Congress passed several other bills giving the federal government power to protect the rights of blacks in the southern states.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

They found, not surprisingly, that it tends to--mutual funds have been growing more rapidly in countries that have stronger securities laws and institutions, especially laws that protect individual shareholders rights.

他们发现,那些共同基金发展较迅速的国家,都拥有比较健全的证券法规和完善的证券制度,其中保护个人股东权利的法律尤为完善

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We like the fact that we have certain rights that protect us

我们希望有权利能够保护我们自己

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Illinois decided that Negroes will not be citizens, but that it will protect their life, property,and civil rights.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

In nineteen fourteen, the date for the observance was changed to March eighth in honor of a history protect for women's rights.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

The settlement must protect China's territorial rights so it would not be divided into foreign colonies.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were supposed to protect their rights.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Their role is to protect the religious liberty rights of students;

VOA: special.2009.12.24

And he said the president as well as he could would protect the political rights promised to all people by the Constitution of the United States and the state constitutions.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

They wanted to protect their rights against the central government.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

The Syndicate of Tunisian Writers was formed in July to protect the rights of authors, poets and journalists whom it said were suffering from marginalization and exploitation.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Houry says governments must enact laws that protect the rights of children.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

and to protect the rights and liberties of every citizen."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

While 29 of the 50 U.S.states have laws that protect the rights of smokers, Weyco an insurance benefits administrator in Michigan, began imposing random smoking tests in 2005 on its own employees.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

President Obama says the Summit of the Americas yielded broad hemispheric agreement on the need to spur economic growth, confront security challenges like drug trafficking, promote alternative fuels, protect the environment, and ensure human rights.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

But those days are apparently over. The head of the U.S.delegation, Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs Esther Brimmer, told the 47-member Council the United States will work with other nations to forge common ground to protect and advance human rights.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

In his Cairo address, President Obama pledged to support governments that protect the rights of people to speak their minds and have a say in how they are governed, that respect the rule of law and the equal administration of justice, that are transparent and don't steal from the people.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11