1.   The army will take all necessary measures to protect the public.

2.   The police must take effective action to protect the public.

3.   The police took extra measures to protect the public against terrorist activity.

4.   Those incidents are a salutary reminder of the dedication of police officers to protecting the public.

5.   The public should be protected from unacceptable risks.

6.   Friends of the Earth accused the government of caving in to pressure from property developers and abandoning proposals that would have protected the public from accidentally buying contaminated land.

7.   When firearms are involved you must protect the public.

8.   He said he had a duty to protect the public.

9.   Among the proposed revisions are new laws to protect the public from negligent and incompetent doctors banned by other states and physicians who wrangle sex from patients.

10.   And the Arizona attorney general says one of the companies is breaking state usury laws that protect the public from too-high interest rates.