Sentence examples for shields against from inspiring English sources

Again, Hemingway managed to crush Shields against the ropes.

Women sat in separate bleachers, many under umbrellas as shields against the sunny heat.

Fighting erupted, with the police using truncheons and shields against the protesters.

The upper floors were deserted, serving only as shields against bombardment.

The jihadists are said to be using the Turks as human shields against possible Western military intervention in Iraq.

It shields against injury, against foreign matter and disease organisms, and against potentially harmful rays of the Sun.

In the end they used their own people as human shields against the advancing Sri Lankan army.

Corrie was one of a group of around eight international activists acting as human shields against the demolitions.

Carrying half-dead garments in her arms or holding them up like shields against time, Ms. Swinton summoned a rare connection with history.

It's an ideal terrain for urban guerrilla: Tanks cannot enter the narrow passages, and the thick stone walls act as shields against artillery and air strikes.

When I spoke those languages I assumed new personae; they were shields against an American culture I still could not quite absorb.