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Court officials say the Catholic Church, which until now had been shielding priests and nuns accused of wrongdoing in Rwanda, has begun to cooperate with the tribunal.
On Sunday, The Chronicle reported that city officials had been shielding from federal authorities juvenile offenders who were in the country illegally, using San Francisco's longstanding "sanctuary city" policy as justification.
American commanders said early Sunday that insurgents loyal to a rebel cleric appeared to have given up control of central Karbala, where they had been shielding themselves at two shrines.
BOSTON — The Archdiocese of Boston on Thursday published a partial list of clergy members accused of sexual abuse, nearly a decade after a scandal erupted here involving widespread abuse by priests and revelations that the archdiocese had been shielding molesters for years.
But he said he had been "shielded" from the truth by his obfuscating employees.
He said the backyard had been shielded off by huge reed mats and he could see nothing.
Eighty million Germans had been shielded against reality and factuality by exactly the same self-deception, lies, and stupidity that had now become ingrained in Eichmann's nature.
American workers may wish they had been shielded from the effects of trade with China, but American businesses, by and large, don't.
But vacancies are also suddenly climbing in Houston and Dallas, which had been shielded from the economic downturn until recently by skyrocketing oil prices and expanding energy businesses.
