It is a substantial prop but supports no more than the traditional safeguards for the protection of species and against cruelty and abuse.

"One of the traditional safeguards in testing drugs has been that the investigators have been independent," Dr. Kessler said.

The traditional safeguards that prevented the build-up of overdue charges are no match for today's chaotic economic climate.

It also emerged that many of the banks who gave money to Spano had abandoned their traditional safeguards.

Ownership of the means of production, on the other hand, carries a power to which the traditional safeguards of our political institu- tions are unequal.

Any Congressional effort to refine existing immigration practices involving suspected terrorists must appropriately balance national security concerns with traditional constitutional safeguards of due process.

They support Canada's traditional safeguards for the sick, the unemployed and the desperate - benefits that are far more generous than in the United States, and more costly.

They also depart from usual American legal practice in that defendants are afforded few of the traditional safeguards.

While traditional safeguards easily verified the correctness of formal declarations by suspect states, in the 1990s attention turned to what might not have been declared.

Americans would surely regard the step as a drastic violation of traditional safeguards.