This implicit rationale was understood and protected by providers and managers although not officially acknowledged.
An ongoing theme in the debates about marriage, reproduction, and the body has been the extent to which these issues should be understood in terms of protecting liberty, and how much they should be understood in terms of protecting equality.
The behaviour of participants who refused to install, turn on or use telehealth or telecare technologies could sometimes be understood in terms of protecting the boundary between the home and the clinic.
The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.
Given the speed of technology development, many policy issues are only now beginning to be understood, such as identity theft, protecting consumer privacy online, ensuring equal access to new technology, making government services Internet-accessible, allowing online trading of digital music and the taxing of e-commerce.
Another possibility is to hold that non-autonomous sentient beings are also full self-owners, where the rights involved are understood as protecting their interests rather than their choices (see, for example, Vallentyne 2002).
This nomination can be understood either as an attempt to protect Kilwardby from his own Order or as a way of stopping Kilwardby's actions against Thomas and Thomism.
By applying the caregiving system model maternal actions can be understood as an understandable attempt to protect the child from harm.
By applying the caregiving system model which is a part of attachment theory (Bowlby) maternal actions can be understood as an understandable attempt to protect the child from harm.
ThinThread was small, cost-effective, easy to understand, and protected the identity of Americans.
