Sentence examples for defend properties from inspiring English sources

Shepherd said the fire crews had managed to defend properties in the area.

Only territorial males breed; they defend properties as small as 8 hectares (20 acres), but they do this for only a few weeks.

He criticised the forming of vigilante groups to defend property.

The National Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, has opened an investigation to decide if it will defend property owners.

The courts today sometimes defend property rights and business contracts even when powerful state interests are on the other side.

When organized, however, violence can be socially productive; it can be employed to defend property rights, thereby strengthening the incentives to engage in productive activity.

The people with guns and a claim to the state's monopoly on violence show up to defend property arrangements at home and the national interests abroad.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), now before America's Congress, is the latest of many recent attempts to defend property rights on the internet.The bill aims to cut off Americans' access to foreign pirate websites by squeezing intermediaries.

No one else in the Senate was willing to go to such lengths to defend property in human beings, and no one seemed to agree with Davis that Congress had no authority to abolish slavery in the capital.

Also on view is a selection of photographs from Mr. Norman's offhandedly subversive little book, "The Contemporary Picturesque," which documents how cities defend property from use by the indigent: tamper-resistant trash bins, subway benches too narrow for lying down.

In 2008, six Greenpeace volunteers were acquitted of criminal damage after pleading not guilty and relying on the defence of "lawful excuse", claiming that they shut the power station to defend property of a greater value from the global impact of climate change.