Sentence examples for they were protection from inspiring English sources

In his version of what happened, according to people familiar with court filings in the case, he thought Chiquita was making payments to security contractors in Colombia but learned only in early 2003 that they were protection payments to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, known as the A.U.C., a group considered a terrorist organization by the United States.

They are protection, but not from the sun's rays.

"He has talked about Nato and our alliances with South Korea and Japan as though they are protection rackets," Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Programme at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

What they get is protection against being bumped".

The result also demonstrated that the proteins were not the reducing agents, yet they might be protection agents in biosynthesis of gold nanoparticles (GNPs).

More than 700 people gathered to stand in what they say is protection of a sacred Native Hawaiian space.

Demeaning those commitments as if they were transactional protection rackets is corrosive and self-defeating.

As a result, they were afforded protection by restricted licensing.

They also vary as to what side of the trade they are taking buying protection or selling protection.

It's protection".

It's protection money.