1.   Luck said the means test was imposed to protect the program for low-income families.

2.   Only with such investment will it be possible for Brazil to lower the very high interest rates it has imposed to protect the real.

3.   The restrictions were imposed to protect the habitat of the Mexican spotted owl and the goshawk.

4.   The prohibition on Iraqi flights across southern Iraq was imposed to protect Shiite Muslims, who had waged an uprising in the south, from attacks by Iraqi forces.

5.   The tariff was imposed to protect the European semiconductor market from foreign imports.

6.   Usually, he said, such silence is imposed to protect the informer as well as the case.

7.   Beijing wants to be excluded from the tariffs, imposed to protect struggling American steel producers, and has demanded compensation for damage to its steel industry.

8.   Imposed to protect the ailing U.S. steel industry, they have been heavily criticized by U.S. trade partners.

9.   In this case, it involves U.S. tariffs imposed to protect American sheep producers from a flood of imported lamb from New Zealand and Australia.

10.   Intensive security measures have been imposed to protect the world leaders in a country which has been under a state of emergency for two months.