Some call this obvious ploy a mind game, others call it self-protection with a little bit of hypocrisy sprinkled in for good measure.    From Wordnik.com.  [HerScopes] Reference

Our commission was not revenge, but self-protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference

The foundation of his normal life was self-protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in a Tank] Reference

He is wary, and so takes measures for self-protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Certain Success] Reference

In self-protection we have found it necessary to unite, we.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adaptation] Reference

So in the interests of self-protection, we just left it at that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2003] Reference

LUDDEN: And do you see this as self-protection or a way of punishment?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arianna Huffington Sees A 'Third World America'] Reference

"It is not good to kill in the jungle except for food or self-protection!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference

It wouldn't have made it a crime to use guns for self-protection elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Same Old Claims in Another Language] Reference

"He kind of took himself out of it for self-protection," this executive says.    From Wordnik.com.  [You've Got New Management] Reference

Both sects have turned to militias for self-protection, and also for revenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love in a Time of Madness] Reference

He counseled young black men to master at least two firearms for self-protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Father's Anguished Journey] Reference

Me first wife took to thim so liberally I had to cut thim off in self-protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference

The demand for franchise is England's device of self-protection against Bond designs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked] Reference

John, with the last flickering move of instinctive self-protection, sank to the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference

The smart money says the Republicans, eager for self-protection, genuinely want a bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hmos Under The Knife] Reference

The existence of police does not relieve individuals of all responsibility for self-protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are We 'A Nation Of Cowards'?] Reference

In self-protection it begins to secrete an excess of mucus and if the irritation is great enough, pus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference

All these myriad groups want their own ethnically defined nations, for self-protection as well as pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pride Of Place] Reference

But they had taken surprisingly swift measures for self-protection, and Torrance was momentarily baffled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference

So self-protection is understandable, but let's not forget how this occurred, the most recent events occurred.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2002] Reference

He had his legs crossed with his arms across his knees -- a bit of self-protection from his arms, on both sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Loneliest Hero] Reference

But I think that everybody knows that self-preservation and self-protection is something that is equally as important.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2002] Reference

Today's Consumer Reports Health blog offers more information on self-protection, and on the disease's symptoms and treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travelers beware: Dengue fever outbreak] Reference

Government can interfere with the accidents; -- deadly weapons are, to a certain extent, still necessary for self-protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference

The child's dependence upon its father fell, torn and quivering, before the new-risen self-protection of the pitiful girlhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference

If the environment is non-aggressive, the drivers will have less and less self-protection capacity at mistakes made by others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brain, A Decoded Enigma] Reference

Security consultants today offer a range of services, including intelligence briefings and in-depth "self-protection" seminars.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIP SHEET] Reference

When he calls on kids to finger classmates who carry guns, students defend the necessity of carrying weapons for self-protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Older, Grimmer Jesse] Reference

The deaths of two of his colleagues produced some official remorse -- but mostly artful attempts at bureaucratic self-protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Need Scientists!] Reference

It's the lawyers/accountants/consultants self-protection clause (although those who are central to the fraud remain on the hook).    From Wordnik.com.  [Losing Your Right To Sue?] Reference

These men were close friends, and had been for years, yet they clung to the formal titles, both from habit and for self-protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unnecessary Man] Reference

I think - I don't think there is that measure of self-protection at all, and I don't think it -- certainly was not the case in the Iverson story.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2002] Reference

  In the end, though, the practice of closing ranks in defense of the electorate is far more than a case of journalistic vanity or political self-protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of Rational Voters] Reference

There are groups armed by the government, there are groups like Hamas that arm themselves, and there are a lot of ordinary people buying guns for self-protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2007] Reference