They didn't care when they issued the loans and they don't care now because, thanks to their bought-and-paid-for cronies in Congress, they're shielded from ANY and ALL risk in issuing these loans.
Those who authorized those crimes have been fully shielded from any form of punishment.
Both Security Pacific and First Interstate will have some shielding from any new onslaught by Wells Fargo.
People on the ground are shielded from any harmful effects of cosmic rays thanks to the Earth's thick atmosphere.
Named American Unity PAC, its sole mission will be to encourage Republican candidates to support same-sex marriage, in part by helping them to feel financially shielded from any blowback from well-funded groups that oppose it.
The main dispute is over German demands for "legal closure," a guarantee from the United States government that German companies will be shielded from any future American lawsuits stemming from their activities during Hitler's Third Reich.
Hensher writes as if foreign writers ought to be protected from the banality of American suburbia — and world readers must be shielded from any literary output that might result from the mixing of the two.
At one extreme you've got Bullingdon Club members, infamous for committing criminal damage and other offences with impunity, shielded from any consequence by their money, connections and visible poshness.
Fortunately, throughout the past twenty years the LII at Cornell has been shielded from any temptation to attempt a comprehensive collection of US law by the size and complexity of this country's legal system and the presence of a diversity of commercial services that have long done that for US legal insiders.
Still, with the northwest portion of the island designated a Unesco World Heritage Site, and with fairly stringent limitations on development, Majorca has been shielded from any further fall in prices, which are now about 10 percent off their peak, said Michael Cunnington, an agent for the brokerage Savills in Majorca.
