However, his real occupation was to build the family and protect its operations from other criminals.

"The Melendez Organization protects its operations and maintains discipline among its members through a pattern of violence and intimidation," the complaint said.

While the names change periodically, there are two basic security functions to protect the CIA and its operations.

Mr. Forster, how well I am protecting my operations.

Most of the dealers employ people with weapons to protect their operations, the guards said.

Although inflation was far from contained, the defence of indexation used by the banks to protect their operations managed to mitigate its damaging impact.

Did you take any special precautions to insure that it wasn't being used again as an air-raid shelter so as to protect their command-and-control operations.

There, the soldiers are to beat back the traffickers and the rebels who protect their operations.

Related enciphered communications were passed by persistent anti-prohibitionists to protect their operations.

Many such missions included defensive structures to protect their operations and communities.