Sentence examples for has long sheltered from inspiring English sources

Even on North Korea, which China has long sheltered from tougher international action, the Chinese government quickly signed on to a United Nations statement condemning the North's recent attempt to launch a satellite.

I found it telling that this year he received us in the presidential residence at Novo-Ogaryovo in a forested suburb which has long sheltered the houses of the elite just outside Moscow, and he wore a formal suit and tie.

THE highlands of Peru have long sheltered one of South America's larger concentrations of poor people.

Afghanistan's remote valleys have long sheltered tribesmen with an antibody reaction to outside power.

The cause of his excitement is the demise on December 31st of import tariffs and tax credits that have long sheltered ethanol distilled from corn in the United States from the same stuff made from sugarcane in Brazil.

The Milosevic government has long been sheltered by the international community because of the Dayton Agreements, but this cannot go on.

The Breslin has been in operation since 1904, and like its fabled counterpart, it has long provided shelter to artists.

Although the Patriots and Brady were able to find a way, Colts president Bill Polian has long found shelter in the labor uncertainty for the future and the lack of a new collective bargaining agreement by which to structure a deal.

The fear of surveillance and spies — a constant of Libyan life — had lifted, and now people seemed to be allowing themselves to feel things they had long kept sheltered inside.

Other areas of the economy that have long been sheltered by government protection, telecommunications and banking, for example, will undergo wrenching change if China follows through on its promises to the World Trade Organization.

Unlike their British counterparts, the Spanish royal family had long been sheltered from news media and public criticism, in part because the return of the monarchy in the 1970s was seen as having helped smooth Spain's transition from the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco to democracy.