Sentence examples for protective purposes from inspiring English sources

The petition also called for an end to the detention of women for protective purposes.

He is unshaven and wearing red plastic sunglasses (for protective purposes; he was born with a condition that makes him sensitive to light).

Usually worn for protective purposes, those objects have been infused with a particular type of energy, and wearing them is expected to create paths and possibilities for the wearer, as well as guard them against ill fortunes and evil spirits.

Immigrants were also regularly isolated because they were viewed as a threat to other detainees or personnel or for protective purposes when the immigrant was gay or mentally ill.

But economic considerations did not influence Augustus' policies much (customs tariffs, for instance, were for fiscal, not protective, purposes), nor did he build harbour works at Ostia, Rome's port.

For years, the fishermen of Misawa, a small town on the north-eastern corner of Japan's main island, Honshu, set sail from one of four outwardly unremarkable floating docks, built using concrete and steel and adorned, for largely protective purposes, with several dozen old car tyres.

While those inhabitants (known as the "others") are liars, kidnappers and murderers, ultimately their crimes are revealed to serve a larger, protective purpose.

If ancient war paint was used to terrify opposing warriors, the Vaseline served a protective purpose by lubricating the skin to reduce the friction of an adversary's blows and the chances of suffering facial cuts.

The existing anti-social behaviour possession grounds were intended to have a protective purpose, preventing neighbourhoods from suffering from anti social behaviour connected to a tenant's occupation of a property.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, disputing the city's description of the program as "preventive," told Mr. Hood that "I don't see a protective purpose" because many of the women were arrested after their babies were born.

In the ruling in the PJS case, Lord Mance noted that in the CTB case "reliance was placed on internet disclosures subsequent to the original injunction in support of an application to set aside the injunction on the basis that it served no further useful protective purpose".