He said the scooter is a comparatively slow-moving protective device that fills the gap between the foot patrolman who covers a neighborhood in depth but cannot always get to the scene of a crime fast enough, and the patrol car, which moves rapidly but has a limited field of observation.
Further, Mr. Beatty said, you could create a series of protective devices that would be pointless if the boat heeled, as a sailboat inevitably does and even a big cruise vessel sometimes may.
In its glory days — which football historians say ran from the 1970s to the early '90s — the neck roll (a catchall term for a few styles of protective devices that sprout from between a player's shoulder pads) was everywhere.
The majority has in effect undertaken the task of prescribing the size, shape and location of backstops and other protective devices that will satisfy a baseball field owner's duty of reasonable care under the circumstances.
"The protective devices that are supposed to keep the short-circuit isolated to that substation did not work properly," said the spokesman, Stan Johnson.
His calculations led to the design of heat shields and other protective devices that enable spacecraft to survive the friction and heat upon reentering Earth's atmosphere.
Even if the helmet looks fine, it may have developed tiny inner cracks which will make it less useful as a protective device to that thick skull of yours.
Or maybe that's a protective device: a champion of public-private business ventures and a political being who admits that the urge to run for office has infected him "like malaria," he has shaken a lot of hands in his time.
When Dubus says he can't drive alone to Boston, at night on 93, the neighbor says, "that's a protective device....I believe everything we have is a gift".
Professional Athletic Equipment, Inc. is a start-up company that will manufacture and market a protective device for young athletes.
