Sentence examples for long shielded from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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).

The tentative agreement, announced in Vienna by U.N. nuclear officials, could give inspectors access to Iranian scientists and facilities long shielded from international scrutiny.

But the Cecil money has enabled a doubling of their Long Shields Guardians programme, in which villages nominate people to become paid protectors.

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.

You also see - the film being shot from behind police lines - battalions of police in riot uniforms, phalanxes of mounted officers, squadrons of men with long shields, short shields, and batons.

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.

And now, come to fight man to man, or in small parties, the Macedonians smote in vain upon firm and long shields with their little swords, whilst their slight bucklers were not able to sustain the weight and force of the Roman swords, which pierced through all their armour to their bodies; they turned, in fine, and fled.