But in the 1990s countries across Europe began liberalising their economies and exposing once-protected state-owned companies to competition.
More importantly, if Grooveshark must build a uniform site-wide operational process to deal with the small minority of user-uploaded recordings protected by state copyright law, then the DMCA online safe harbors failed at a fundamental level.
It has 6, 500 now and needs only 2, 000, says Merrill Lynch. (That's assuming it matches the 1, 000 annual sales per dealership of Toyota, Nissan or Honda.) Absent a bankruptcy, getting rid of dealers is tricky because they're protected by state franchise laws.
International law notes that freedom of belief is not a right to be granted by the state, but a practice that is to be protected by the state.
Competition will force Poland to reform industries owned or protected by the state, such as energy, farming and arms.
France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom have mountains of debt and feeble share prices, but are protected by implicit state support.
Worse, national governments have protected their domestic state-owned (or majority state-owned) companies from direct competition, while encouraging them to buy their way into strong pan-European positions.
Online investors are generally protected by federal and state laws requiring broker-dealers to safeguard financial assets and information.
State-protected lotteries and horse-races generally offer terrible odds for punters, while their sponsoring governments have imposed hefty sin taxes.
Two chamois, startled at this quiet time of day, bound across the trail, over the wall and into their state-protected sanctuary.
Much of its land remains protected by the federal and state laws, which prohibit picking plants, feeding animals, open fires and bush camping.
Gray wolves will continue to be protected in some areas of the state.
Consumers have generally been protected from any escalating rates by their state regulators.
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The passage of numerous municipal, federal and state statutes forbidding discrimination against protected classes of individuals has spawned large amounts of employment litigation.
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And secular groups also point out that while state school pupils are "protected" from creationist teaching, similar guidelines do not exist to cover children who attend private religious schools - Christian, Jewish and Muslim.
Once dominated by poorly managed and inefficient state-run firms that were protected behind trade barriers, now it is globally integrated and profitable.
Stibich showed that a high-energy form of UV called UV-C could kill C. diff, in either its active state or as a dormant spore protected by a tough seedlike shell.
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"Penn State, with its own system, protected their public image, " he continued.
Five years ago, the National Marine Fisheries Service instituted a fishery management plan to prevent overfishing of sharks in federal waters but the sharks aren't seeing the lines, apparently, and move in and out of federal waters and get caught in state waters where they aren't protected.
All the environmental groups in the state would like to see the northern forest protected.
"Mr. Holmes was a psychiatric patient of Dr. Fenton, and his communications with her are protected, " stated the motion by Daniel King, a state public defender representing Mr. Holmes.
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The high energies at which they're created and the speed at which they grow has protected their secrets for some time, but researchers at Florida State University and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory finally think they've got it figured out.
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This was never likely, and was probably only a bargaining stance, since the power to abolish rests with the state legislature, whose Democratically controlled lower body has long protected the board, in part at the behest of their friends in the teachers' union.
Controversially, the congressional bill also allows for reserve areas in the Amazon to be reduced from 80% to 50%, as long as the state where the reduction is planned maintains 65% of protected areas and if local legislation permits a reduction in reserve area.
Kaspersky Labs' namesake Eugene Kaspersky is worried that widely distributed and potentially state-sponsored malware like Flame and Stuxnet pose dire threats to often lightly protected infrastructure like communication and power plants -- whatever your nationality, it's clearly bad for the civilian population of a given country to suffer even collateral damage from cyberattacks.
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We support what state attorneys generals are doing in looking into the mortgage process to ensure that consumers are protected.
But a sports team is not a cult, and Penn State is not some extreme religious order tucked away in a far-off country, protected by a powerful Pope.
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The 1998 master tobacco settlement between the state AGs and the tobacco industry created a legal (according to some) cartel that protected Philip Morris and the other dominant cigarette manufacturers against competition, something they could never accomplish on their own.
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The US state department said such "extreme rhetoric" was not unusual, but said the US was well protected.
The Republican Governors Association "believes that rebuilding has got to occur at the state level, and of all the Republican committees, we're the only ones who have protected our incumbents, " said Nick Ayers, the group's executive director.
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