Sentence examples for protective mantle from inspiring English sources
She is certainly the least kinetic of Roxies, wrapped in a languorous, protective mantle of self-absorption.
For years, preservation advocates have pleaded with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to consider enlarging its protective mantle in Park Slope, one of Brooklyn's most scenic brownstone neighborhoods.
In the wake of September 11th , 2001 he and his friend Pat Robertson publicly blamed the terrorist attacks on homosexuality and lesbianism, which had persuaded God to remove his protective mantle from America.
But is a belief -- no matter how ennobled by the protective mantle of institutional religion, historical longevity or broad popularity -- any less arbitrary of a foundation for the giving or taking away of people's rights?
Iron oxides may survive shocks in the cores of grains that have protective mantles of a lower density material.
During the latest Precambrian rise of predators and successive development of sediment bottoms [ 25], molluscan larvae or early juveniles may have calcified their plesiomorphic cap-shaped mantle cuticle for protective reasons.
Whilst the sensory effectiveness of brachiopod chaetae is questionable, it is possible the long, closely-spaced, somewhat rigid chaetae of Micromitra burgessensis and Paterina zenobia may have constituted a protective grille, inhibiting access to the mantle tissues.
There currently exists no published evidence that protective sealing of the shell is directly linked to the stimulation of the brachiopod chaetae, only to the mantle edge itself.
The family's attitude, once staunchly protective of the car business, may evolve when Umberto Agnelli becomes chairman of Fiat later this year, picking up the family patriarch mantle from his older brother Giovanni, who died of cancer last month.
Mantle and Maris, afterthoughts.
