"as a protective shield" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used as a prepositional phrase to describe something that is used for protection or defense. Example: The thick armor served as a protective shield for the knight as he battled against the fierce dragon.
"Henry Kravis was the investor, but for a time Primedia was there as a protective shield".
The rote repetition of a tidy cliché about artistic autonomy rings hollow when it is used as a protective shield.
After the Lehman crash and the onset of crisis in 2008, being part of the euro was seen as a protective shield.
Microsoft said it would sell a 32-gigabyte Surface bundled with a black Touch Cover, a keyboard that doubles as a protective shield for the tablet, for $600.
Relocating to California may be, for some people, a chance for a fresh start in life, but it is not a chance to walk away from valid contractual obligations, claiming California policy as a protective shield.
Jupiter's serves as a protective shield against comet impacts, enabling life to flourish on Earth, so the discovery encouraged speculation that an Earth-size planet could exist between Cancri and its Jupiter, and that it might harbor life.
Jodie frequently calls upon Aiden to provide different abilities, such as form a protective shield around her, allow the dead to speak to the living through her, grant her an ability to see events of the recent past, and enable her to heal a character's wounds.
Glycans at Asn276 have been described as providing a protective shield for CD4 bind site (CD4bs) and were targeted by bnAbs HJ16 and 8ANC195.
Hyaluronan provides a protective shield as well as a matrix scaffolding for two situations that are particularly critical to the protection and survival of vertebrate species: (1) in the cumulus mass that surrounds the vertebrate ovum (Salustri et al. 1999) and (2) in the ECM of the stem cell niche (Haylock and Nilsson 2006; Schraufstatter et al. 2010).
This rich, highly expressive language, which one scholar in the film likens to Shakespeare's English, is remembered as having been "a protective shield" and "a portable homeland" separating insular rural Jews from their Russian neighbors.
In 2001, the state denied a stress-related claim filed by an officer at Southport Correctional Facility after an inmate doused him 13 times with feces and urine as he bolted a protective shield over the inmate's cell, said Joe Green, a union official.
