Video can also act as a shield against the unknown.
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Having lots of capital is in itself a shield against competitors.
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During that investigation, Ms. Berman served as Mr. Durst's shield against reporters.
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The truth has always been and always be our shield against corruption.
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HaaS can be a shield against the endless march of hardware commoditization.
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So-called completion insurance, expensive but prudent, can shield against the latter.
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Canada was determined to keep it as a shield against arbitrary American action.
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"But that cannot be an ultimate shield against transparency, against accountability," Castro said.
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"But to have this shield against responsibility is not in best interest of justice."
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The foreign emoluments clause offers a shield against that corruption — assuming that it is enforced.
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OPEC provides a convenient political shield against criticism from consumer countries, especially the United States.
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Cybersecurity companies have benefited as organizations worldwide raise budgets to shield against rising cyber crimes.
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In other words, HaaS can be a shield against the endless march of hardware commoditization.
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The fact that the economy is strong right now is no shield against a recession.
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They can serve as a shield against the horror of what we are really discussing.
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The child, in the soldier's arms, became an unwitting shield against the mass of shrapnel.
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Trump is using them as a human shield against Megyn Kelly (and probably also Ted Cruz).
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Perhaps more importantly, it serves as a shield against attempts to regulate their wildly lucrative businesses.
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Cybersecurity companies have benefited as organizations worldwide set aside budgets to shield against rising cyber crime.
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Speaking of climate change, untouched places also happen to be humanity's biggest shield against the phenomenon.
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It'll have two fundamental effects that would guarantee that American workers have a shield against unemployment.
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Most encrypted phone lines now use software called "voice over internet protocol" to shield against spying.
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Palin serves as a particularly effective shield against Mr. Cruz, who has assiduously courted Iowa's evangelical voters.
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Your S.O. should also always be at the ready to serve as the perfect shield against overexposure.
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India is blessed with a deeply entrenched democratic system, but that is no shield against poor decisions.
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The project is seen as an important first step in developing a planetary shield against incoming asteroids.
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Cybersecurity companies have been benefiting from organizations worldwide setting aside budgets to shield against rising cyber crime.
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Cyber security companies have benefited as organizations worldwide ramp up budgets to shield against rising cyber crime.
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"An emergency savings fund works as an invisible force shield against future credit card debt," Palmer says.
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He's deploying the president as a shield against a conservative primary challenger and he's hugging Trump tightly.
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For figures like Mr. Berezovsky and Mr. Mahfouz, Britain's libel laws provided the perfect shield against scrutiny.
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They might block the approach of an attacking satellite, or serve as a shield against a laser strike.
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But it might include targeted investment spending, say, or shared unemployment insurance, to shield against deep economic downturns.
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Some function like a spiritual shield against negativity, while others ground the user and help them remain calm.
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That past has been invoked, again and again, as a shield against the rise of far-right parties.
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Having a stable, affordable market in place will help shield against more volatility next time the argument starts.
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"But I don't want it to be a shield against more comprehensive studies that need to be done."
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The egg-cup shaped valley is perfectly sized and the surrounding mountains provide a shield against radio frequency interference.
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This unique protein, dubbed Dsup, acts like a shield against x-ray radiation, preventing the DNA from snapping apart.
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Scalia was committed to the separation of powers, which he understood to be the most important shield against tyranny.
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It works wonders as a shield against police batons, and I can sit on it to rest, if necessary.
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America's top nuclear commander told lawmakers in March that U.S. forces are unable to shield against a hypersonic weapon.
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Equal Pay Act regulations, it argued, specifically say that collective bargaining agreements are not a shield against pay discrimination.
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And layers of material covering her entire head and face, a protective shield against the brutal south-Florida sun.
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These moves amount to "fraudulent conveyance," the states say, a claim that may pierce the bankruptcy shield against litigation.
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The case will determine the scope of the shield against employer retaliation provided to whistleblowers under the Dodd-Frank law.
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My race or nationality may have meant leniency and access, but they were not a shield against actual, physical violence.
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Indeed, Beijing is strongly opposed to South Korea's decision to install a missile shield against military challenges from North Korea.
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The policy doesn't say anything about allowing people to stay in such locations full time as a shield against arrest.
