Sentence examples for Offer a shield from inspiring English sources

Councillor Dominic Twomey, cabinet member for finance, growth and investment, said: "At the moment we need to offer a shield to protect our residents from the continued effects of austerity, welfare reform and the damaging housing and planning bill's 'pay to stay' which will hit many local families".

For Mr. Obama, Mr. Bush's economic record offers a shield against voters' wrath over high unemployment and slow growth; majorities in polls describe the nation's economic woes as something the incumbent inherited rather than caused.

Data obfuscation, the creation of noisy data intended to foil data surveillance and behavioral profiling, offers a promising shield.

"It's potentially one of the best jobs around," he said, "but you see guys taking pay cuts to leave, even when they're offered a gold shield there, so you know there's a lot of other problems.

None of the makeshift trio asked to patrol the middle offered a coherent shield for a stretched defence when Kieran Richardson failed to cut out Gray's centre and Steven Reid found sufficient space to spank the visitors level just after the half-hour.

Yann M'Vila (21) offered a good shield to the defence until his error cost the home side the game.

They both offered a human shield -- in the best sense of the term -- protecting one of the most visibly Jewish locations in their city and condemned the murder last week of Dan Uzan, a Danish Jew, at a Copenhagen synagogue.

Biofilm structure and composition intrinsically offer a protective environment for microorganisms, shielding them from the shear stress of urine flow, attack by the host immune system and antimicrobials.

Our results demonstrate that antibiotic resistance genes are not merely protective shields and offer a more comprehensive view of the role of antibiotic resistance genes in the clinic and in nature.

Although texting offers an emotional shield, it is distancing and impersonal.

The commission says this offers them a "shield" from Chinese retaliation.