Sentence examples for offers of protection from inspiring English sources

The Kray twins used to operate in this same area, and, I paraphrase Mr Galloway, Labour's scheme resembled their famous offers of "protection".

Graciela Ortiz González, the state secretary for government, said Monday that family members had crossed the international bridge to El Paso, Texas, despite state offers of protection.

Even so, running a club is now a risky business, not because you might get offers of protection from a thug in a matte black BMW, but because you face the risk of losing your license or going to jail.

Their offer of protection is explicitly pitched at white fears about Arabs and other migrant groups.

In need of a new sanctuary, Bin Laden accepted an offer of protection from three anti-Taliban Afghan warlords and flew to Jalalabad.

Less than two months ago, Mr. Bowen turned down an offer of protection from the state, which was made after Mr. Scarduzio had threatened him.

In 620 he met with a delegation of followers from Yathrib, an oasis about 200 miles (320 km) to the northeast; in the next two years their support grew into an offer of protection.

American soldiers stationed there expressed sympathy to their Iraqi employees, but, one interpreter told me, there was "no real reaction": no offer of protection, in the form of a weapons permit or a place to live on base.

The young accused murderer doesn't get to pick where he sleeps or who his lawyer is or how the law will treat him, but he can accept Freddy's offer of protection or not.

House Republicans say that their bill offers plenty of protection.

Yet Mr. Nunez, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, was scared, too, no matter how much Mr. Fox tried to reassure him with offers of police protection.