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Umbrellas are a feeble shield against the rain, a half-hearted gesture at the idea of cover from a storm.
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But like the Reagan-era Star Wars initiative, it will never provide a foolproof, comprehensive shield against a nuclear adversary.
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Reagan demurred, intent on continuing work on the Strategic Defense Initiative, which he viewed as a shield against all attacks.
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While putting people's minds at ease is certainly a service, it's hardly a substitute for a genuine shield against identity theft.
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The policy doesn't particularly say anything about allowing people to stay at sensitive places full time as a shield against arrest.
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For one, federal public accommodations laws don't shield against sex discrimination — only discrimination based on race, color, national origin, and religion.
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Finally, an oversight policy helps companies shield against politicians' shakedowns: a company can simply cite its policy and just say no.
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Their relationship provided Washington with a strategic foothold in Asia, and offered Manila a shield against China's assertiveness in the region.
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Scutoids are the perfect shape for fitting the cells together tightly and efficiently, and can act as a shield against infection.
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The talisman was meant to create a shield against the "bad air" and fevers that seemed to be associated with swampy terrain.
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Looking back, she says the upbeat disco rhythms and cheery synthesizers also functioned as a "shield" against some of the harder emotions.
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But Southeast Asian nations are trying to gauge how far they can still rely on Washington as a shield against Chinese assertiveness.
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It doesn't provide a legal shield against testifying in Congress when it is conducting an investigation as part of its oversight function.
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A shield against "warlike" financial pressure and "brigandish" human rights condemnations, Kim wants Seoul to subsidize Pyongyang as the world sanctions it.
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These fellow runners flanked Kipchoge in front and behind, helping him keep a steady pace and forming a human shield against wind.
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Even had its bubble roof been in place that day in Dallas it would have provided no shield against the assassin's bullets.
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It serves as a shield against the criticisms that a project of this kind must risk, given the ideological terrain it crosses.
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When Stephen Thompson slid in the knee shield against Tyron Woodley in their first fight it did nothing to stop the blows.
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The Briton's defense differed to the American's, keeping both his forearms high to provide a double-gloved shield against Prograis's incoming patter.
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A sleeping bag not only acts as your bed in the backcountry, but it's also a shield against cold and damp weather.
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The judge overseeing Purdue's bankruptcy has extended a shield against litigation to cover the Sacklers, hoping to encourage negotiations, the WSJ reports.
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Being closeted has for him enabled him to use this privacy claim as a shield against anybody looking closely at his actual behavior.
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And the Fifth Amendment cannot be used as a shield against perjury charges as a pardon, when bestowed, cannot apply to future crimes.
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On his new single, "Real Slow," he ventures the most conflicted sort of come-on, proposing intimacy as a shield against worldly troubles.
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Now, Europe wants Greece to be its "shield" against a new wave of migration -- and some Lesbos locals are taking that duty literally.
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Together with land-based air defense units on the peninsula, the ships have thrown up a practically impenetrable shield against the enemy's rockets.
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Now, as this year's shareholder meeting season begins, investors are taking aim at directors whose companies use technology as a shield against accountability.
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The court ruled that the privilege protects "military, diplomatic, or sensitive national security secrets" but is not a blanket shield against potential criminal liability.
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Using ethics rules as a shield against liability for entering an unethical contract may seem like a defense that only a lawyer could love.
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Turkey completed a previous offensive, dubbed "Euphrates Shield", against Islamic State militants and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) rebels in northwestern Syria in early 2017.
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The euro has tumbled to 22-month lows against the dollar and investors are preparing for more, buying options to shield against further downside.
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IPM is also driving the development of paper-thin films that dissolve within minutes into the vagina, creating an immediate internal shield against HIV.
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Your skin is a shield against the microscopic invaders that thrive in lakes and oceans and also take to hot tubs and swimming pools.
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In fact, one could read "The Perplexed" as an early adopter's lament for discretion as a form of defense, a shield against cancel culture.
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It might allow him to disguise his past—and help shield against Japanese society's prejudiced view of ex-yakuza members in search of redemption.
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His campaign cast him as a nationalist shield against migrants and Brussels, and his win is likely to embolden other European far-right leaders.
