The biggest state-owned firms are often big only because they are shielded from competition.
Had this tactic succeeded, it would only have shielded Democrats from owning their gun failure.
He shielded Davis Oil from losses by having investors assume risk for his wells.
But city Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said the products themselves aren't similarly shielded by the Constitution.
Many of these sub-sectors are shielded from takeover or allowed to compete on preferential terms.
Because PCs and laptops are shielded by their case and so are aircraft computers and wiring.
These sectors are shielded more from financial downturns, depending less on discretionary consumer income.
Audiences, he said, should not be shielded from the historical context even the historical mistakes of the works.
John Lennon, not a man usually offended, shielded his wife and walked out in disgust.
The business has too many duffers, he says, who have been shielded from professionalism.
Its premium and double-shielded connector and cord also offers durability and minimizes signal loss.
The aircraft cabin is shielded to prevent handsets from making contact with base-stations on the ground.
This is because, as a member, you are largely shielded from any fall in the investments underpinning the scheme.
Slovenia and Slovakia were shielded from currency speculators by being in the euro area.
Sadly none of this has shielded the region from the world recession (see article).
Except when a bomb explodes in Colombo, southerners are shielded by distance and by censorship.
Other stations will be shielded by large, so-called trap bags made of textile strengthened with recycled plastic.
Or the massive corn ethanol infrastructure resting on a mountain of subsidies temporarily shielded by protective tariffs?
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Keep seized phones in metal-plated Faraday bags or other radio-frequency-shielded container until their data can be copied.
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And plastic surgery is one of the only fields of medicine that is shielded from insurance companies.
That way, the browser kernel which interacts directly with the operating system is shielded from anything questionable lurking outside.
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It will feature a 10-car garage shielded by a waterfall, a grotto-like swimming pool and a botanical garden.
Textile companies in America, whose lack of competitiveness has long been shielded behind protectionist measures, will suffer somewhat.
You can only hope that your partner will keep you shielded from low-hanging branches or poison oak batches.
The firm's focus on emerging markets, whose financial fortunes are most shielded from the U.S., is also growing.
They also have to be shielded from the attentions of other elementary particles that might confuse the signal.
Vital policies, such as economic reform and efforts to counter corruption, will perhaps be shielded from parliamentary whim.
From those figures, scientists calculated a spacefarer's radiation exposure for a quicker six-month voyage in a similarly shielded spacecraft.
In Denver, celebrities who in past Presidential campaigns would have had major speaking roles were shielded from public view.
Foreigners are now allowed to invest in long-shielded sectors of the Japanese economy, like brokerages, banks and insurance companies.
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