American supporters of the shield worry that without it rogue states will be able to achieve "access denial", which is jargon for limiting America's ability to send its troops wherever it thinks its national interests require them.
The Trump administration will delay any moves to reform the nation's biofuel policy for about three months, according to three sources briefed on the matter - a decision one of the sources said was meant to shield farmers worried about a potential trade war with China.
Before her father's sudden death when she was 25, Sarah Margaret (as she was formally named and known to her family) was largely shielded from financial worries.
This put him at the forefront of technology but shielded him from worrying about entrepreneurial concerns -- such as getting customers and raising capital.
It would have been natural for my mother to try to shield me from worry or complication or shut me out from examining her income and other data that many parents might deem to be none of my business.
They were too busy brandishing their trompe l'oeil missile shield to worry about shielding real people in real trouble.
In the US, a robust economy had so far largely shielded stock markets from some of those worries.
Shielded by his parents from the hardships and worry of exile, Winberg at first recalls only his sense of adventure: "I don't remember being scared.
The only notably gay element in its futuristic lobby is the silhouette of a man's torso imprinted on a glass barrier.Others worry that homosexual tourists are no better shielded from the world financial crisis than anyone else.
Some early worries about microwaves, like possible damage to pacemakers, have largely been resolved, the agency says; modern pacemakers are shielded against electrical interference.
But used widely, such connections could be problematic.Air-safety authorities worry that gadgets that emit electromagnetic radiation can, in theory, induce electric currents in any other piece of electronic equipment nearby that's poorly shielded or inadequately maintained.In truth, all the electronic gear in a modern aircraft is so heavily shielded that such interference is frankly impossible.