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A second theme is the use of political office as a shield against criminal prosecution and as a vehicle for personal and familial enrichment.
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Le Pen has made the fight for ordinary workers against "globalists" a key theme, presenting herself as their shield against financial markets and European legislators.
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Social media companies use the Act to shield against liability for the posts, videos or articles that are uploaded from individual users or third parties.
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McConnell's shield against the president first came into view when the majority leader kept the Senate in pro forma session over the August vacation break.
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Trump is right that China is indispensable to North Korea's economy and serves as its biggest shield against international efforts to end its nuclear program.
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Artists contend that the First Amendment is their surest shield against rules that municipal officials argue are necessary to prevent works that some find obtrusive.
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"Being closeted has for him enabled him to use this privacy claim as a shield against anybody looking closely at his actual behavior," he said.
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There is also a budget preclusion known as the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment now being litigated as a shield against federal prosecution of strictly compliant cannabis businesses.
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Richard Nixon, the Supreme Court unanimously held that executive privilege protects national security and military secrets but is not a general shield against potential criminal liability.
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The study's results suggested that in addition to providing sweet, delicious urine, the park-goers acted something like a human shield against predators for the goats.
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Due to excessive hedging costs, many hedge funds were forced to diversify into long-only quant strategies, which gave them little shield against the market downturn.
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The obsidian I found at the base of a volcano in Tequila, Mexico, and it supposedly helps to shield against negativity, resentment toward others, and anger.
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The Trump administration has spent the past week refusing to give an inch, wielding executive privilege as a shield against every subpoena and request from Democrats.
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"Perhaps most important to me, it means being a shield against discriminatory or otherwise unlawful action by the federal government that harms New York," Underwood said.
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It's an important step toward a type of flu shot that scientists have long sought: a shield against whatever flu strain people happen to pick up.
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Flashback: Two major acquisitions, of Instagram and WhatsApp, have given Facebook a shield against declining user growth on its classic social platform for nearly a decade.
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Trump wants Barr to serve as his sword and shield against political foes—a role that the attorney general has publicly derided but has privately fulfilled.
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A: Opponents of Social Security mischaracterize the founders' vision and then use the mischaracterization as a shield against improvements which the founders, I believe, would have applauded.
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United Utilities, National Grid and Severn Trent rose to record highs on Wednesday, as investors piled into dividend-yielding defensive stocks as a shield against volatile markets.
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And these days Hizbullah's claim to be the main shield against Israel for all Muslims is unconvincing; instead it has become the spear-tip of the Shias.
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The Spanish government's restrictive interpretation of the Constitution, which ought to be the guarantor of citizens' rights and freedoms, has turned it into a shield against dialogue.
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The Nixon court ruled that executive privilege is meant to protect "military, diplomatic or sensitive national security secrets" but not as a general shield against criminal exposure.
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And besides protecting Americans, so it goes, these policies are necessary for the United States to carry out its mission as a shield against evil in the world.
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In a security blog post, Google details how the latest version of its browser, Chrome 67, implements a feature called "Site Isolation" to shield against Meltdown and Spectre.
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Even tariffs only partially shield against these structural mega-trends, given the United States' continued import dependency both at primary metal and product level of the value chain.
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The state-of-the-art TimePix particle detector helps scientists best understand what background particles did the fogging so it's easier to shield against them in the future.
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CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL became Google, Facebook, and Twitter, companies that have for years relied on Section 230 as a legal shield against claims of publishing abusive content.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's League lawmaker Claudio Borghi said on Tuesday that market reaction to his comments on the euro shows the single currency is no shield against speculation.
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The case required the court to interpret language in the Dodd-Frank law that provides a shield against retaliation for whistle-blowers who disclose violations of securities laws.
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It showed a young man tied to the front bumper of a military jeep as it patrolled villages, apparently serving as a human shield against stone-throwing crowds.
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And this is why American universities need to do their best to shield against the spread of disinformation -- and to create spaces for serious conversations grounded in truth.
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That approach offers some shield against a false identification: If the witness chooses a filler, police understand the witness is wrong and know not to arrest that person.
