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How to use shield in a sentence

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If so, you may be asked to wear a lead apron to shield you from exposure to X-rays.
But every time my mother would punish me by whipping me with the duster, my father would rush over to shield me.
There, by colonizing the peanut pod zone, the mold becomes a living shield against toxigenic fungi.
Uranium was used to shield tanks against attack by conventional armour-piercing weapons.
Raising her hands in defense, her mind instinctively brought up a shield of mental force.
The shield snapped up and cracked the horse sharply across the hocks and the animal brayed and reared, striking the horse beside it.
A wind kicked up and, for a moment, Ford had to shield his eyes from the dust.
The sound of the repetitive wind shield wipers had no affect upon Stevens as he focused on the streets of downtown.
After a few minutes of searching, I turned on the wind shield wipers, glancing into the rear view mirror, checking on Kate.
The three wavy bends on the shield are the three main rivers in the district.
Its own name is of heraldic origin and refers to the three roses in a bend on the shield of the counts of Wasserburg.
Sun is the shield of the clouds, and a shining glory, and the life long sorrow of ice.
Shockingly she used her umbrella as a shield and said snowball simply trampolined off the umbrella and broke on the ground.
The shield did not look especially strong, but it withstood pressure that would have crushed the man.
She squinted as if trying to shield her eyes from a squirt of acidic juice spouting out of a squeezed orange.
I leaned down from my saddle and snatched a shield from a corpse wearing red.
When this type of spear stuck into a shield it would sink in up to the barbs, bend, and make it very difficult to remove.
Children with such injuries should be kept on their back with a protective shield over the eye if possible.
She now had both arms crossed in front of her face to shield her eyes from the tearing winds.
It was simply impossible to observe, even though we laagered several vehicles to shield us from the wind.
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Guards ignored the call or mustered in battalions more often seen to shield demonstrators from army regulars than to hold back the unruly.
We propose that both shield and rejuvenescent phase magmas are derived from a lithologically heterogeneous or mantle plume.
This is going to be traumatic and painful and I want to shield myself from it as much as possible.
Similarly, to deal with the intense radiation environment, the ship is equipped with a magnetic shield that they can turn on when needed.
He claims to offer a service to shield celebrities from the baying media pack on the scent of scandal.
Over the weekend, a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy used his own body to shield a young girl from a hail of bullets.
He said he was held in protective custody to shield him from most other inmates, but he still had contact with some.
An ablative heat shield is made of a resinous composite material that slowly vaporizes during descent.
This heat shield is covered by an insulating layer protected by an ablative material in contact with the hot plasma flow.
Using the spikes of his ballista, all tied up into a belt, Ryud holstered it up to his shoulders, intending it to shield his charge.
Not only was he faster then she was, but he was armed whereas she only had her shield strapped around her right forearm.
Derryn dressed the same as he always had despite going into war, except for the horse he was on and the kite shield strapped around one arm.
I barely had time to parry her first blow with the shield before she was coming around again, sword raised and teeth bared in a white grimace.
The jungle itself held many dangers, but it's leafy boughs of the canopy high above provided a protective shield from wind, rain and even sun.
Sun-protective clothing provides a better shield than sunscreen since it never rubs off or requires reapplying.
The tank provides a shield for the infantry as well as increased firepower and shock effect.
Actually, this is a shield to prevent gas from blowing back in the shooter's face in the rare event of a failure of some kind.
The design incorporates a shield which prevents the thumb safely and rear sight from robbing against the body.
In contrast, the shield blocks the sensor from receiving light from the light generator when the shield is in the second position.
The fusion of the cephalic segments is most obvious when a cephalic shield or carapace is present.
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The top of the head is always covered by a shield of keratin-covered scutes, and the tail is covered by bony rings.
The dorsal shield was pierced by a single, large, nostril-like opening situated in the middle of the head in front of the eyes.
Naupli have a cephalic shield or the beginnings of the dorsal carapace, and no segmentation on the trunk.
The northern part of the shield is truncated by a 10 km wide embayment, open to the north and filled by postshield volcanism.
The shield and postshield stages are separated by a major structural discontinuity.
