Sentence examples for behind a shield from inspiring English sources

US secret service spokesman Ed Donovan declined to say whether Obama would appear behind a shield tomorrow.

Poor decisions are usually made incrementally by a range of people with differing levels of responsibility, and almost always behind a shield of plausible deniability.

Today, the word often appears behind a shield of euphemism, used by polite people to refer to otherness, misfortune, or just something ineffably bizarre (Björk's taste in clothes, your Aunt Matilda's carrot-carob torte).

Any country that builds missile defenses can eventually seize a nuclear advantage by protecting its own territory while threatening any adversary with offensive weapons fired from behind a shield.

But woodwind and brass players accustomed to performing in relative anonymity behind a shield of string instruments may have to get used to close-ups if live HD broadcasts like the one offered in movie theaters by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Sunday afternoon become more commonplace.

A detective recalled heading to the venue knowing only that there was a shooting with a "large number of casualties". The detective and another officer went to look for any injured victims or people who were hiding, moving behind a shield that provided "minimal" cover as they searched, the detective wrote in a statement after the shooting.

Measurements either by the R3DE detector, which is outside the ISS at the EuTEF facility on the Columbus module behind a shielding of less than 0.45 g cm−2, and by the three detectors of the Liulin-5 particle telescope, which is inside the Russian PEARS module in the spherical tissue equivalent phantom behind much heavier shielding demonstrate that effect.

To avoid unnecessary exposure, we recommend that as many people as possible leave the operating theatre, and those remaining either wear a leaded apron or remain behind a shielded screen.

The computers and all additional equipment needed to calibrate and control the stimulus presentations and to register the behavioral and physiological responses of the goats were hidden behind a shielding made of black tarpaulin in the same room that housed the goats.

Mahmood was speaking from behind a screen to shield his face from the court.

"The First Amendment does not provide a shield behind which a church may avoid liability" for negligent hiring and supervision of its clergy members, the court found.