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Now an adult, Luke counts to seven as if it'll help form a protective shield against everything that's haunting him on the streets of L.A. — from ghosts to heroin.
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Saudi Arabia has preferred to assemble coalitions of other producers to maximise its price leverage and for diplomatic reasons (OPEC and OPEC+ provide a useful shield against international criticism).
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Attempting to produce comedy or satire isn't a shield against all criticism, but it does operate within a different sphere -- one that usually offers some latitude to offend. 4.
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In the campaign against Sanders, Clinton has hugged Obama as a shield against criticism but also tended to accept the insurgent's basic narrative of a country beset by troubles.
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Mr. Bloomberg touted his massive spending, $100 million for congressional Democrats in 2018, as a shield against partisan attacks — and then nearly had a revealing slip of the tongue.
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Age can be used as a shield against many unpleasant tasks, but Miss Manners would have thought that being asked to be a groomsman is both flattering and enjoyable.
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I understand the impulse to award adulthood based on an intellectualized notion of moral rigor, but it is flawed to believe it is a proper shield against wrongdoing, wrong-thinking.
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" Father Scalia said he hoped the story served as "some source of consolation, if there are any lawyers present, that the Roman collar was not a shield against his criticism.
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In the past, Mr. Trump has not hesitated to attack the I.R.S. as "very unfair," but now he stands before the voters using the agency as a shield against disclosure.
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If privatization allows for a shield against constitutional liability, citizens will not be able to vindicate their rights in any contexts where they could traditionally hold states to constitutional standards.
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The legislation, Senate Bill 901, included a shield against wildfire-related liability, allowing the utilities to pass the cost of damage claims — though not regulatory or criminal penalties — to customers.
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In 2017, he gave an award to a major who had tied a young Kashmiri man to an army jeep and used him as a human shield against stone throwers.
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Once in office, he continued to use Twitter as both a sword -- against political foes and the press -- and a shield -- against historically low poll numbers and the Russian collusion investigation.
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Mr. Pfaff proposes that the federal government spend $4 billion a year on public defenders in the state and county systems, which he says might be a shield against overzealous prosecutors.
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The occasional dirt road led to the solitary farmhouse lined with old gnarled trees that looked as if they might have been planted as a shield against the howling prairie wind.
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The recording, and the repeated statements it contradicts, is a stark example of how Mr. Trump and his aides have used falsehoods as a shield against tough questions and unflattering coverage.
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Pentagon officials have accused Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, of using the military as a shield against Mr. Trump's anger over the flood of migrants heading to the United States.
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The amendment offered by Representative Tom MacArthur, Republican of New Jersey, prohibits denying coverage to people with a pre-existing condition, but, importantly, it does not shield against potentially higher costs.
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Nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants, brought into the country -- the only home many of them have ever known -- as minors, will over the coming months, or weeks, lose their shield against deportation.
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But Cloudflare's main role is protection: Its technology acts as an invisible shield against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks—hacker campaigns that disable a website by overwhelming it with fake traffic.
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He wields the importance of his work as a shield against anyone who'd ask him to do something he'd rather not, and deploys his ferocious sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) as a weapon.
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Oil prices had risen nearly 10 percent in the run-up to the strikes, as investors bulked up on assets, such as gold or U.S. Treasuries, that can shield against geopolitical risks.
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Because they didn't have time to put on their make-up, or because they don't consider themselves cute enough, and they want a shield against the intrusive eyes of their crowded world.
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It's the second rough transcript of their conversations released by the White House, which appears to want to use the boringness of this second call as a shield against accusations of wrongdoing.
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But the chairman of Xinjiang's government, Shohrat Zakir, himself an ethnic Uighur, called the camps a "humane" and lawful shield against terrorism in an interview published by China's official Xinhua news agency.
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You can place discrete Combat Max 12-Month Roach Killing Bait stations all around your home to create a virtual shield against roaches that will remain effective for up to a year.
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As the Supreme Court held in its unanimous 1974 ruling in the Richard Nixon case, executive privilege protects national security secrets but is not a generalized shield against presidential liability or accountability.
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Some of Warren's allies also believe that Sanders being in the primary actually benefits her by providing a shield against the more moderate wing of the party as well as other opponents.
