1.   The need to protect the residents of the base from environmental hazards places severe demands on its design and construction.

2.   The conference also decided to establish defence committees to protect township residents against attack.

3.   At the Trinity Retirement Center, the residents are protected by employees, and by each other.

4.   A handful of Republican senators derailed a bill designed to protect nursing home residents from abuse.

5.   But Adult Protective Services is supposed to protect the residents.

6.   But barbed wire alone could not protect the residents.

7.   But the controversial ordinances were seen by the town leadership as ways to open government and protect residents in a primarily immigrant community.

8.   Cooley said California has the toughest anti-terrorism laws in the nation and those laws can be used to protect residents from nuclear, chemical and biological terrorist attacks.

9.   Dan Weiler, a spokesman for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, said that the Democrats were also interested in protecting residents and would carefully consider the bill.