"provide against" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to mean to prepare for or guard against something. For example, you could say "He provided against all possible scenarios before beginning the project."
In 1880, Tombstone's city council passed an ordinance "to Provide against the Carrying of Deadly Weapons".
This approach would require us to weigh the many benefits ecosystems provide against the cost effectiveness of various management options.
She said: "He didn't know what to do to try to provide against the failure of his only child in this new land.
It would have been good to have more books, but this one serves as a culmination of what Michael Dibdin stood for, in writing and in life: place, language and the consolation that worldly pleasure can provide against darker intimations.
By Tess Gallagher With steps freshened by wearing a man's cast-off shoes, I follow the rain-rutted road as far as the fishing boats turned upside down on the soggy bank, their oars secured elsewhere to provide against thieves.
They singled Ridley out for having failed "to provide against the risks that [Northern Rock] was taking and to act as an effective restraining force on the strategy of the executive members".
And this sensitivity increased with exposure – the opposite of the protection antibodies provided against diseases.
In this case, criminal charges need not be provided against a defendant.
Some are involved in the immune system, and presumably became more common because of the protection they provided against disease.
Quantitative comparison was also provided against the experimental data in literature.
Once skin is injured, the barrier it provides against foreign invasion is breached.
