The phrase "actions to shield" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing measures or steps taken to protect or defend against something.
Example: "The government implemented several actions to shield the public from the effects of the economic downturn."
Alternatives: "measures to protect" or "steps to safeguard".
Like BAT, the company will spin its actions to shield unsavory practices.
He subsequently ordered sweeping executive actions to shield eligible migrants, mostly young people and all without criminal records, from deportation.
Clinton supports reform to let people pass background checks and pay back taxes in order to stay in the US, and she supports Obama's executive actions to shield some migrants, such as people who were brought to the US as children.
Advocates said the Obama administration was sending a callous and confusing signal to immigrant communities, approving policies that can send vulnerable women and children back to countries plagued by gangs and violent crime even as he proposes executive actions to shield those who have been here longer from deportation.
"They all took actions to shield these dirty deputies from facing the consequence of their crimes," Anderson said.
Nor did he address comprehensive immigration reform and President Barack Obama's executive actions to shield young undocumented immigrants from deportation, which just yesterday saw another legal challenge.
He took executive action to shield some young students from deportation.
This would not be the first time Berlusconi has taken political action to shield his business interests.
The clerics' action to shield the names of informers and intelligence officers probably averted a bloodbath in some parts of the country.
Douwe Korff (Comment, 24 June) is right to stress the importance of EU action to shield European citizens from snooping by intelligence services.
President Obama's action to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation and grant them work permits opens a new front in the decades-long debate over the scope of presidential authority.