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Israel's vigilance was underscored by the launch of its latest, U.S.-backed missile shield against rockets that it said were fired from within Syria but which fell short of the Golan lines.
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It was championed by social conservatives who saw it as a shield against same-sex marriages, but drew complaints from organizations like the NCAA and Salesforce, a major Indianapolis employer, and national scrutiny.
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The oil price had risen nearly 22015 percent in the run-up to the strikes, as investors bulked up on assets, such as gold or U.S. Treasuries, that can shield against geopolitical risks.
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This year, my students and I will introduce a smartphone app to measure how snail shells in hot inner cities in Europe and North America are evolving lighter colors to shield against overheating.
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But as things stand they are going to have to keep improving, dramatically, to meet federal fuel efficiency targets over the next several years, and to shield against potential volatility in oil prices.
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The central bank could shield against losses and criticism by taking significant equity stakes in risky companies, said Skanda Amarnath at Employ America, a left-leaning group that seeks to influence the Fed.
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The test is an important step toward creating a type of flu vaccine that scientists have long sought — one that can shield against whatever type of flu strain people happen to pick up.
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Soon after I was hired, Jones's Infowars-branded store — which sells emergency-survival foods, water filters, body armor and much more — introduced an iodine supplement, initially marketed as a "shield" against nuclear fallout.
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At the very least, the Court's Republican majority would not have had much trouble ruling against Rhines because existing doctrine does not shield against all forms of anti-LGBTQ discrimination by the government.
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"The scheme will be a protection shield against instances of farmer suicides because of crop failures or damage because of nature," Home Minister Rajnath Singh said last January after the plan was approved.
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Degrees appear to be a partial shield against robots: more than half of jobs that don't require a bachelor's degree are at risk of automation, compared with just a quarter of jobs that do.
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Everyone seems to take notes in computer text programs now, but a pen and a pad of note paper were my sword and shield against the mundane, and I wielded them like a warrior.
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President Trump is wielding the U.S. oil production boom and low gasoline prices as a shield against criticism over his relationship with Russia as Robert Mueller continues his probe and Democrats ramp up their inquiries.
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Malvo is the Court's first Eighth Amendment case since Bucklew, so it could offer a window into just how deeply the Court's Republican majority plans to cut into the shield against bizarre and excessive punishments.
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LONDON, July 6 (Reuters) - Shares in United Utilities , National Grid and Severn Trent rose to record highs on Wednesday, as investors continued to pile into dividend-yielding defensive stocks as a shield against volatile markets.
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Those can get stale, so this time the helicopter lands so close to them on the parking lot/helipad that they must use their flimsy champagne table as a shield against the ferocious manufactured wind.
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People in East Asian countries, including some immigrants in the US, have a predilection for wearing face masks in public to shield against smog (or, more generally, germs), even when they aren't necessarily sick. ALSO.
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That makes the issue not just biographically significant to Warren, but a thematically useful wedge to separate the national frontrunner from the popular former president whose name he often wields as a shield against criticism.
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Avobenzone, the primary ingredient used to shield against UVA rays in non-mineral sunscreens, is capped at 153 percent, which means your SPF 215 sunscreen has the same amount of UVA protection as an SPF 230.
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To this day, Trump himself uses Obama's "keep your plan" promise as a kind of shield against criticism for seeking to repeal the law, though he literally made the same promise about Trumpcare word for word.
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Initially, much of their action was internal, such as finding alternative sources of commodity groups to hedge against volatility in agricultural yields, or locking in renewable energy purchase agreements to shield against volatility in energy markets.
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Mr. Ekstrom is chairman of Nasdaq Clearing, an outpost of the American stock exchange company in Stockholm, which processes futures trading and acts, in part, as a shield against contagious losses in the global financial system.
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Jake's mother, Kathy (Jennifer Ehle), who is a bit more decisive, is a therapist, and her smiling demeanor acts as a shield against the unspoken tensions hovering in the air whenever she and her husband are together.
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The release of a secret recording Tuesday night by Michael Cohen, Mr. Trump's former lawyer and fixer, has unraveled some of the false statements the president has used as a shield against tough questions and embarrassing stories.
