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But whatever our views on these large and contentious questions, I would argue that we should resolve on specific, targeted measures that will protect those currently so ill-protected against the tyrannies of doorstep credit, and will also provide the tools needed to reclaim some skill and competence in the management of money and resource, so that the ongoing destructive effects of economic privation on the life of families can be arrested.

Archbishop - Protect the Poorest From the Effects of Economic Downturn 2008

Hers was among more than a million credit-card numbers that the merchant stored in an ill-protected database.

Grand Theft Identity 2007

Given that this vehicle is so ill-protected, the presumption must be that this was an avoidable death.

Archive 2007-07-01 Richard 2007

There was a time when the man or woman over forty felt something of a survivor; he was “staying on”; relatively the world swarmed with youth, with the swiftness, rivalries and shallowness of youth: the fitness of the ill-protected body had gone already; the elderly people who were “getting on for fifty” moved slowly and had duller if sounder apprehensions.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

When the English war-ships sailed up the bay, the town was ill-protected, and the people had no desire to resist, for Stuyvesant and the West India Company had been most strict, and they hoped to be more free under English rule.

The Story of Manhattan Charles Hemstreet

The day had dawned with a promise of sultry heat, and as the sun rose higher and higher in the heavens the heat grew more and more intolerable to their ill-protected heads and thirsty tongues.

The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley

Cruz, and vessels drag their anchors or break from their moorings in the ill-protected harbour, and are blown out to sea -- lucky if they escape the ugly coral-reefs and sand-banks that fringe the coast.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

The result was that the frontier bordering on France was ill-protected, while the occupation of the lands at the mouths of the Oder and Weser by the Swedes was a perennial danger to northern Germany.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Their first and best chance was to thrust hard at the weak and ill-protected centre, overwhelm it and then roll up the lines to right and left of it.

Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

Suddenly turning round, she saw how ill-protected he was against the weather, and a look of concern stole into her face.

The New Tenant 1906