Sentence examples for shield means from inspiring English sources

The director, Blair Hayes, uses Mr. Gyllenhaal's pointy-chinned naïveté for enthusiastic comic effects; having grown up inside a shield means he has no protective social membrane either.

This smaller "heat shield" means our carbon emissions will be trapping more heat from more incoming sunlight.

Several months ago, Mr. Bush's top aides said they were prepared to offer Mr. Putin several incentives to abandon the ABM treaty and cooperate on a missile shield meant to repel such things as terrorist attacks, blackmail threats by rogue states, and accidental missile launchings.

Testa explained to Pope John XXIII that the shield meant "I am a cardinal because of you alone", and the motto meant "because I am from Bergamo and a friend".

What does this new break in the ozone shield mean, and what is the effect of having these pollutants, including more greenhouse gases, spreading out way above our planet?

Mr. Shields means to separate image from perception: He depicts Vonnegut as an essentially conservative Midwesterner, proud of his German heritage and capitalist instincts, who developed an aura of radical chic.

We see corporations built and run by those without governing powers, so we believe that they're on our side, our swords and shields meant to fight off big government.

Pippin's architecture also revealed extra memory slots and metal shielding meant to allow users to add hardware upgrades.

His room was filled with shields meant to look like they had been made from animal skins and bows and arrows.

Christians are to be accepted as long as they acknowledge Sisi's regime as their protector and shield; that means their political voices are arrogated by the conservative church leadership, which was shaken by a wave of internal revolt in the aftermath of Mubarak's fall but has since reasserted its authority and proved a staunch backer of the authoritarian status quo.

The convention adopted a resolution calling the ballot "woman's sword and shield; the means of achieving and protecting all other civil rights" and another urging the national convention to make suffrage petitioning its priority.