Sentence examples for as a shield from from inspiring English sources

The mountains acted as a shield from the outside world.

The idea for the robot masks they wear as a shield from fame came from superhero comics and movies.

As a shield from the terrible purity of Singer's vision, I'll look to the corruption that comes from interconnectedness.

They heard that he had thrown himself on top of someone as a shield from the gunfire.

Then the poor looked to President Franklin Roosevelt as a shield from the excesses of capitalism and his New Deal to alleviate the worst hardship.

Another carried a child wrapped in a blanket, another with a stool over his head as a shield from falling debris.

It has been speculated that the dentate gyrus might act as a "shield" protecting from spreading of epileptiform activity from cortical regions into the hippocampus because of the low intrinsic excitability of dentate granule cells compared with pyramidal cells [ 55, 56].

Anonymity has a plus side, they insisted: as an important shield from government and commercial interests, as a vehicle for dissent and debate, as a means to take creative and intellectual risks.

If Myanmar had hoped to use ASEAN as a shield against criticism from the West, it clearly had not anticipated criticism from Thailand and the Philippines.

The checkpoint is part of the barrier Israel is building along the eastern edge of Jerusalem, designed as a shield against bombers from the West Bank.

So the mid-term success for many chatbots will be as a shield, protecting us from the reality that much of the benefits of automation are actually just low-paid grunt work from call centres in developing nations.