1.   In exchange, the companies would be protected from punitive damage awards on past misconduct but not future misconduct.

2.   The actions we have taken with our poor performing businesses over the last three years have protected the company in a difficult economic climate.

3.   The Witney team want safeguards in any new legislation to protect small companies.

4.   And several have enacted broad anti-takeover legislation to protect local companies.

5.   And the government sharply restricts foreign ownership in joint ventures, protecting Chinese companies.

6.   Bankruptcy law protects companies against such litigation while they are pursuing a plan of reorganization.

7.   A Bush policy of protecting oil companies rather than the enslaved women and children of southern Sudan should not be called realism.

8.   A full breakup of Suez and Generale de Belgique is unlikely, analysts said, because both companies are protected by defensive shareholder structures.

9.   A federal appeals court overturned the decision, saying that tobacco companies are fully protected by the warning labels.

10.   A treaty also would protect companies against being taxed twice.