11.   But that deal fell apart over an unrelated issue involving requirements that employers act to protect workers from illness and injury from lifting heavy objects and repetitive motion.

12.   Canady maintained the bill would allow doctors to defend themselves from a criminal charge if they have a reasonable belief they acted to protect the life of the mother.

13.   Consumer groups charged the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency with acting to protect its own bureaucratic interests.

14.   Cuomo says the court decision forced him to act to protect the integrity of federal funding for homeless services.

15.   Democrats insisted that they were acting to protect the reputation of the House and not from political motives.

16.   Despite suggestions that the roundup was aimed against ethnic Pashtuns, officials here insisted that they were acting to protect the government against a potential overthrow.

17.   Feinstein said the commission had not acted to protect California residents from companies that were reaping undue profits through spiraling energy costs.

18.   For example, the federal government can act to protect public safety if the birds carry the deadly West Nile virus, Breyer said.

19.   Foote said that the real purpose of his activism is to force elected public officials to act to protect private property.

20.   Had the government not acted to protect the real, things could have been worse in the long run, automakers and analysts agree.