Word: protected
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Home rule cannot satisfactorily settle the essential difficulties of the land question: Fortnightly Review. XLV, 273. LIII, 177. a. The British government being bound in honor to protect the landlords could not allow a hostile Irish parliament to settle the question; Fortnightly XLV. 861; Edinburgh Review. CLIV, 291. b. An Irish parliament would only temporarily settle the question: Dublin University Magazine. LXX, 116; Contemporary Review, XLIX...
...reports to the effect that the majority of seats for the Yale-Princeton game at Eastern Park had been turned over to the speculators are found to be untrue. The management was particularly careful to protect the public in this respect and gave only a very limited number of tickets to the speculators, and these were confined for the greater part to out-of town dealers. The bulk of the tickets were put on sale at regular prices...
...Chesapeake Bay, Bay of Chaleurs, Fortune Bay, Long Island Sound, Battie, formerly Gulf of Manar, etc. (b) A nation's first duty is to maintain the existence of its inhabitants, and a number of the inhabitants of the United States would starve if the government did not protect the seal fisheries. Hall, p. 42; Fur Seal Fisheries of Alaska...
Considerable damage has been done already in the way of breaking glass, and a greater injury is threatened to apparatus of a valuable kind left near windows exposed to the stray balls. Of course the Faculty could deal with matter directly, and take steps to protect the property by regulations and penalties, but it greatly prefers to leave a matter of this kind to be righted by student action. Acting upon this preference, which I am sure you will be glad to justify, it requests the Athletic Association or its officers to take such steps as may make further action...
...action is a direct violation of the rights of the minority. (a) The majority has the power to vote down improper measures proposed by their opponents, but the only weapons left to the minority are the forms and rules of proceedings. (b) The rules are intended to protect the weak against the strong-Roger Q. Mills in North American Review, December, 1889, p. 661. (c) Minority representatives are a necessity-Lalor's Cyclopaedia...