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Example sentences for: shield

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Now, others came under the shield: former presidents (1961), vice presidents and vice presidents-elect (1962), former presidents' spouses and families (1965), presidential and vice presidential candidates (1968), visiting foreign heads of state (1971), vice presidents' families (1974), foreign diplomatic missions (1975), and spouses of foreign heads of state (1986).
May the government, in its quest to shield children, restrict the online choices of grownups?
The Ibicencos fortified the bulwarks and built additional towers and fortresses throughout to help shield themselves against enemy incursions.
These data confirm the deleterious effects of extraterrestrial solar UV radiation but also confirm that thin layers of clay, rock, or meteorite can successfully shield spores from UV damage if they are in direct contact with the spores.
Other nations tended to muffle or modulate their occasional annoyance with the country that was their shield against the Soviet threat.