1.   At a similar meeting on culture sponsored by the United Nations in Stockholm in March, delegates recognized the need for closer cooperation to protect their cultures.

2.   Citing clauses in the NAFTA pact designed to protect national culture, Canadian Heritage Minister Michel Dupuy announced the tax last month.

3.   Neville said a growing number of Canadians simply do not want the government involved in protecting their culture or whipping up their patriotism.

4.   The Canadian government claims that special measures are needed to protect Canadian culture from the American influence.

5.   The campaign to expand the use of Hawaiian reflects a growing movement by native islanders to protect their culture from oblivion.

6.   The Guthrie Foundation seeks to protect indigenous cultures from encroaching globalization.

7.   When UNESCO relaxed its policy protecting national cultures in their country of origin, the chief beneficiary was the Afghanistan Museum, a small institution in Switzerland.

8.   A local leader of the right-wing Freedom Front party told followers Wednesday night that Afrikaners must band together to protect their culture.

9.   Another speaker, local resident Stefan Lalic, urged Serbs to remain in Kosovo to protect their culture.

10.   Canada maintains the rules are needed to protect its culture from the United States.