protect

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The award recognised the committee's efforts in its oversight of legislation protecting the welfare of animals used in scientific research.

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I wondered if she makes a conscious effort to protect her children from the traumatic inheritance of genocide.

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The ruling irons out recent judicial efforts to protect California convicts from what Associate Justice Goodwin H. Liu called “cascading consequences” of administrative debt.

From Los Angeles Times

The Bus Services Act aims to protect routes at risk of being cut by operators deeming them unprofitable, by tightening requirements for companies looking to scrap them.

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Great whites are one of more than 20 Mediterranean shark species protected under international law, meaning it is illegal to fish for them or to sell them.

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