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Meanwhile, as China prepares for the start of the Communist Party congress on Wednesday, our correspondents looked at how the "Great Firewall" — China's harsh controls on the internet — has actually created a powerful shield against fake news.
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In 2015, she spoke to Norma Iglesias-Prieto, a professor in the department of Chicano and Chicana Studies at San Diego State University, whose initial support of the novel Cummins has used like a shield against criticism.
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As Hewitt says, the white boots were yet to make a huge splash in the market, but when Ball wore them (with his name printed on the side) for the Charity Shield against Chelsea, that changed very quickly.
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We were certain we could weather any attack on our faith or ethnicity because the US Constitution -- which we had heard so much about in Iran -- would be our shield against the fears and prejudice of our neighbors.
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By banding together to address a planetary emergency, the 197 signatory nations had officially ended production and use of chemicals responsible for depleting the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere, an essential shield against the sun's ultraviolet radiation.
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Nor can HHS's actions be considered alone; they are the latest steps in a movement intended to transform religious liberty from a shield against government intrusion into a sword for discrimination against women and others seeking health care.
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"The Department should not be able to simply invoke the same reasons for redacting the report from public view as a shield against disclosure to a coequal branch of government," Democrats wrote in a letter to Barr Monday.
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With Trump as a shield against conservative radio, the party base and hard-right immigration groups, conservatives will have a rationale to back a bill that some have expressed concerns would not go far enough to secure the border.
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Having a federal government presence on other worlds will provide not only a civilizing influence that includes protecting scientists' interests as well as commercial players, it could provide a shield against encroachment by possibly hostile countries, such as China.
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In the boys' letters and emails to their parents, elegantly threaded through the book, you can hear the voice of a family holding tight to one another and frantically expressing love as a shield against an onslaught of pain.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid defended NATO on Tuesday after French President Emmanuel Macron branded it "brain dead", saying Estonia felt safe in a military alliance that has been fortifying its eastern flank as a shield against Russia.
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In 2003, during the Palestinian uprising, Avnery traveled with other Israeli activists to Arafat's headquarters in the occupied West Bank, to act as a human shield against what they said were Israeli plans to assassinate Arafat after a Palestinian suicide bombing.
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Facing an ICC arrest warrant over the death of an estimated 300,000 people in Darfur, Bashir has focused on his survival, holding on to power as a shield against a trial similar to that of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Raytheon Co and Lockheed Martin Corp are working with Japanese partners on rival projects to develop new radars that will enhance Japan's shield against any North Korean missile strike, government and defense industry sources in Tokyo told Reuters.
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Because current North Korean strategy absolutely requires nuclear weapons to extort China and South Korea for revenue, to create a defensive shield against the hostile Americans, and to provoke South Korea into giving up and agreeing to unification on Kim's terms.
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Zhang Ping, a scholar of trade law at Peking University in Beijing, said the West had long used intellectual property laws as a "spear and shield" against Chinese companies, hurting their profits at home and blocking access to foreign markets.
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Her plan would also block individuals from using bankruptcy as a shield against civil rights claims, such as debts arising from police brutality, while eliminating some of the protections for local government fines, which disproportionately affect black and low-income communities.
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In October, the department filed misdemeanor charges of noncompliance in Criminal Court in Manhattan against the owners of the seven buildings with sidewalk sheds older than a decade, which includes those used for construction and to shield against unsafe facades.
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What's more, senior workers are in a weakened position when it comes to a crucial workplace protection based on a recent Supreme Court decision and the legal safeguards that shield against wrongful termination or demotion, like claims covered under the Civil Rights Act.
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When Mr. Trump's defenders use the fact that the president has employed and encouraged a handful of women — to, as we now know, also serve as his uncompensated therapists — as a shield against accusations of sexism, they are deploying a similarly mendacious argument.
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Read more: 9 common 'healthy' choices that are actually sabotaging your diet New evidence suggests that a diet with key benefits for your body and brain may also shield against aging 10 warning signs that you may need to change your diet
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To the contrary, it is the best recruiting tool the military has to ensure young men and women find value in serving as the shield against America's enemies, and they volunteer to do so with relatively little upfront collateral from the government.
