The increased Iraqi production, much of it pumped by Chinese workers, has also shielded the world economy from a spike in oil prices resulting from Western sanctions on Iranian oil exports.
In a big-box-office, big-market, big-missile-shield world, it feels more pure, more street, more real to be a Cubs or Sox fan.
But you've got to give a network show credit for at least making an attempt to exist in a post-Wire, post-Shield world.
He survives the fall and awakens inside the shield world without serious injury.
The Covenant are invading the ship and Master Chief fights his way outside as the frigate crash lands on a Forerunner shield world.
Before WellPoint and Anthem came onto the scene, the Blue Cross/Blue Shield world was nonprofit and more affordable by both individuals and groups.
She determines that the entire planet is actually a "Shield World" constructed by the Forerunners to protect themselves from the firing of the Halo ringworlds, which are designed to eradicate all sentient life.
There, while fighting the shield world's defensive AI which Cortana identifies as "Prometheans", he encounters the Didact, an antagonistic Forerunner who plans on using a Forerunner artifact called The Composer to turn humanity into digital data.
The Elites ally with the humans of In Amber Clad to stop the firing of the ring, but inadvertently set all the remaining Halo rings on remote activation from a location known as the Ark, which was built as a "shield world" to protect certain species from the firing of the Halo rings, and also as a foundry to forge new rings, should one be destroyed.
It brings to mind the people of the planet Krikkit in Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guidee series, who, on penetrating a dust cloud shielding their world and witnessing the extent of the universe for the first time, immediately declare war on it, muttering that "it will have to go".
The Tevatron was buried underground, to shield the world from the radiation of its beams, but Dr. Wilson had a circular berm built over it, so that the ring would be visible.
