And he does not buy the argument that such zones are necessary to protect the president and other officials.

The plan would protect officials in the country's top five posts from facing trial while they hold office.

Another amendment will be finalized soon that protects religious officials from losing their charitable tax status.

Never was it so easy to silence awkward questions, or to protect highplaced officials.

The camp does have a large bunker to protect officials from shelling, but it is also incomplete.

In medieval times, a bodyguard wielded it to protect officials.

But the language is ambiguous, leading critics to charge that it would protect corporate officials who knowingly issue false information.

A central purpose of the federal investigations, he said, has been to protect officials who failed to prevent so much death.

The purpose of parliamentary immunity is to protect elected officials from politically motivated prosecution while they serve, not to put them above the law.

Does the Commission not take the view that it should also protect former officials who find themselves in such a situation?