Naval force projection — selective, demonstrations of force, essentially an early predecessor to modern "shock and awe" air campaigns — was the means by which the thinly stretched United States military protected far-flung trade routes and American citizenry.
But in the last few years, Mr. Adams -- who ironically is a member of the town's Board of Health, as well as president of the New York Poultry Association -- began leasing extra fields so he could spread the manure more thinly to better protect the soil and the water.
Consequently, the ARSK constructed static defensive lines (consisting of trenches, bunkers and large numbers of mines designed to protect thinly-manned defences) to delay HV offensives.
They now form the core system of an emerging extremist movement in Australia that targets Muslims and Islam under a thinly veiled guise of protecting Australia.
The CPD is a thinly disguised scheme to protect the two establishment parties from competition, and perpetuates a political system controlled by the wealthy and big business interests.
He had become a member of the executive committee of the virulently anti-Roosevelt Liberty League, whose aim, only thinly veiled, was to protect the private-property rights of the very rich; in fact, the committee met at his offices in the Empire State Building.
Thinly spread across the most rugged landscapes in the northern districts of the country, along the Chinese and Indian borders, snow leopards are protected in Nepal under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act of 1973.
There, one recent April morning, a group of tired-looking middle-aged men sat around a dusty conference table and explained to VICE News the details of their thinly-funded efforts to protect the country's ancient ruins and artifacts from destruction at the hands of vandals, extremist militants, and unscrupulous developers.
He had to protect a weak, thinly settled frontier nearly 400 miles (650 km) in length with only some 700 ill-disciplined colonial troops, to cope with a legislature unwilling to support him, to meet attacks on the drunkenness and inefficiency of the soldiers, and to endure constant wilderness hardships.
While Apple has made some thinly veiled threatening comments about protecting their IP, they have so far not sought any legal action against Palm for this.
