1.   An elaborate system of dikes built to protect the lowlands from the relentless onslaught of the sea.

2.   Gabriel, sitting under a narrow sort of canopy built to protect his wings, had his lap full within minutes.

3.   A strict firewall would be built to protect this investment from political meddling.

4.   A sea wall was built to protect the city from another catastrophe, and an impressive and exhausting plan to elevate much of the city was undertaken.

5.   Already the protectionist walls many nations have built to protect their fledgling car makers are beginning to crack.

6.   Early Thursday, the river broke through a levee that Army engineers had built to protect themselves as they work on the bridge and an approach ramp to it.

7.   Fort Clark was one in a series of forts built to protect settlers from Comanche and Apache raiding parties.

8.   In a neighborhood where gun-wielding criminals scale the walls built to protect his family, he applauds the Brady Bill.

9.   Levees built to protect New Orleans from spring floods have kept the river from depositing alluvial soil and rebuilding the lowlands.

10.   Palestinians said the embankment had been built to protect the refugee camp from Israeli army gunfire, and that the police there were defending Palestinian-controlled territory.