"Painters have always protected themselves.
"They've protected themselves all their lives by lying.
The police who "protect us all" were being protected themselves.
By doing everything possible "for the patient," surgeons protected themselves against the emotional distress of failure.
Millions of investors protected themselves in the traditional — and most often ill-timed — way.
The security services, which are protecting British people, have to be protected themselves too, he says.
The great buildings of the past protected themselves with golems, totems and gargoyles.
According to the suit, the administrators "protected themselves and no one else".
The horsemen protected themselves by wearing silk underwear, which snagged the tips of arrows as they pierced the body.
But real estate brokers hadn't protected themselves in the same way that bankers, or perhaps psychics, have.
There, having protected themselves from being forced to do pagan sacrifices, they fell into a miraculous sleep.
