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Example sentences for: shield

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Every time I admit that (which isn't very often), people give me the "Oh, so you're a Branch Davidian" look, like it's deeply weird to shield your children from television.
The germ ring is wide, approaching 1 mm; and the embryonic shield is broader still.
But it's just the reverse: The purpose of boxing gloves is not to cushion the head but to shield the knuckles.
The latter highlights European leaders' "serious alarm" at the shield, which could damage military and diplomatic ties across the Atlantic, and (somehow less likely) provoke an arms race with Russia and China.
But it seems to me that the spillover will always be there, and the court will always have to make the same "hard choice: sacrifice some shielding of children in order to protect grownups, or sacrifice some access by grownups in order to shield children."