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