Sentence examples for attempt to shield from inspiring English sources

This attempt to shield her had inadvertently resulted in years of suffering and confusion.

He had transferred ownership of his company to them in an attempt to shield it.

"There was absolutely no attempt to shield someone," said Bergen County Prosecutor William H. Schmidt.

But too often, domestic industries allege dumping in an attempt to shield themselves from legitimate competition.

His attempt to shield a female vagabond from the authorities ends with her being hanged.

Parents and schools who attempt to shield their children from these types of minor humiliations do them a disservice.

8.00pm BST 10 min: Carvajol shunts into Ribéry in a rather over-vigorous attempt to shield the ball.

Asked about the statement's apparent attempt to shield marital rape from legal prosecution, Ms. Sharkawy brushed off the issue as an irrelevant foreign concern.

Its refusal to create new landing slots, on grounds that there is not enough room, smacks of an attempt to shield Sabena, Belgium's national airline.

But this bad idea is really an attempt to shield Mr. Chirac from the corruption investigations that have swirled around him but never actually touched him.

As he has before, Mr. Greenspan warned political leaders against erecting trade barriers in an attempt to shield American companies from foreign competition.