Globally just 0.6% of the world's oceans have been protected, compared to almost 13% of our planet's land area.
Likewise some high-tech industries, such as telecoms, have been protected and others, such as e-commerce, barely existed in 1992.
New York had maintained its first-round pick should have been protected because it originally was among the top 10.
Concessionary fares for young people and veterans have been protected as has free travel for the elderly and disabled.
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The judgment was the result of a judicial review brought by two claimants with mental health problems, whose identities have been protected.
Not only are they God's creatures, like the rest of us, but since 1981 they have been protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.
Next, Hoffman whined about having to produce tax returns, claiming that they should have been protected from discovery to protect his financial privacy and for other reasons.
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Bill: In the worse case we would have been protected for a 2% or 3% market decline, and then we would have fallen with the market.
Those kinds of deliberations have been protected under privilege as a matter of the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution by administrations of both parties dating back 30 years.
Populations of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were seriously depleted by commercial whaling but have been protected in most areas for the last 50 years, and most populations are growing.
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But, he added, one positive is that nearly 800 additional children have been protected from abuse because the publicity around the Savile case has encouraged people to call the charity's helpline.
"Anyone who violates the law, and particularly anyone at MF Global who used a billion bucks of customer cash that should have been protected, should be punished appropriately, " Chilton said in a statement.
In such a case, the assets that Raymond and Arline would probably have been protected from their later creditors, and then presumably distributions could have been lawfully and transparently made to their children, who then provided Raymond and Arline with support if their world turned upside down.
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Terrible expectation setting, questionable senior management moves and business models that have not been protected like they needed to be, have put all three of these in the headlines for the wrong reasons and in relevance danger.
Firms have traditionally been protected by their relationship with their bank and by cross-shareholdings held by friendly companies.
Free-speech advocates argue that the "like" should have been clearly protected by Carter's right to freedom of expression.
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Consumers have generally been protected from any escalating rates by their state regulators.
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The animals have been highly protected since the early 1970's.
You will pay a small fee to hang out here, as with many Turkish beaches that have been designated protected parkland and, peacefully, lack the beachfront development associated with many resort areas.
But another case is Italy, where plenty of temporary jobs have been created, but protected insiders have continued to win big wage increases.
Today, the original two have been expanded into protected city blocks of multiple buildings.
But they have also been cosily protected by a freeze on issuing new banking licences, so their owners are loth to cede control.
Since its adoption, and the inscription of the first sites on the World Heritage List in 1978, the Convention has grown and evolved to reflect the needs of the vastly different sites that have been identified and protected.
But although older people have seen many of their benefits protected they have not been left entirely untouched by recession.
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According to Ms Shriver, for over a decade the players have been more and more protected, while the sport itself has been falling further and further behind other sports in attracting a new generation of players from all backgrounds and in carrying out the international ambassadorial role for which she believes it to be so suitable.
Had the sounds of pi been copyright protected, the courts would have been busy sorting out the claims.
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Isle of Man queenies have been awarded the European Union Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) stamp.
Yields on Treasury Inflation Protected securities have been negative for some time.
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The rain didn't help our style of play and when it started to come down the game should have been stopped and the wicket protected.
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