People who are defensive, guarded or resistant may protectively fold their arms across their chests.

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Ms. Jolie's disclosure comes as growing numbers of women are electing to have healthy breasts removed protectively.

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Family members protectively took them inside, past hundreds of reporters and onlookers.

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Jambo stood protectively over him, and stopped other animals coming close until keepers were able to move the injured boy to safety.

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As my dad protectively drove us to and from school, the only places we could go to, I noticed the row of soldiers on the streets.

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By contrast, people who are defensive or angry may protectively fold their arms across their chest, clench their hands into a fist or tightly grip their arm or wrist.

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"It still gets the job done, " he says protectively.

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He never gives interviews, and the only photograph of him to appear regularly in the press shows an unremarkable middle-aged man with a quizzical look on his face and his arms folded protectively in front of him.

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Lawyers and business managers protectively orchestrate them.

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