Sentence examples for erect a shield from inspiring English sources

That is not to say that an expressive association can erect a shield against antidiscrimination laws simply by asserting that mere acceptance of a member from a particular group would impair its message.

Difficult as it is, I resist the temptation to become so hardened in my skepticism that I erect a shield against considering possible new evidence.

FOR half a century, America's leaders have dreamed of erecting a shield above their nation to protect it from incoming ballistic missiles.

If nurses cannot give the care that they want to give, they experience moral distress and cope by erecting a shield to protect themselves.

Police officers rushed to douse the flames and erected a shield to keep onlookers from seeing the injured and the dead, said a CNN television crew whose members witnessed the event and were detained briefly.

During the summer, Mr. Putin undertook a diplomatic campaign in Europe and Asia against the American plan to erect a missile shield over the United States.

The plan for the joint exercise does not mean that Moscow has dropped its opposition to the Clinton administration's proposal to erect a missile shield over the United States.

But on June 7th he surprised the Americans by proposing Azerbaijan as an alternative site where the United States and Russia could jointly erect a missile shield, serving both European and Russian needs.Russia has acted up in one forum after another NATO, the European Union and the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe so far with little result.

Think about it: President Bush argued in a speech that we must erect a missile shield because classic deterrence, which has kept the peace for 50 years -- that is the principle that anyone who fires a missile at us will be destroyed by return mail -- cannot deter crazy rogue states, such as Iraq, North Korea or Iran.

But the Bush administration's haste to erect a missile shield before the technology is perfected, its shortsighted hostility to important international treaties and its scorn for the environment threaten to undermine American influence and damage relations with Russia, China and European allies.

Mr. Bush and his aides must be mindful that their desire to erect a costly missile shield could undermine their other defense initiatives.