When they were silent in the pause at a traffic light, her father touched the open shield of his palm to the back of her head, the unobtrusive caress he had offered when driving her to boarding school.
This, the Roman eagle, wings outstretched, wearing the princely crown, carries the princely scepter in its right talon and the sword in its left; on its breast appears an open shield topped by the princely crown.
Roland Garros officials have said they hope to have a roofed stadium by 2018, which means that if the U.S.T.A. can fast-track its renovations, it might beat the French Open in shielding its matches from rain.
BERLIN — With laptops open like shields against the encroaching cameramen, the young men resembled Peter Pan's Lost Boys more than Captain Hook's buccaneers when they were introduced Monday as Berlin's newest legislators: They are the members of the Pirate Party.
Each experimental room included an exposure area installed as a one-side-open chamber shielded with RF radiation absorbers.
In his affidavit, Mr. Cohen argued that terrorists used the freedoms of open societies to shield themselves from discovery by investigators, and that the city could no longer afford to abide by guidelines that "place daunting obstacles in our way".
"You need an exhibition designer to create an environment for exhibitions of artworks not specifically designed for these unusual, large and open spaces, to shield the light, to bring down the ceilings," she said.
First, break open your LOL Shield so that all the little LEDs can be separated.
"Bush Runner, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Shield" opens with an evocative, derivative shot of Oil Rig Earth, an industrial wasteland where the sun no longer shines, a bleak post-apocalyptic world filled with oil refinery towers belching fire, Reagan replicants and animoids (genetically engineered animals eating bioengineered food based on petroleum byproducts).
In setting ground rules for the event, the Boston Police Department banned weapons of any kind at the gathering, including shields, open flames, firearms, knives, fireworks and flagpoles.
Use a plastic adjuster or a spanner to open the lock-shield valve.
