While such buffers may protect the base of cliffs, and the land and property behind them, they often exacerbate the problem by scouring beaches, making them narrower or even causing them to disappear.

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They might protect some base things for you.

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Such political fatalism may protect Mr Yadav's base, but it also feeds the follow-the-leader voting his rivals are counting on.

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The cosy resort, restaurant and spa are housed in a collection of impeccably restored buildings that were once an army base set up to protect the bay from invaders.

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At the Pentagon, American defense officials were privately reluctant to criticize Russia for moving to protect its nationals or reinforce a military base.

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The residual artisan class could no longer rely on privileged access to an illegible knowledge base and opaque organizational order to protect itself.

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During the Second World War, Lough Erne was used as a base for Catalina flying boats to help protect Atlantic convoys.

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Unfortunately, top management and many investors felt that the huge installed base of corporate accounts, using Blackberry secure servers, would protect the company from competition.

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He did report to duty to a U.S. Army Base in Japan (ironic again, since U.S. bases are there to protect Japan from North Korean attack) where he was court-martialed (in his sixties, he wore again his private uniform), spent time in the stockade, and dishonorably discharged.

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