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Example sentences for "protect themselves"

  • And, truly, not without reason do wise historians, like our author, set forth certain events with much minuteness and detail, to the end that those who come after may learn how to protect themselves in like dangers.

  • It is not the intention of the committee to inquire what those restrictions are, and what are the means which, under the constitution, are left to the slaveholding States to protect themselves.

  • Still others live largely in the trees and seek by other means to protect themselves.

  • Certain of the baboon tribes which live among the rocks of high mountains and cliffs, if pursued by enemies, protect themselves by ingeniously rolling immense stones down upon their foes.

  • There was no doubt that, let Congress sit where they would, they would always have sufficient power to protect themselves.

  • Stockmen have just got to protect themselves in this country.

  • The history of this house is worth telling, as an illustration of the sort of troubles to which Indians in these remote regions, unprotected by the Government, and unable to protect themselves, are exposed.

  • Will anything put an end to it but to give the Indians the legal right to protect themselves?

  • The Commons did their best to protect themselves by keeping their deliberations secret, by excluding strangers, by making it a crime to repeat out of doors what had passed within doors.

  • But the peasants of Yorkshire and Derbyshire had neither constitutions prepared to resist the pernicious influence, nor skill to protect themselves against it.

  • The Protestants not only were not protected, but were not suffered to protect themselves.

  • What preparations were made by the city authorities of Allegheny City, to protect themselves and to keep down the riot?

  • In what way did they propose to protect themselves?

  • The object, no doubt, of the organization was to protect themselves, no matter what grievances might be brought up, if based on good authority.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arising from; different course; diuerse places; gave vent; glorious name; her nephew; long chalk; milch cows; protect the; protect them; protect themselves; protected cruiser; protected from; protection against; protective coloration; protective mimicry; protective resemblance; protectively coloured; protectorate over; right ought; she sent; though about; though less; thousand dinars; warp threads; whether from