Basically, short-term protection from the Dixie Mafia.
Their usefulness is generally restricted to providing short-term protection for travelers visiting areas where cholera is endemic.
Short-term protection can act as an extremely useful stop gap and it is better to have some level of protection than none.
Short-term protection from the anthrax vaccine requires three injections over four weeks, and a small number of workers received their first shot late last week.
The approach, called passive immunization, is experimental but may offer short-term protection to people most at risk of serious complications of the virus, which include encephalitis brain inflammation.
And the short-term protection from the racism of the resolutions at Durban achieved by joining the American walkout masks a deeper danger: Jews risk becoming identified with the forces in the world that oppose the struggle against racism.
Under Mr. Schumer's proposal, the federal government would provide $270 million over three years so that local prosecutors in high-crime areas could provide short-term protection for witnesses.
Investors seemed fearful that the $957 billion bailout package for Greece and other nations, while providing short-term protection against default, might drag out the economic pain and hurt the financial system in the process.
The person you were lying for was not necessarily innocent, so your lie was not for his short-term protection; your issue was with the magnitude of the state penalty for those who are authentically guilty.
However Arun Jaitley, the finance minister, faces the tricky task of balancing the long-term need for structural reform, particularly of expensive subsidies for household items, with short-term protection of India's poor, who have been hit hard by spiralling prices.
She's one of the Obama Administration's "Dreamers" — the seven hundred thousand-plus undocumented youth who benefited from a program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, which offered short-term protection from deportation, as well as the right to work.
