Its complexity imposes costs on business, blunts work incentives and diverts energy from creating wealth to shielding it from tax.
In fact, some of Pdvsa's shrewd business decisions seem to have been made with an eye to shielding its gains from the government.
Simply put, they tackle just about every skin concern you can imagine, from evening out your skin tone to shielding skin from from damaging rays.
Later it would flower into a tropical garden of lies; from trivial social fibbing to finding a way out of more onerous commitments to shielding himself from the cleareyed, increasingly skeptical devotion of his wife.
A case to be heard next week tests whether the majority's constricted view of federal power extends to shielding states from lawsuits brought by their public employees under the Americans With Disabilities Act.
In addition to shielding taxpayers from having to backstop an ever-expanding financial safety net for errant bankers, we also need protection from ballooning losses at Fannie and Freddie.
When he turns from greening Mrs. Donaldson to shielding Mrs. Forbes — adoring mother of handsome, narcissistic Graham; disapproving new mother-in-law of "plainish," capable Betty — things become a bit less kinky (for a while) and rather more dicey.
Mr. Newman argued that the Cypriot shell companies, in addition to shielding the funds from Mr. Rybolovlev's wife, served to protect his riches from any effort by the Putin government to force him to pay part of the cost of the mine accident.
Workers and parents are so used to shielding that not using it is considered a major neglect.
In the evaluation, we therefore identified also all images in which important diagnostic landmarks were not visible due to shielding.
The direction of the electric field is important to shielding effect.
