Very few of us wake up and decide to buy protection.

Market makers would buy protection when they see their inventory rising beyond normal levels.

When competition gets down to two huge entities, it becomes an arrangement that can buy Congressional protection.

Ships buying protection pick up a security team from one port and drop it at another.

While names could always buy protection on their own, such individual insurance is relatively expensive.

The drug dealers had bought "protection" from other corrupt officers who might try to steal their drugs or money.

Girls bought protection from the law by giving themselves to corrupt policemen.

It couldn't be happening at all if someone hadn't bought protection in high places.

And anticipating those things - unemployment, a catastrophic loss, even death - some people buy protection.

This is who I wanted to buy protection from?