The structural discontinuity between the shield and the horizontal lavas filling the embayment corresponds to the eroded scarps of the landslide.
The wrapping had come off his eyes but he still had to wear dark glasses to shield them from bright lights.
No attempt was made to shield animals from natural or artificial light other than between the time of drug injection and laser illumination.
His sister lay beside the small girl, her arm draped protectively round her as if to try and shield her from the danger they were now in.
We were shown to a large glass dining table and a bamboo screen was placed around us to shield us.
Look for devices that produce as little UV light as possible at high intensity or that carefully shield the UV rays they produce.
Josh pulled the collar of his grey marl coat up to shield his neck from the onslaught of bitter winds.
Marginal shield fern is an evergreen fern, which grows as a non-spreading, vase-shaped clump with handsome gray-green, leathery fronds.
The oil pan, headers, transmission crossmember, and transmission shield didn't fit.
She reached up to remove the barrettes that held her hair from her face and let it fall as a protective shield around her upper body.
Her other arm held a shield by her side, the base rested on the floor but she was not leaning on it.
On the purple segment at the base of the shield is a silver stag, trotting with one fore hoof raised, within a silver ring.
Attached on either side of the base of the shield is a doubled, stacked scroll with the upper portion the same angle as the shield.
Furthermore, a mechanical interrupter can be used to shield a sort result from contamination by an incorrectly functioning stream.
The nutmeg as Mills tried to shield the ball at the corner flag was a sublime example of justified arrogance.
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He is very adept at using his body to shield defenders from making plays on the ball.
Late Cretaceous obduction of ophiolite complexes onto the Indian shield has also been reported from Pakistan.
The cargo lander would include an aerobrake heat shield and a nuclear reactor on a robot truck.
In under an hour they had set their camp up 50 meters from the concrete pad and erected a camo net to shield themselves from wandering eyes.
Mr S was very prudish and old-fashioned in thinking he could shield his children from his playboy reputation.
Look for one that promises to shield you from a broad spectrum of ultraviolet rays.
For example, the close range shield features quick, multiple hits, while the long-range weapon focuses in on powerful blows.
He flung an arm across his face to shield off wakefulness, hoping to sink back into sweet oblivion.
Nobody's suggesting car mechanics should be allowed to shield themselves, via self-regulation, from competition.
His left arm was nearly useless, and he tried to shield it with his body, but a sudden kick into his side threw him to the right.
Mission engineers are curious to learn how the heat shield behaved as it passed through the Martian atmosphere.
On the shield is the Bath Gorgon, a Medusa mask perhaps representing a water god.
Under the protective shield provided by the central bank, the US financial system has became tilted toward relentless expansion.
The same might be said of rifle practice, as compared with bravely tilting at an enemy with spear and shield upon an open field of battle.
Also, having to take the card out of the shield every time you want to use it negates much of the convenience of a contactless card.
Jesus held his hand aloft above his eyes, so as to shield his vision from the glare of the sun, and blew wind through his lips.
And then a month later, she will be sent to an ocularist who out of acrylic will make a shield that will look like the other side.
The black roundle in the center of the shield with the three stones or rocks affords canting arms for Rockville Centre.
Exotic Amboina wood handles are decorated with a unique compass shield and capped off with Nickel silver bolsters.
It can be a shield too, surely, a buffer between the committing of an act and its execution.
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In Westminster, scores of policemen stood shoulder to shoulder to shield the people's representatives from their constituents' anger.
Seiya shot at her but the bullets were absorbed by her shield and sent back at her.
The boy, hand to his forehead to shield his eyes, scanned the mobile home park.
For what group does not secretly harbor the desire to shield its truths, which it hopes are expressions of Truth itself, from a probing critique?
He had put his hands up to shield his face as the windows of the carriage caved in, showering everyone with broken glass.
The boxes also makes it harder for people to overlook cash machine users and makes it easier to shield pin numbers.
First into battle was Joe, who ran a head-on-head, slightly damaging his shield power from the enemy's explosion throwing shrapnel into it.
The truncheons behind the shield bearing the duke's Arms refer to his office as Earl Marshal.
