Sentence examples for it was sheltering from inspiring English sources

Even Julius Caesar spared Leptis after he discovered in 46 B.C. that it was sheltering Cato the Younger, his enemy in the civil war that led to the fall of the Republic.

Gen. Tariq al-Youssef, the chief of Anbar Province's police force, and Sheik Ahmed Abu Risha, an influential Awakening Council leader in Anbar, repeated a longstanding Iraqi complaint against Syria, saying it was sheltering Iraqi insurgent leaders who continue to finance, support and coordinate attacks inside the province.

Here, we studied the distribution of Zelus annulosus among understory plants in the Guianese rainforest and found it only on pubescent plants, including H. Physophora, whether or not it was sheltering an A. decemarticulatus colony, but only rarely on other myrmecophytes.

Afghanistan was one of the places where Al Qaeda was born, and where it was sheltered.

The site was chosen because it was sheltered from the wind, had good exposure to the sun and predictable snowfall.

Situated 177 km from London, it was far enough inland to be safe from naval guns and it was sheltered to an extent by a ridge that rises to a height of 90 m to the north.

"To me, it's sheltering and patronizing," Charles Mitchell says.

The UN peacekeeping mission says it is sheltering civilians in five state capitals, including Juba, Bor and Bentiu, the main town of the oil-producing state of Unity.

"It's sheltered from wave action.

It is sheltered from the wind.

It is sheltered on the west by Bernier, Dorre, and Dirk Hartog islands.