What's the difference between protect and protectionist?

Protect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
  • (2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (3) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
  • (4) The transported pIgA was functional, as evidenced by its ability to bind to virus in an ELISA assay and to protect nonimmune mice against intranasal infection with H1N1 but not H3N2 influenza virus.
  • (5) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
  • (6) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
  • (7) In many cases, physicians seek to protect themselves from involvement with these difficult, highly anxious patients by making a referral to a psychiatrist.
  • (8) Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) afforded significant protection only at the very highest concentration (5.0 mM); inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi) did not protect against loss of latency at any concentration.
  • (9) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (10) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
  • (11) They were protecting the sit-in because they believed that, if they left, the police would follow them."
  • (12) These results suggest that CD4+ protective T cells generated by immunization with vBCG are characterized by the ability to produce IFN-gamma after stimulation with specific Ag.
  • (13) After 45 days of the exposition, the protective action of these soaps were evaluated.
  • (14) The yeasts amounts used did not protect the test animals from the kidney infiltration with lipids and cholesterol; 12 g of yeasts per 100 g of the ration promoted elevation of sialic acid content in the blood plasma.
  • (15) The protective activity of the serum was correlated with high titres of anti-erythrocyte antibodies.
  • (16) These and other results suggest that the experimental agents do not provide protection against alloxan inhibition by preventing the entry of alloxan into the intracellular space of the islet.
  • (17) But no such protective effect is seen if the phenobarbitone is administered after treatment with these carcinogens.
  • (18) Benzyloxycarbonylarginine p-nitrophenyl ester and other activated esters of N-a-sustituted arginine salts may be useful reagents for introduction of trypsin-labile protecting groups into peptide fragments for purpose of polypeptide semi-synthesis.
  • (19) We propose that during the detergent solubilization the acidic phospholipids protect the transport systems against denaturation by preventing delipidation.
  • (20) A continuously protective, nontoxic, oral model of chronic treatment with primidone was developed in the rat.

Protectionist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cameron's Danish, Finnish, German, and Polish allies are more protectionist and nationalist than centrist Conservatives and may resist key Tory policies on Europe , for example, pushing for a big new transatlantic free trade agreement between the US and the EU.
  • (2) Ms Le Pen’s party is intent on dismantling the EU , on setting up protectionist barriers, stigmatising Muslims and upending traditional western alliances.
  • (3) Brown said they had extended until the end of 2010 the pledge they made in Washington in November to avoid throwing up new protectionist barriers.
  • (4) The UK can't afford to be protectionist - we've always been exporters.
  • (5) But Europe also has too many impediments to growth: over-restrictive labour laws, too much bureaucracy, too many protectionist tendencies that prevent the full implementation of the single market.
  • (6) Britain was also claiming a victory in persuading the G20 to reject her attempts to put support for some protectionist measures in the communique.
  • (7) Across the world, protectionist trade measures have been on the rise.” Apart from the sharp depreciation of the pound, the IMF said financial markets’ reaction to Brexit vote had “generally been contained”, with shares up and the appetite for taking risk recovering after an initial plunge.
  • (8) With signs that this year's presidential elections in the United States and France will be coloured by increasingly isolationist and protectionist language, Mandelson said the economic crisis of the past four years could easily spill over into a strong anti-globalisation movement, which he said would have baleful consequences.
  • (9) But the high value of the dollar, which has hit exports, and Trump’s threat to implement protectionist measures, including a 20% tariff on all Mexican imports to fund a border wall, have created uncertainty and dented Wall Street optimism for higher growth in 2017.
  • (10) The UK's budgetary contributions are significant and especially pertinent in times of austerity; the common fisheries policy has arguably wrecked the industry and the common agricultural policy is protectionist and costly.
  • (11) While accepting there is a risk of countries becoming more protectionist in response to the crisis, Brown says the real solution is international cooperation for a global growth agenda.
  • (12) In one of the most serious warnings of a tit-for-tat response if the US resorts to protectionist measures, Jean-Claude Juncker said the EU was “in elevated battle mood”.
  • (13) Chapter 18 – dealing with the environment says each party recognises the right of the other “to establish its own levels of environmental protection” but also that “it is inappropriate to use environmental laws, regulations or policies for trade protectionist purposes”.
  • (14) Pilloried even in their own time, their bloodied names have been brought out like Jacob Marley’s ghost every time America has taken a protectionist turn on trade policy.
  • (15) His populist prescription might not raise that many eyebrows in Europe, with its calls for universal healthcare purchased by the state, publicly funded elections, free higher education, more protectionist trade policies and a redistributive tax system that raises money for job-creating infrastructure projects, but it represents a dramatic departure from the consensus in Washington.
  • (16) This involves explaining the nature and limits of the so-called alternative methods which are requested by animal protectionists as substitutes for experiments with live animals.
  • (17) The protectionist cry on trade, one of Trump’s few policy specifics, is a gift to the dispossessed supporters of Bernie Sanders.
  • (18) If Trump pursues a protectionist trade policy with tariffs on imports and exports then Amazon’s business model – which relies on moving goods quickly from warehouses in one country to customers in another and selling them at a low price – will be under pressure.
  • (19) • An agreement to "name and shame" countries that resort to protectionist measures, along with a renewed commitment to free trade.
  • (20) But it said the uptick in protectionist measures since the financial crisis had “not been innocuous” and stressed that anti-trade sentiment could harden.

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