It was Italian, with a crest on it embroidered with three lions inside the shield with two more lions holding up the logo.
It looks like when the shield generator overloaded and blew, its capacitors dumped a massive amount of energy into the ship's main power bus.
Fire burst out on the ropes, burning them off, but not harming her since she had the heat shield up.
A front spoiler, side skirts, radiator grille and sports exhaust with a specially-designed heat shield give the car an elegant look.
After the craft parachutes to dry land, NASA can easily recover it, replace the heat shield and launch it again.
Because the shuttle was designed for repeated re-entry, an ablative heat shield was not an option.
The heat shield had rebounded and prevented the loss of atmosphere, but the door was damaged.
This caused gases to go through the damaged area during re-entry and thereby causing heat shield tiles to rip off.
The gold heat shield on the orbital workshop was a replacement for an earlier shield that malfunctioned.
Over the centuries, however, various laws, treaties, conventions, and protocols have attempted to shield them from harm.
They tussled on the floor, an oddly muted fight as they were both trying to shield the book from damage.
My stock answer is that we get nanotech and build an active shield defense.
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So, without identity documents, she had to shield her children from the authorities and eke out a living with odd cash in hand jobs.
The man with the brown hair had a small wooden shield strapped to his back and a short sword at his side in a leather scabbard.
She studied Eric and Michael closely, watching them, wondering who would try to strike her next, and what move she would use to shield herself.
High-grade metamorphic rocks, often intensely folded and granitised, form the tectonic shield areas of the continent.
We scored shield color by reference to the Munsell color scale that breaks color into three orthogonal measures of hue, value, and intensity.
He is the only person entitled to display the undifferenced shield of arms, i.e. without any marks of dependency upon any other noble house.
The large and usually horseshoe-shaped head shield was made of a single plate of undivided bone.
This is because the charges on the shield duplicate the crest which in many cases is a demi-creature issuant from a crown.
It was normally possible to make a payment, known as scutage or shield money, in place of performing feudal military service.
The old rock-and-lava ball had built up a nice ozone shield under which life could evolve at a properly sedate pace.
If ice forms at the roof edge or at the gutter, this shield can prevent seepage back into the framing.
This shield is distinct in scale, materials, and technique from the other heraldic devices in this window.
He wore full plate-armor of unfinished black and his shield bore no device.
In the center of each diamond was a small shield with what I took to be a heraldic device painted on it.
The shield maiden would bear the maiden warrior's shield in battle, hence the name.
This was done from the rear of the ranks in most circumstances, and over the heads of the shield wall of the thrower.
You can quickly improvise a shield to cover your forearm by wrapping a suit coat, jacket or overcoat around it.
I managed to get out just before the riot squad made a shield tunnel and corralled the crowd.
There are heat shield plates around the array that have been badly burned to corroborate our theory.
Beside the shield he makes a breastplate, a helmet, greaves and ankle straps, to protect Achilles' tender heels.
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Aeneas casts a spear and it pierces his shield and corselet going into his thigh.
The whole shield jolted as glistening topaz fire erupted from the blade towards the core of the Striker group.
The same holds true for the bendlet and the otter and the wings of the crest and the atom and the shield itself.
The move spelt his doom, for the blow struck home, driving the warrior, shield and all, into the side of the bridge.
In the centre is the shield of Piedmont Savoy surmounted by the closed crown of the King.
Patrick whipped out his new shield and the shield defended against the blow.
Doune then caught a heavy blow to his left side, his shield blunting the force of the blow, but stumbled backwards and fell onto his back.
His old shield had taken many blows and was dented, so he replaced it with a buckler with red trim, a gold emblem at its center.
Upon the shield was the traditional animal, a large bore head with the royal house sword of battle behind it.
Two African leopards adorn the national emblem, a five-pointed white star on a light blue shield with a gold border.
The shield and crest are displayed on William Shakespeare's monument and on Susanna Hall's seal.
The commission's foot-dragging has provided a convenient shield from corporate responsibility.
Since the middle of the twentieth century the United States has provided a nuclear shield to its allies.
He sells the bamboo to supplement his income and provide a natural shield for his small coffee plantation.
