21.   In general, you must act to protect your own privacy, because no one else has a vested interest in doing so.

22.   In other words, by reinstating Rule XVI after the fact, the Senate acted to protect the anti-environmental riders it had already shoveled onto the appropriations bill.

23.   Michael Wadley, a spokesman for BT, said the company acted to protect its interests.

24.   Moreover, Berlusconi must now counter suspicions -- openly expressed in the newspapers -- that he had been acting to protect friends and associates.

25.   Mrs. Keiser, acknowledging that the company did act to protect her credit, certainly was not aware that a cutoff was a possibility.

26.   Now people must act to protect thickened, sickened forests from destruction by bugs and wildfires.

27.   Once people anticipate inflation, they act to protect themselves from higher prices, Moskow said.

28.   She said the banks would probably act to protect their stake unless Lunsford agreed to rent concessions.

29.   Some Egyptians in turn suspect that U.S. authorities are acting to protect the interests of Boeing, a major business power.

30.   That defense is used in cases where a defendant acted to protect another person or himself from death or bodily harm.