Sentence examples for long shield from inspiring English sources

Tunnel (SHT) located in Shanghai, China, is a 3.39 km long shield TBM (tunnel boring machine) tunnel with an external diameter of 14.5 m.

An additional weapon of defence is a shield which is not round, but a long shield, very broad at the top and running out to a point, hollowed out slightly inside, but externally smooth and gleaming with a brilliant boss of molten brass.

In its review of evidence, the IPCC said it could not find any police planning documents, despite 6,000 officers having been drafted in from different forces, and the clearly orchestrated nature of the police action with horses, dogs, and short and long shield units on foot.

Each Long Shield is provided with a mountain bike, a GPS tracker, and a cellphone.

[The Long Shield] uses a vuvuzela, you know one of these trumpets, to frighten the lion back into the park.

As our person in the park sees a lion head toward a particular farming area, he phones the local Long Shield on the cellphone, who then uses the GPS to go to the place where the lion is.

It has long shielded large banks from assertive regulation and increased capital requirements.

But Russia hesitates to sanction Iran, and China long shielded North Korea.

The governor of the Bank of Italy has long shielded his country's banks from foreign predators.

They spoke on the condition that they not be identified discussing matters Wal-Mart has long shielded.

It can mean opening up product markets to more competition (Italy is starting to loosen the strict licensing system that has long shielded pharmacists from competition).