In protective clothing a subtle balance between protection and comfort is required.
"There's a desire to protect, but there's a difference between protection and isolation," he said.
Is there some middle ground between protection and completely untrammeled free markets?
"There's this constant struggle between protection and access to credit," said Leonard N. Chanin, a partner at Morrison & Foerster.
This is a world of "full spectrum surveillance" and its countervailing counterpart, wherein the lines between protection and terror are blurred.
Officials at the conservancy, an international nonprofit environmental group, said the transaction struck a balance between protection of wild lands and the region's economic interests.
About forty per cent of Nunavut's residents are on public assistance, and Kublu mused about the problem of choosing between protection and development.
But one transmission expert, Douglas A. Voda, a senior vice president at the electric equipment manufacturer ABB, said, "There's a conflict between protection of an asset and protection of a system".
Easily enraged, Spark always demanded inordinate levels of attention and discretion; she thirsted for respect and invited protection, but, as her biographer amply demonstrates, "the border between protection and oppression was always narrow".
When the question of finding the right equilibrium between protection of intellectual property rights and protection of final users is so crucial, Acta appears to be very unbalanced in favour of patent holders.
There is a great opportunity now for a thorough overhaul of the libel laws in England and Wales to bring them into the 21st century and gain a far better balance between protection of reputation and freedom of speech in the public interest.