Last year's unsung hero, Lee Carsley, provided a great shield for our back four.
A polite tongue provided a shield of tactful silence and banal pleasantries that staved off needless provocation and harm.
As a consequence, this cultural connectedness provides a shield from the emotional invective that results from living in a racist society.
There is no ozone layer, which on Earth functions as a critical shield from deadly doses of ultraviolet radiation.
He thought about the radiation shield being completed for the Canadian region.
If you're considering packing a gas mask for your next flight, better throw in a radiation shield too.
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Between its magnetic fields and the atmosphere, the world has a pretty good shield from harmful radiation.
The entire imaging set-up was covered by dark foil to shield the root from light, which could interfere with root growth.
Unlike Washington, Jefferson did not shield himself behind an impenetrable visage.
Although sometimes mistaken for beetles, shield bugs belong to a different group of insects, the Hemiptera.
The shield bugs were darting up and down the dandelion stems and into the seed heads.
Slugs will occasionally eat the young fronds of variegated shield, deer, hayscented or southern shield ferns.
There are more than 100 varieties of shield ferns in the commercial trade, ranging in height from two feet to four feet.
Fragrant shield fern or fragrant cliff fern is so named because its leathery, evergreen leaves have a spicy aroma when dry.
If the garden is on the drier side but still shady then the soft shield fern is for you.
Cinnamon, royal, and southern shield ferns will grow in full sun if constant moisture is available.
The distinctive shaggy, moss texture and neat habit of growth sets this variety of soft shield fern apart.
On your way into one of the canyons keep an eye open for the lady ferns and shield ferns in the shaded understory of the forest.
This forest has a diverse herb layer of spring wildflowers that bloom from April to June as well as shield ferns and mosses.
Most states have shield laws for reporters, and the details of what's covered varies from state to state.
Should there be a federal shield law for journalists who protect their confidential sources?
But Mr Bashir invoked California's shield law which protects journalists from having to disclose their sources.
The shield law protects journalists in terms of their news gathering and in terms of unpublished information.
The messages, the judge held, were inadmissible under New York State's rape shield law because they had to do with the accuser's sexual conduct.
Prosecutors tried to protect the accuser's privacy under Colorado's rape shield law.
Mayor Island is a shield volcano with a caldera in the western part of the Bay of Plenty, off the east coast of New Zealand.
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When gas from the magma chamber has been exhausted, the lava erupts more quietly to form a broader and lower edifice, a shield volcano.
The eastward dip of the northern part of the shield volcano suggests that the island formerly extended to the north.
He grasped the handle of the shield and the hilt of the sword, and felt himself being pushed along.
Pictured on the coat of arms is a shield with two workers in front of a mahogany tree.
A sudden blinding, flashing, light filled the room, and I had to squeeze my eyes shut momentarily in order to shield my eyes.
Deep down, he's a nice bloke, despite his best efforts to shield that fact from the world.
He sat up a wee bit straighter and allowed more of his body to cover her as a human shield if someone did indeed attack.
The nearly spherical cones have eight to 10 scales, each looking like a shield with a central projection.
He whistled and a servant hurried out from behind the ladies and came down to the flagway to shield them.
His heavy plate armour clanked as he waved his shield arm and brandished a huge spiked mace.
Yes, in the moment of passion and with a mouthful of Chinese food you said you'd be my shield and sword.
One can't help but wonder if the cell phone industry is trying again to get a clickwrap safe-harbor provision that would shield them.
And there are shield and cloak power-ups to help Konoko along, as well as medical hypos which help to keep her health meter up.
We covered our faces to shield ourselves from the nausea and traversed deep into the abyss.
The burly youth held his shield in front, his rattan high, ready to crash down with bone-breaking force.
One warrior stood with shield and boomerang in hand, making no attempt to throw the boomerang.
If there is no challenge as to title then, of course, the shield of indefeasibility protects the registered proprietor.
The privacy conscious should be able to shield their documents from surreptitious sniffers by covering passports in a metal sheath.
He put bracers on his forearms, the right one with a small, round shield attached, and fingerless gauntlets on his hands.
