11.   In recent years there have been significant statutory interventions protecting the consumer.

12.   Amazon said it is taking the appropriate precautions to protect consumers from shady merchants.

13.   Although laws exist to protect consumers from some intrusions, many privacy advocates say that those statutes have loopholes or do not go far enough.

14.   Analysts and advocates generally accept the idea that competition protects consumers by keeping each company honest.

15.   And Gamson said Neeper feels strongly about protecting telephone consumers from cramming and slamming by tiny rogue telephone companies.

16.   And how does that competition protect consumers?

17.   And McCain, who was campaigning in South Carolina Saturday, said his only interest was to protect consumers.

18.   And the lawyers he is attacking say they earned their keep by protecting consumers from calculating corporations.

19.   Antitrust laws were designed by Congress and implemented by the courts to encourage competition and protect consumers from paying unwarranted prices for their milk or VCRs.

20.   As a consumer activist he demands that someone protect consumers by limiting the activities of business.