This group provides a support structure and being exclusive offers protection from anyone in an Out-group (see below.)

The latter offers protection against lava flows and runoff from melting snow.

Wearing shoes in areas where these parasites are known to be endemic offers protection from infection.

There is evidence that breastfeeding offers protection against many infectious diseases, especially diarrhea.

The surrounding wall separates the outer mundane world from art, an ideal microcosm in the garden inside - offers protection against unwanted visitors, too.

Scheduling offers protection because it makes it illegal to undertake a great range of 'works' within a designated area, without first obtaining 'scheduled monument consent'.

Light offers protection against small arms for light armoured or soft-skinned vehicles, helicopters, aircraft and boats.

It is now increasingly accepted by scientists that moderate drinking offers protection against heart disease.

Abdu'l-Bahá stated that the Greatest Name offers protection.

Gbcast offers protection against this threat: the protocol ensures that progress occurs only in a single primary partition of the group.