Sentence examples for shield rather than from inspiring English sources
But the court in Reynolds said the case might have turned out differently if the government had been using the privilege as a litigation shield rather than as a sword.
Just as Paul Scholes often played deeper for Manchester United, so Ramsey needs to accept that Alexis Sánchez has that forward role, that his job in the current team is to score less and play more, to be a shield rather than a sword.
"With the IPA (Innovator's Patent Agreement) employees can be assured that their patents will only be used as a shield rather than as a weapon".
With the IPA, employees can be assured that their patents will be used only as a shield rather than as a weapon.
Unlike some of the earlier boats of its class, it was not equipped with a 4 inch gun with a full shield, rather than a standard open gun mounting.
PAP troops occasionally patrol the streets, but with soft hats and carrying batons and shields rather than guns.
Once Casey has obtained enough power stars and has transformed into her warrior form, a half human, half snake hybrid, her power is upgraded to "Streak Guardian +." With this upgrade, the player is given 2 shields rather than 1, and maintaining high note streaks grants up to 5 power stars.
The range of expression levels observed for the rice serpin genes might be due to a need for some serpins to play a role as defensive shields rather than (or as well as) acting as regulatory proteins, and hence to be present at relatively high concentrations [ 21, 22].
"His... request is a thinly veiled attempt to shield himself, rather than the minor children, from public view," Jolie Pitt's attorneys wrote.
The ratio of the width of the bars of the saltire in relation to the width of the field is specified in heraldry in relation to shield width rather than flag width.
In creating a drug-free sanctuary, the tumour also presumably remains sensitive, at least initially, to the chemotherapies it has been shielded from rather than selected to resist.
