Cockney gangsters no longer run big protection rackets; shoot-outs between would-be monopolists are rare.
If all defendants were given anonymity, open justice would end – and with it, our biggest protection against the abuse of power.
For Tolstoy, the state was one great big protection racket, a monopoly of organised violence demanding money for a false promise of security.
The biggest protection for elderly people has not come from much-debated perks like winter fuel payments, but from the protection of two great slugs of public expenditure: state pensions and the National Health Service.
In 2006 the security forces, fearing attacks by Tibetan terrorists (not that any are known to be active), staged what the government described as the biggest protection operation in the region's history.
Many businesses are worried about leaving their properties empty, says Steven Davies, an executive at Camelot, the biggest protection firm, as their fear of squatters has intensified.Many squatters have simply given up, reckon the inhabitants of the Camden settlement.
Sometimes the biggest protection is just ignorance.- Only friend people that you know and know in real life.
It would be won in a way that many of the biggest protections for the Great Barrier Reef have been won: through a conflict between mining and the reef's continued health.
Repealing improvements to income-driven repayment plans: One of the biggest protections borrowers have against delinquency and default is enrolling in an income-driven repayment plan.
Tom Waters, the chairman of the Missouri Levee and Drainage District Association, which advocates for landowners and others along the rivers, called for easing federal regulations and building bigger flood protection in rural areas.
