6. Guard Against Threats.
He chuckled when he remembered a photograph of Mr. Blair in the rain during his short vacation in the countryside, wearing a traditional Barbour jacket to guard against the elements.
Thus, one risks a citation and arrest for sleeping in public with any protection to guard against the elements.
Many of the papers illustrate the power of health professionals in particular to guard against the worst elements of market reform and enable continuity through collaboration with longstanding partners.
The battle pitted the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), stationed in five barracks in the town, and paramilitary elements of the Serbian Guard against the Croatian National Guard (ZNG), police forces based in Gospić and police reinforcements from elsewhere in Croatia.
Surgical masks do not filter at the level necessary to block small particulate matter of 2.5 microns, considered by the W.H.O as the primary element of urban pollution to guard against.
Ethnic Villa IV was once a traditional Balinese home, and Ethnic II is a double-storey minahasa dwelling from Sulawesi with Balinese elements built originally on stilts (to guard against floods and termites) that is shot frequently by film crews from Jakarta.
It involves key elements such as random allocation, concealment of allocation, and blinding to guard against design-related biases.
To guard against oppression by the federal government, or against uprisings and attacks by the dissident elements in their midst — slaves, Indians and debtors?
The first three approaches (prevention, preemption, and deterrence) are passive measures to guard against attacks, and the latter three (deflection, detection, and countermeasures) are active measures to protect elements in a system.
