He said it was especially important to finish the new protective wall before new rainfall, expected in the next few days.

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There's a sexy high priestess, the dragon fledglings of a would-be queen, and scary creatures encroaching from beyond Westeros's protective wall of ice.

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As the last Dutch Director-General of the New Netherlands colony, Stuyvesant was responsible for building the protective wall around Wall Street and the canal that became Broadway.

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As it moves beyond the protective arm of the harbour wall, the cool breeze of very early morning picks up.

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This is like arguing that plaque inside the arteries of heart patients is protective because it holds the vessel wall together, Schenk says.

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The gut wall then changes from a protective layer to an open sieve, allowing pathogens normally contained in the gut and then excreted to enter the insect's body.

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