Sentence examples for defend property from inspiring English sources

He criticised the forming of vigilante groups to defend property.

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

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

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.

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

"I know when she takes on a new role, all bets are off," said Nancie Marzulla, president of the Defenders of Property Rights, a group that defends property owners in disputes with the federal government.

Already moves have been taken to reduce the regulatory and inspection burden, and to strengthen the rule of law when it comes to defending property rights.

In the year after Kelo, the Institute for Justice, a group that defends property rights, counted 5,783 homes, businesses, churches and other properties condemned or threatened with eminent domain to the benefit of a private party.

Russia needs to pull itself up by its own bootstraps, reforming its tax system, defending property rights, if it is to break its harmful dependence on either fortuitously high oil prices or western handouts.