Does this man live in a neighborhood where all are free loaders unwilling to help themselves, but ready to demand that `` the community '' help and protect them??

* In Mindstorm's Alpha Omega RPG, the world's populations have retreated into arcology city-states to protect themselves from the war-torn decimation of the Earth's surface

Bodyguards act as a shield for the potential target, keeping lookout for potential attackers ( sometimes in advance, for example on a parade route ), and putting themselves in harm's way — both by simple presence, showing that physical force is available to protect the target, and by shielding the target during any attack.

Notable examples of bodyguards include the Roman Praetorian Guard or the Ottoman Janissaries — though, in both cases, the protectors sometimes became assassins themselves, exploiting their power to make the head of state a virtual hostage or killing the very leaders they were supposed to protect.

Classical liberals agreed with Thomas Hobbes that government had been created by individuals to protect themselves from one another.

Butchers also commonly wear a single mail glove to protect themselves from self-inflicted injury while cutting meat.

They are heavily cloaked, as is the lady, to protect themselves from the hot climate and dust on the road.

On one hand they act as immunodepressors, and protect the embryo from the immune system of the mother and on the other hand viral fusion proteins cause the formation of the placental syncytium in order to limit the exchange of migratory cells between the developing embryo and the body of the mother, where an epithelium won't do because certain blood cells are specialized to be able to insert themselves between adjacent epithelial cells.

In order to protect themselves against malevolent elves, Scandinavians could use a so-called Elf cross ( Alfkors, Älvkors or Ellakors ), which was carved into buildings or other objects.

* How can people protect themselves against unforeseen personal events, as well as those in the external economy?

Business owners, professionals, athletes and entertainers require specialized insurance professionals to adequately protect themselves.

They took it upon themselves to protect the Church from what they saw as a heretical change to their faith, enforced by revolutionaries.

Most nations hold the power to protect themselves, others, and police their own territory as a fundamental power vested by sovereignty.

A league was formed by certain lords, who pledged themselves to protect the free preaching of the Gospel upon all their possessions and estates, and to obey the power of the Bishops only where their orders accorded with the injunctions of the Bible, with the university as arbiter of any disputed points.

Among these objects is a wide-brimmed hat, the Petasos, widely used by rural people of antiquity to protect themselves from the sun, and that in later times was adorned with a pair of small wings, sometimes the hat is not present, but may then have wings rising from the hair.

Reinsurance companies are insurance companies that sell policies to other insurance companies, allowing them to reduce their risks and protect themselves from very large losses.

To protect themselves from the ongoing fines, the Keyboard Component was officially canceled in the fall of 1982 and the Entertainment Computer System ( ECS ) module offered up in its place.

Pods of female sperm whales sometimes protect themselves by forming a protective circle around their calves with their flukes facing outwards, using them to repel the attackers.

The term is also used if the fighter is hanging on to the ropes, caught between the ropes, or is hanging over the ropes and is unable to fall to the floor and cannot protect themselves.

Formed by the Prussian Ministry of the Interior on April 15, 1919, for the purpose to allow citizens to protect themselves from looters, armed gangs, and revolutionaries.

" Alexandre adds that " based on other excavations that I conducted in other villages in the region, this pit was probably hewn as part of the preparations by the Jews to protect themselves during the Great Revolt against the Romans in 67 AD ".

During the 1960s, the United States produced propaganda films that cheerily instructed civilians how to build homemade fallout shelters, to protect themselves in the event of nuclear war.

The Spanish authorities chose not to defend the settlements, and the Jesuits and their thousands of neophytes thus had little means to protect themselves.

It is possible that prairie dogs alert others to the presence of a predator so they can protect themselves.

Playing into this, some heel wrestlers will attempt to " get themselves disqualified " to " protect " their championships, although whenever a " rematch clause " is put in play, the said advantage is often ruled out by the general manager to give the challenger a fair shot.

Postmaster General Burleson set about to protect the American people against radical propaganda that might be spread through the mails.

Various metal ions have been found to protect plasma arylesterase against inactivation by urea and guanidine.

The interchange of shop licenses for a nominal royalty eliminated infringement suits among the members of the A.L.A.M. patent pool ( although it did not protect them against outside actions ) and kept open channels for the cross-fertilization of automotive technology.

The Nineth Nanak, Guru Tegh Bahadur Sacrificed his head to protect weak and defenseless people against atrocity.

Some ancient cultures used lime-based cement for the plaster to protect against rain damage.

Anti-cavity mouth rinse uses fluoride to protect against tooth decay.

I had been warned against trying to protect myself, and against letting my courage get in the way of my good sense.

Plutonium-238, for example, requires only 2. 5 millimetres of lead shielding to protect against unwanted radiation.

Often dismissed as an unreliable tradition, it has been studied with attention by modern scholars, in particular Neil Christie, who see in it a possible record of a formal invitation by the Byzantine state to settle in northern Italy as foederati, to help protect the region against the Franks, an arrangement that may have been disowned by Justin II after Narses ' removal.

This failure underscored Ealdred's need for a strong earl in the area to protect against raids.

Their armour was meant to protect only against sabres and light lances.

However, they protect their crews against shrapnel and small arms and are therefore usually included as armoured fighting vehicles.

This is a part of a fixed battery, meant to protect against over-land attack as well as serving as coastal artillery.

Aeacus was also believed by the Aeginetans to have surrounded their island with high cliffs to protect it against pirates.

These elements, which formed the bulk of the population, were not averse to supporting a strong ruler who would protect them against the Arab aristocracy.

Ahimsa is described as a prerequisite for acquiring supernatural faculties, highest bliss and ultimate salvation ; moreover it is said to protect against all kinds of dangers.

As the 20th century dawned, the prevalence and capability of assassins grew quickly, as did measures to protect against them.

To further protect against ABM systems, the Soviet MIRV missiles were equipped with electronic countermeasures and heavy decoys.

For example, a fund may see that there is a substantial difference between U. S. dollar debt and local currency debt of a foreign country, and enter into a series of matching trades ( including currency swaps ) to arbitrage the difference, while simultaneously entering into credit default swaps to protect against country risk and other types of specific risk.

Although a Conservative, Disraeli was sympathetic to some of the demands of the Chartists and argued for an alliance between the landed aristocracy and the working class against the increasing power of the merchants and new industrialists in the middle class, helping to found the Young England group in 1842 to promote the view that the landed interests should use their power to protect the poor from exploitation by middle-class businessmen.

In order to protect against this danger, mixed players must be careful and systematic in their shot selection.

The eye in the sky usually makes a video recording of the table, which helps in resolving disputes and identifying dealer mistakes, and is also used to protect the casino against dealers who steal chips or players who cheat.

After the success of vaccination in preventing smallpox, scientists thought to find a corollary in tuberculosis by drawing a parallel between bovine tuberculosis and cowpox: It was hypothesized that infection with bovine tuberculosis might protect against infection with human tuberculosis.

* Buruli ulcer: BCG may protect against or delay the onset of Buruli ulcer.