When a lawsuit was brought against the school administration, the French embassy tried to shield them by claiming diplomatic immunity.
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A coat of arms is usually defined as a design on a shield used as an emblem by a family, city, or institution.
She suffered grief, guilt and depression as a result and wants to shield her daughters from the same pain.
The gunman's accomplice carried on with the raid, smashing a glass security shield and taking cash.
She hit the enter key to the shield computer, running the program she had kept quiet about.
To the West a great wall towered over the spired building, acting as a shield to the temple itself and to the city.
By virtualizing all these different parts, in effect we placed a shield over the underlying complexity.
The two that are most often in the news are shield volcanoes, as seen in Hawaii, and composite volcanoes.
This kind of event occurs on all the Canary Islands and other oceanic shield volcanoes.
When these situations occur, conventional methods of mechanical shield machines or excavator machines are used.
The squash bug is shield shaped and if you have ever squashed one you probably remember the smell.
The jet made one last, large, nose-down pitch with the stabilators moving full throw, and I was looking at a glare shield full of flight deck.
The center pin is surrounded with a ring of shield pins attached to the external surface of the bottom wall of the module housing.
Putting his swords away as well he decided to take a shield and a slightly longer sword, double-handed sword.
At least we now know those dark sunglasses function largely to shield the public from frequent bouts of eye-rolling.
He hammered on the shield again, tears of rage and frustration flowing freely down his cheeks.
They cost the same as hammerers, have the same stats but get a shield and are immune to panic instead of stubborn.
The mine was chosen as the observatory's location so that the rock would shield the observatory from cosmic radiation.
Then a thick, terrific blast pierced through the shield and glanced off the ship, blistering the hull and raking a starboard section open.
Instead, there are hundreds of soldiers dug in and on patrol forming a lethal human shield around the base.
A military operations group was formed to shield Western Europe from the communistic Eastern Europe.
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An orle is a perforated inescutcheon, and usually takes the shape of the shield whereon it is placed.
Lead, not being a ferromagnetic material, cannot shield or shunt magnetic fields in this way.
Fess, bend, chevron and pall describes the way the shield is divided and division can depend on the metals, colors and objects within it.
It's a shield designed to protect contactless smart cards from surreptitious access.
Neither intelligence nor courage offer a shield from the effects of the continual threat of violence.
Moisture barriers, sometimes called skin protectants, shield the skin from exposure to irritants or moisture.
But outside of Earth's magnetic field, there is no natural shield from cosmic rays and solar protons.
The Cryptozoic rocks are exposed in the continental shield areas and show patterns of orogenic activity.
To shield you even more by refusing you entry or hospitality would deny your critics even the small opportunity to make their point.
The full shield for the Elliot name was red within a border of silver upon which were eight blue escallops.
For years she tried to shield the girls from her own feelings of anger towards her ex-husband.
Ferns will often tolerate very dry conditions particularly the male ferns, golden scale, soft shield and hard shield.
I doubt he intentionally called the woman, but I think it would be wise to reteach him how to shield his aura.
Backing her horse away from the threat so that she had room to manoeuvre, she unslung her shield and drew her sword.
However, a sword, a battle-axe, a shield boss and a spearhead were still inside the grave.
A number of other male graves contained shield bosses and spear heads, although all traces of the wooden shields and spears had long disappeared.
Last week's riot and the fear of further unrest has caused shopkeepers to shield their windows.
A front spoiler, side skirts, radiator grille and sports exhaust with a specially-designed heat shield give the cabrio Brabus an elegant look.
And, giving up my shield of snideness for a moment, it ends with a wildly entertaining set of out-takes.
Certainly on his seal, Robert's shield showed the nebuly line pattern, and in no fewer than seven rows.
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But while Congress wants to shield citizens against government snoops, it has no such qualms when private companies collect the data.
A transparent safety guard and heat shield protect the working area.
She could have been sitting there for eons for all she knew, the shield of blankness and unawareness firmly in place and ignoring any questions asked.
The savior's novice guard cape floated in the same direction as his hair and pants, and he unconsciously removed the new shield from its back straps.
A checkered band of blue and silver is placed across the center of the shield and this is taken from the Arms of Stewart to denote descent from that family.
