"shield work" is a valid phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a type of labor or effort that is intended to defend or protect something. For example, "Don't forget to do your shield work for the upcoming election."
Both producers are hopeful that the focus on people without powers in a world full of "extraordinary things" is what will make Agents Of SHIELD work.
Samuel L Jackson's Nick Fury appears in almost all of these films, yet we know little about him outside his Shield work.
This paper describes the overalls of thermal shield work from design to installation, and reports the results of the KSTAR thermal shield during initial operation.
Has it escaped your notice that all of President Bush's major proposals (tax cuts, Arctic drilling, the missile defense shield) work to the direct financial advantage of his friends, business associates and chief campaign contributors (defense contractors, drillers and ranchers on public lands, the very rich who pay the top income and estate taxes)?
And the human shield worked.
If the human shield works, we are free to attack, and if it fails, Israel will bear the odium.
Whether the shield works or not is of secondary consideration when there is money to be made.
We have also been able to develop a version of the electrodynamic dust shield working under hard vacuum conditions that simulate the lunar environment.
It is because of all this that the Shield works not just as brilliant, brutal entertainment but as a hyper-real depiction of a wounded, deeply conflicted country and even as a metaphor for the Bush administration.
The craft entered the atmosphere at about 21,000km (13,039 miles) per hour, its heat shield worked effectively and it deployed its parachute to slow it from supersonic speeds to around 240 km (149 miles) per hour.
It was the furthest soft landing in the history of space exploration and this time at least the heat shield worked, the three parachutes opened as planned and the radio transmitters sent back the all-important signals suggesting all had gone according to plan.
