People living in poverty are by definition vulnerable and need to be protected from risk as much as possible, especially when resources are scarce.
Ministers are right to think that the public, wanting to be protected from risk, responds instinctively to the safety-first approach.
Normal Treasury rigour, which would have been sceptical about a business sector whose current size is predicated on obviously unsustainable and rigged super-profitability, was set to one side, replaced by PR guff about the importance of the financial sector and how it must be protected from risk.
The trust was in the process of appointing experienced nurses and commissioning external specialists to help improve safety, but inspectors judged that it continued to fail to ensure patients were protected from risks of inappropriate or unsafe care.
As such, the individual engineer stands as sentry to ensure that the public is protected from unwarranted risks.
He will make sure the White House is protected from surprises or risks emanating from C.I.A. operations; he will ensure that interrogation and detention practices change, and that the Democratic Congress is satisfied by those changes; he will ensure that all of this occurs with a minimum of disruptive bloodletting.
The backers of the scheme said that it will provide reassurance to those visiting pornography websites that they are protected from the risk of viruses, identity theft, credit card fraud and inadvertent exposure to child abuse images.
The share sale is needed to plug a £12.8bn capital shortfall created by new regulatory demands aimed at ensuring banks are protected from the risk of investment losses.
People living in close proximity to fumigated fields, greenhouses, or structures are protected from the risk of significant inhalation exposure through special notice requirements, safety precautions, and the use of buffer zones.
