Liberalism is about how people are to be shielded from undue power, be it political, economic or social.
Now, apparently, even discussions of the case are to be shielded from the general public.
But in youth, at least in rich countries, they are likely to be shielded from the actual giving up of the ghost, quotidian event though it is.
Wanting to be shielded from the elements is not very northern hemisphere, certainly not very Munster.
The residents of the cooperatives and their volunteer boards are entitled to be shielded from vexatious litigation, unless a rejected applicant can show probable cause that the law has been violated.
Adding urgency this year, the Pinelands Commission is conducting a review of the master plan that could result in changes to address the searing growth in areas like Egg Harbor Township, near Atlantic City, that are supposed to be shielded from development run amok.
Nuclei that are surrounded by regions of high electron density, such as the hydrogen atoms of tetramethylsilane, are said to be shielded from the applied field of the instrument's magnet.
This is a contrast to previous years, when large telecommunications providers were generally thought to be shielded from an economic downturn because demand for their basic products like local and long-distance service remained strong.
Another may be Moscow's reflexive desire to be shielded from foreign eyes that might see things President Putin and his military commanders do not want them to see.
A decade later, the University of Massachusetts psychologists Bobbi Fibel and W. Daniel Hale realized that the effect went even further: when you thought you'd do well over all — a mind-set that they termed a "generalized expectancy of success" — you were more likely to be shielded from negative life events.
