Sentence examples for a protective way from inspiring English sources

… I think it was two people from the sidelines ran to him and grabbed him - not in a harsh way, almost in a protective way.

The Guardian's head of photography told me that he felt it is a picture that "shows a strong mother and her children grouped round her in quite a protective way".

These results indicate that lignification is a protective way to sequester Cd to the cell wall, thereby alleviating Cd toxicity.

Therefore, it has been suggested that FasL-induced apoptosis in normal vessel wall acts in a protective way by decreasing neointimal hyperplasia and thickening [ 7], whereas in atherosclerosis this mechanism seems ineffective, paradoxically increasing cell migration and inflammation [ 5].

You're probably wondering "Why not just throw the soaps into the wash themselves?" By putting soaps into a sachet bag, it makes a protective way to wash clothing with solid soaps.

Will she view her braids as a protective style, or a way to cover up her problematic tresses?

A query tool in i2b2 allows the computation of cohort sizes in a privacy protective way, and a data export tool allows the extraction of de-identified individual-level data [ 13, 14].

"I'm not going to say anything negative," Michael Duldner, a sophomore accounting major from Flushing, Queens, said in a proprietary, protective way, as if someone might take away his new toy.

Intermittent ischemia is a powerful, protective way to reduce I/R damage of the liver, by reduction of JNK1/SAPK1 activation associated with a down-regulation of caspase 3 activity, which leads to inhibition of hepatocyte apoptosis.

Most had never played anything that required one character to connect with another in such a tactile and protective way, and the idea that hand-holding could be a central mechanic was as revolutionary as it was quietly beautiful.

This is a complete cop-out on their part and a very useful and protective way for them to deflect their problem or issues back on to you.