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Envoys hope two major policies - on space as a new frontier in defence and on China - will show that NATO is not a Cold War relic but a shield against threats including Russia's decision to develop missiles capable of hitting Europe at short notice.
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"For a long time there was a concerted effort made on behalf of businesses to get the Supreme Court to allow the of use arbitration clauses as a shield against class action lawsuits," explains David Horton, a leading arbitration expert at the University of California, Davis Law School.
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He's long been a beloved figure in the Democratic Party — a legacy enhanced by two terms as vice president under Barack Obama, whom Biden has been using with increasing frequency as some sort of human shield against any suggestion that he represents an old and ineffective style of politics.
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Mr. Buttigieg, a former naval intelligence officer, has often used his veteran status as a shield against criticism of his relative lack of experience, as an explanation for his domestic policy positions and as evidence he would not be nervous in a general election contest against Mr. Trump.
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Both Republicans and Democrats on the panel have previously erupted at Bannon for citing executive privilege as a shield against questions about his time on the Trump transition team, given that Trump had not yet taken office and assumed the presidential duties that privilege is widely considered to cover.
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With hostility to Ankara growing in Congress over disputes ranging from the fate of Christian pastor Andrew Brunson, Iran sanctions and Turkey's plans to buy a Russian missile defense system, Turkish officials have seen Trump as a possible shield against the worst fallout from the collapse in ties.
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In light of the breakdown in the peace process in the troubled southern island of Mindanao, with ISIS-sympathizers such as Abu Sayyaf stepping up their terror operations and recently beheading a Canadian hostage, Duterte is in a particularly strong position to portray himself as a shield against further instability in the country.
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Bill Clinton's sex life is perhaps somewhat useful as a shield against attacks on Trump's own misogyny, but it's also old news: What Trump really needs is something that doesn't feel recycled from the 1990s — like, say, a Juanita Broaddrick-style allegation from Clinton's post-presidential jet-setting that breaks in early October.
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So they have now effectively adopted what we call "media access theory": the idea that was developed in 1960s by the far left, that the First Amendment is not a shield against government, but a sword by which politicians get to decide whether media is treating them fairly and then medal accordingly.
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Fingertips white, I clutched the massive binder containing my every tax return since 2015, a 60-page citizenship application, original Brazilian birth certificate, both my Swiss and Brazilian passports (my mother is Brazilian and my father is Swiss), and American green card tightly to my chest, like it was a shield against whatever came next.
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"It is vital that our nation's election systems have the strongest possible shield against malicious hackers, especially given the resources that hostile foreign powers could deploy to undermine confidence in our democracy," a coalition of groups led by the nonprofit watchdog Project on Government Oversight wrote in a letter to Attorney General William P. Barr.
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But these were really three developments in three distinct trends: North Korea's 2017 missile test bonanza, the lack of a reliable American defensive shield against ICBMs targeting the United States, and South Korea's apprehension about hosting the THAAD system—something that turns local towns into potential North Korean targets, but may have no tangible benefit for the South Korean people.
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Editorial Members of India's armed forces reached a new low in the long history of alleged human rights abuses in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir when they beat and then tied a 24-year-old shawl weaver named Farooq Ahmad Dar to the front of a jeep on April 9, using him as a human shield against stone-throwing crowds.
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The drafters of our Fifth Amendment, which guarantees a defendant the right to grand jury consideration of his or her case before he or she can be brought to trial in a federal court, would be turning over in their graves if they knew how this shield against over-zealous prosecutors has been turned into a sword for the use of prosecutors against criminal defendants.
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The online reaction to criticism of the film has been filled with blind spots, too, with people unfairly painting the discussion as a call for cultural purity, insisting that "actual Asians" aren't bothered by any of this, and brandishing cowriter Kunichi Nomura — whom Anderson brought on to advise on cultural specifics as well as provide the voice of his villain — as some kind of human shield against this entire topic.
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") The graphic artist Nate Powell, who studies how aesthetic styles normalize "the language of force," connects the tactical beard to the rise of Punisher imagery among conservative cops and their backers: "Back in the States, these aesthetic choices have trickled downstream through law enforcement and private security (often as post-active duty careers) into civilian life—doubling as an outward badge of honor for a historically unpopular war, a shield against shame and trauma.
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