It's also partly because health care is relatively shielded from international competition, since many medical services are difficult to offshore.
In addition it has relatively high non-UK exposure (around 50% of Primark and around 57% of group sales) meaning it is relatively shielded from cost and currency pressures in the UK.
European equities are relatively shielded from major moves in the commodities market but traders don't want to be short going into the ECB's meeting on Thursday, for fear of yet another QE clue being dropped from Mario Draghi.
Taylor said the UK had been relatively shielded from the effects of the crisis so far, adding that "those least responsible for contributing to climate change are already suffering the worst effects".
They have been relatively shielded from the financial panic, and the government is trying to boost their consumption with a 13% rebate on many home appliances, such as air conditioners, refrigerators and televisions.
By comparing the 1H and 13C NMR spectral data of 6 with those of 25, the C-12 carbon signal was significantly deshielded, while the C-11 and C-13 carbon signals were relatively shielded, suggesting that the methoxy was attached to C-12.
"I think Malaysia tends to be a country that has been relatively shielded from national calamities and big disasters.
Namely, the gradual recruitment of deeper signal sources (having more active membrane but which are relatively shielded at first), may paradoxically increase the functional signal, without causing a proportional increase in resting light intensity.
Yet, even though it seemed like an obvious target, the Red Cross building was relatively lightly protected, shielded only by a single row of oil drums filled with sand, strung together by barbed wire.
As compared with the ground loss due to single-circular Earth-Pressure-Balance (EPB) shield tunneling in cohesive soils, the range of ground loss due to DOT shield tunneling was relatively narrow, and the peak ground loss value was significantly less.
