The act of defending yourself.
1 The strongest instinct in young girls is self-protection-theyfight on the defensive.
2 There may be an element of political self - protection in all of this.
3 It was self - protection , and there was a moment when it was over.
4 These and yourself will be provided with means of self - protection by Sturm.
5 He was nonetheless a tormented soul who resorted to spikiness as self - protection .
6 Usually one might count on the woman's silence, her instinct for self - protection .
7 Conclusions: During HGE adaptation, the cells form a complex self - protection mechanism.
8 In truth, this is likely to be a form of self - protection and self-advancement.
9 Although the traders want to take guns for self - protection , local authorities prohibit that.
10 The most powerful forces in human nature are self - protection and inertia.
11 It involved a radical internal shift and some extreme self - protection maneuvers.
12 In 1631 a still more searching measure of self - protection was adopted.
13 It was under some impulse of self - protection that he had written the statement.
14 Disguise, camouflage, adaptation: Eliot was rich in the strategies of self - protection .
15 You must have done something, because that gun's purely for self - protection .
16 Said he would kill you, apparently commenced then, and you acted in self - protection .
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