Sentence examples for a convenient shield from inspiring English sources
Massachusetts provided a convenient shield for a while.
Now, two years after Mr. Obama publicly declared that Mr. Assad had to go, he is banking on the success of that Russian-initiated plan — which relies on Mr. Assad's cooperation and which the Syrian president offered in a recent interview as a convenient shield against American intervention.
Blaming the law is always a convenient shield for incompetent management to hide behind.
In response to such powerful arguments the senior Conservative MP, David Davis, and smartly forensic critic, points out that home secretaries do not explain in public either, hiding behind the convenient shield that responding to questions might threaten national security.
Not that this was inevitable, but that its impact depended so much on me, on whether I had the character to come out from behind the convenient shield of "are you for it or against it" ideology and find the strength, the will and the means to do what I can to make sure this is done in the best way possible.
So the Republicans have a convenient and sizeable zero-barrier of protective stupid surrounding their golf courses and mansions and trophy wives, shielding them from reality.
It's a convenient rationalization.
Call it a convenient truth.
Pakistan became a convenient excuse.
makes for a convenient villain.
