In 1866, most mid-sized German states had opposed Prussia, but by 1870 these states had been coerced and coaxed into mutually protective alliances with Prussia.

The three riders moved in a cautious, mutually protective spread.

Blood sleep in mutually protective groups.

"His characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective," John Kenny Crane said here last year.

While the Phantoms maintained mutually protective pairs, the less disciplined Mirage pilots broke apart to individually engage their opponents.

Prostitutes often forged bonds of mutually protective affection among themselves.

As always, he richly evokes the region's farmland and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective in everything they do.

As long as relatively few channels were available, the studios could ration out their product to broadcasters under mutually protective agreements.

The software is difficult for non-technical users to remove, due in part to its use of mutually protective executable files.

But the two men had quickly developed a peculiarly close and mutually protective relationship, and could agree to differ without falling out.