21.   It therefore has far less need of a U.N. buffer that initially afforded some protection from the Serbs, who inherited the might of the Yugoslav army.

22.   Lifting weights at Sing Sing prison in upstate New York afforded Papa protection from potential attackers.

23.   New protections are afforded to intellectual property, including patents and copyrights.

24.   Murray, the Tacoma tree grower and exporter, said being able to send his best wood overseas for top dollar enables him to afford environmental protections here.

25.   No protection has been afforded us.

26.   One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.

27.   That affords him protection by the U.S. armed forces and medical care, but it also means he can be questioned without his lawyer present.

28.   That levy afforded enough protection to negate the flood-plain status of the town in official terms.

29.   The captured members of the al-Qaida, according to Fleischer, will not be afforded the protections of the Geneva Conventions because they are terrorists.

30.   The insecticide kills mosquitoes that land on the nets and repels others, so a net affords partial protection even if it is torn.