Sentence examples for acted as a shield from inspiring English sources

The mountains acted as a shield from the outside world.

Turkey has long acted as a "shield for all of Europe", its prime minister pointed out this week, and should be given the help it has asked for.

They acted as a shield between the goalie and the ball as the Cameroon striker struck it, low and fierce and with swerve, inside the far post.

As a precaution, though, the spacecraft turned its large dish-shaped antenna into the direction of flight, so that it acted as a shield against small objects.

Professor Rowan Sutton, a climate scientist at Reading University, said the temperatures have levelled off in the past, the latest example being in the 1940s and 1950s when sulphate pollutants from the post-war boom in industrial production may have acted as a shield against incoming solar radiation.

Mambush – a rock-drill operator with no official rank – emerged from the mass of black workers as a rebel leader demanding justice, while some of those who were once the spearhead of the fight against repression acted as a shield protecting privilege, exploitation and extreme violence.

It acts as a shield against disclosure.

The region acts as a "shield" for the electrode.

A layer of blubber may act as a shield against public humiliation.

Two months later, however, Levin is unwilling to act as a shield.

The planet's magnetic field, particularly the Van Allen radiation belt, acts as a shield to solar wind.