Sentence examples for was protector from inspiring English sources
noun
Someone who protects or guards, by assignment or on their own initiative.
It is clear that by historical times he had developed into a god of war; in Roman literature he was protector of Rome, a nation proud in war.
Wahhābī attacks on pilgrim caravans crossing Arabia concerned the Ottoman Turkish government at the end of the 18th century (the Ottoman sultan was protector of Mecca, Islām's chief holy city).
My role was "protector of a drug lord".
The army's claim to be protector of all Egyptians is disintegrating before our eyes.
Suger also saw that the king could and should be protector of the peasants and the middle class.
Mother and children are literally connected through those hands, displaying the need to be protector and protected.
Tigers are protectors, embodiments of wisdom and spirituality.
Police are just as often predators as they are protectors.
Parents are supposed to be protectors, not promoters.
With life expectancy short, godparents were often called upon to be protectors of their godchildren.
Romney thinks that unions can sometimes work constructively with management but that, fundamentally, they are protectors of the status quo.
