Sentence examples for were once protected from inspiring English sources

Military officers were once protected by a blanket amnesty enacted in 1995 by the quasi-dictatorship of President Alberto Fujimori.

Politicians no longer control interest rates, the exchange rate, or wages, prices or industries that were once protected or even owned by government.

But at this moment, energy companies like Shell are preparing to invade areas of the Arctic Ocean that were once protected by the ice.

They were once protected minorities in both Iraq and Syria, but the upheavals that followed the collapse of Ba'athist rule have made them vulnerable targets.

The macaques were once protected by the British army in Gibraltar, and, according to legend, British dominion over the Rock will cease when these animals are no longer present; their protection is now the responsibility of the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society.

Charles Wood, a tour guide, led me through hunks of stones, remnants of oval houses that were once protected by conical thatched roofs, and into courtyards that dot the steep, grassy slopes that run down to the sea, constructed from 1200 B.C. to A.D. 300.

Chillicothe was once protected from urban pathologies by its very remoteness.

It was once protected by a patent, which since has long expired.

And the government has dramatic new plans for Lazika, an entrepreneur-friendly city, on what was once protected marshland on the Black Sea coast.

But just as he was once protected by his sisters from the monstrous truth of their family dynamic, Mr. Colvard still stands apart, a brother forever on the outside looking in.

State business schools were once somewhat protected from competition because they could offer local students cheap, subsidised degrees.