21.   Official Roman Catholic teaching holds that capital punishment should be used only if it is absolutely necessary to protect society.

22.   Testing for social drugs is protecting society, not protecting athletes.

23.   The confinement, intended to protect society, is civil -- not punitive, the court said three years ago.

24.   The government has denied any mistreatment of detained Falun Gong members and claims it is protecting society by outlawing the group.

25.   The judge said at the time that the need to protect society from Kinkel outweighed constitutional sentencing guidelines crafted to reform defendants.

26.   The law under which the designation will occur is based on protecting society from contagion.

27.   The Rev. Dr. John Woodhouse told the synod the church had an obligation to protect society from criminals.

28.   There was a time when patents were seen as the means to protect societies, says Gurmit Singh of the Environmental Protection Society of Malaysia.

29.   Bahrain still had to discuss how best to protect its society when it connects to the Internet.