One idea I've been kicking around for a shield is a Greek pelta.
A little further aft, pintles and ammunition for machine guns and rapid-firing anti-aircraft guns lie on the seabed, with a gun and its armoured shield among the debris.
Kaerin inspected the men, each one was wearing shiny silver coloured plate armour, each one had a shield strapped to their back and a long sword buckled at their waists.
It's like Mother Nature provided us with a shield from the outside world.
A dome-shaped metal boss was set in the middle of each shield with a grip running across the underside and attached both to the boss and to the wood.
After a while, it will seem natural to erect a canopy to shield the worshipers from the elements.
He could see long, curving horns attached where the pommel would be on a normal saddle, and the rider carried a shield and a long stave, and had a sword sheathed at her hip.
Last week Mary O'Rourke tried to shield herself from the wrath of the pop-eyed ones by voting against one of the get-rich schemes dreamed up by the board.
Some argue that predatory market forces make it impossible for benevolent governments to shield their populations from the beasts of prey that lurk beyond their borders.
My grandmother was a strong woman, she was my guardian, my protector, my shield against those who would wish to see me fail and I thank her for loving me above all others.
On occasion, I suspect her of using the subject of John, which is safe because everything's been said, as a shield to protect herself from scrutiny.
The protective shield remains over your eye to protect it from injury.
How is this possible if the only shield protecting the people against a fate worse than death is to have the reformists, no matter how incompetent, sit in power positions?
Like Grandma, the two guerrillas had taken revolutionary names to bolster their morale and, in the advent of capture, to shield their villages and families from reprisals.
Much slower to accelerate than fighters or gunboats, capital ships rely on their powerful shield arcs, point defense networks, and fighter cover for protection.
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The shield is divided into eight gyrons all meeting at the center.
As a former international with 108 caps, he has taken steps to shield his players from DFB officials, sponsors and other backslappers, especially during team meals.
The radiation shield was completed except for the electron coupler wires.
They would have to take the shield out during that radiation wave.
A traffic cop pounced on them and, screaming abuses, began slapping one of the men, who could not even shield himself for fear that the cart would go out of control.
Other items include Russian swords, scimitars and a shield from Turkey.
This is in contrast to its look-alike, P. setiferum, the soft shield fern.
Too much rest, or attempts to shield the injured part of your back when you move for fear of pain or making the injury worse, may hinder recovery.
We should appreciate that our desires to shield our aesthetic experiences against criticism and the fragility of time subtend our televisual choices.
For instance, good cholesterol, technically called high-density lipoprotein or HDL cholesterol, is known to keep blood vessels healthy and to shield the heart.
It growled at him and latched its teeth onto the windshield, the very tips of its fangs breaching the meager shield and poking holes in the glass.
The only mistake the BBC made, probably to further shield their source, was to misidentify him as an intelligence official, but that in no way led to his death.
The leftmost shield is red, the middle shield is white, and the rightmost shield is colored blue, although the white color is sometimes represented by light gray.
No caring or sensible parent would send their child to play football without shin pads, hockey without a gum shield or the non-swimmer without armbands.
The astronauts will try some new ideas for patching holes in the heat shield in space, but right now NASA does not have a lot of confidence in the techniques.
Melts form at the highest temperatures and lowest pressures resulting in large volumes of tholeiitic magma that form shield volcanoes such as Mauna Loa.
A shield would protect each community from meteors and space debris.
Some forms of disorder became more discreet, as law enforcers concentrated brothels in red-light districts and compelled madams to shield prostitution from public view.
The engineers will be working for the next few months to analyze the performance of the heat shield that protected the spacecraft as it slammed into Mars' atmosphere.
The service module, and the orbital module are burned in the Earth's atmosphere, whilst the re-entry module uses its heat shield to make a safe return.
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Other troopers used a police car as a shield as they carried Dickson inside.
At the end the bezant has a designed belt in a shape of 2 interlaced birch branches with leaves and garden-stuff. The shield is decorated with a crown with 3 pinks.
We know all three parachutes did deploy and the heat shield worked.
