Ejemplos de uso de tutelary
1. His children and personal friends form for him the entire human race ... while above them rises an immense and tutelary power, that of the state". The message of the government‘s latest fusillade of initiatives is that local leadership is "too cumbersome, too remote from reality". It means variant standards and a loss of central command.
2. Within the context of the linguistic science I was also explaining to women the meaning of "Men are the tutelary guardians of womens interests and welfare [Koran verse]." Men and women might think that this means "dominance over women," because standing up for those who are sitting down is known in the language in Arabic standing up and being a guardian are of the same root however, women are not sitting down out of feebleness, but because they are either giving birth or bringing up children, and men with their muscles stand up, come and go, and serve; for instance, the waiter who serves us in a restaurant is standing up for us.