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• v  protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
• v  hold back a thought or feeling about
• s  (used especially of machinery) protected by a shield to prevent injury

• For many people, the fact that the scandal involves gay sex makes Frank's behavior more offensive; among others, tolerance of homosexuality has shielded Frank from sharper criticism.
• By taking companies private and often loading them up with debt, Blackstone and its ilk squeeze value out of businesses while staying shielded from the impatience of the stock .
• She charged in court papers that her husband shielded $111,000 from the sale of his classic-car collection (which included a $420,000 1957 Mercedes) by requesting that the checks .

• shield
• screen
• harbor
• harbour

News & Articles

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• EU seeks to ease French fears over Hollywood in U.S. trade talks
  EU states sought to reassure France on Friday that its culture would be shielded from the might of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, urging Paris not to block a free-trade deal with the United States that ...
  June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance
• High-Temperature Inductors target automotive applications.
  Offered in 0750 and 1125 case sizes, respectively, IHTH-0750IZ-5A and IHTH-1125KZ-5A operate at up to +155°C with currents to 125 A and inductance values from 0.47–100 µH. With frequency range up to 10 MHz for some values, devices offer solution for voltage regulator modules and DC/DC converters. AEC-Q200-qualified inductors, housed in RoHS-compliant, lead-free shielded package, are suited ...
  June 13, 2013 - ThomasNet
• SEC Puts Exchanges in Sights Charging Regulatory Lapses at CBOE
  Exchange executives, long shielded from legal scrutiny in the U.S., have been put on notice that may be changing after federal regulators fined CBOE Holdings Inc. $6 million for unprecedented lapses in supervision.
  June 12, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Pope Benedict XVI in Ventura County Star
  While the overwhelming majority of clergy in America do outstanding work, "it is vitally important that the vulnerable always be shielded from those who would cause harm," Benedict said.
• Stephane Dion in Calgary Sun
  Countries that embrace the environment as a core priority will lead the global economy in the 21st century,Dion said. "Their companies will become highly profitable by selling those solutions to the world. They will be shielded from the...
• Jim Matheson in Bizjournals.com
  We have examples right now where the parent company, like Conseco, went into bankruptcy, and their industrial loan company based in Utah was shielded from all those financial problems and, quite frankly, sold at a premium,Matheson said.