If some disaffected street urchin adopted the tone on the train home, a manly Bunyip would shield the little woman with his body and prepare to wield a menacing umbrella.
A prenup, if they signed one, would clarify matters further and could shield them from the communal-property laws.
Last summer, Coleman initiated a recall of some 86,000 grills due to a potentially dangerous metal edge on the heat shield above the propane burner.
He was born in full array with his shield and spear thrower.
Emhart identified problem areas where Chrysler might incur warranty and quality related issues, including the attachment of the heat shield to the vehicle's underbody.
Radial consequent streams cut deep canyons into the flanks of the extinct shield volcano, and these canyons are opened out into deep, steep-walled amphitheaters.
Indeed, the same could apply to rugby where there is little precaution to shield juniors and juveniles from being exposed to the habits of their superiors.
In Lombardy, duelists were limited in the early Middle Ages to just shield and club.
He remains busy trying to penetrate the shield with something much smarter.
Seen from space a sunrise takes on a glory all of its own, the dark shield burning like a crescent of fire-gold as the sun rose from beyond the curve of the horizon.
In the shielded bearings, the metal shield does not touch the raceways. Raceways are the metal rings that the ball bearings are sandwiched between.
Trying to keep the peace is the sage Andy, whose cool intellectualizing goes from being an annoying trait to an obvious shield for his own emotional issues.
It was more sensed than seen, a darker blot in the gale-lashed dark, and he frowned and raised one hand, trying vainly to shield his eyes in an effort to see better.
It is controlled by insecticides and also a predatory shield bug.
Sometimes these vegetable bugs are confused with other shield bugs which are carnivorous and can be quite beneficial in the garden, preying on other pests.
Some hard hats and helmets have a face shield attached to them.
While none of this will shield her from racism, it Grants her privileges that other black people are actively denied.
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I imagined myself fighting against giant rats and drunken centaurs, in shining armour, a sword and shield in hand, and finally discovering the Truth.
You'll laugh at Beethoven's foibles and you'll find it hard to suppress a tear as his friends do all they can to shield him from the world he was ill-equipped to be part of.
Argentina's champions are sponsoring the vehicles that will carry the club's blue and yellow shield on their roofs and doors, while the drivers will wear the team colours.
The shield is nowhere near as strong as the attorney's, and third parties with a colorable need for the information will be able to compel accountants to produce it.
He was able to dodge her long enough to make his way to the edge of the forest and darted into the trees, hiding behind one large enough to shield him from view.
With their armored head shield and trunk shield composed of overlapping bony plates, the placoderms appear at first glance extremely similar to the ostracoderms.
Thorfast would at least have had a heavy wooden shield with a metal boss that he'd have held on his left arm. and an eight-foot-long, metal-tipped ash spear.
Constance tipped her sunshade to shield her eyes, and she and Louis began a murmuring conversation which was impossible to catch.
In the male shield fern these are located along the midrib, while in the marginal-fruited shield fern they are placed on the margins of the divisions of the fronds.
His sword was sheathed at his side, and his shield was ready on his back.
Seeking to shield peasants from the disruptions of the spread of capitalist relations, co-operators successfully opposed the repeal of laws on inalienability of land.
It serves as a shield to give her the strength to get through each day, to ward off the insults that have been hurled at her almost from the day she arrived.
Light slanted through the canopy of trees that sheltered the abandoned field, causing Qiara to shield her face, and squint her eyes up at the sun.
Silvio Berlusconi may have lost his job as prime minister, but his Teflon shield apparently still works.
While a fragmented helmet had been unusually wrought from one piece of iron, the shield boss and sword pommel can only be paralleled by Swedish finds.
The daily message of that outsized shield to Ramos was that just wearing the NYPD inform can make you a target.
He feinted to her left, and as she moved her shield to catch the blow, changed the direction of his thrust and rammed his sword into her lower chest.
In the upper atmosphere, or the stratosphere, ozone is very good, as it acts as a shield to protect life on Earth from harmful Ultraviolet sunlight.
I can only get away with this calumny because of the shield of anonymity.
Blaming the self may allow the perceived deflection of interpersonal hostility and result in a shield against retributory threat from the external environment.

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