan was the number two person at the San Francisco SPCA.

The ambition must be to turn Brussels into a machine for sheltering labor from the market economy.

(e) The State alleged to be responsible has waived the requirement that local remedies be exhausted.

Circumstances show that citizens of the countries of Central Asia have no defense in the face of local security structures.

The production of Guinness, as with many beers, involves the use of isinglass made from fish.

Similarly, vaccines exist to protect against pneumococcal disease, which accounts for a half million pneumonia related deaths annually.

Protection and assistance measures

Local remedies

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It's for your protection.

One cannot defend oneself against stupidity.

So called rape shield laws should be used to protect alleged victims.

But there is another, and a more important element to safeguard, which is the rule of law.