shielded
IPA: ʃˈiɫdɪd
adjective
- provided with a shield
- protected from influence or danger
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Examples of "shielded" in Sentences
- Now, apparently, even discussions of the case are to be shielded from the general public.
- It was the whispers - the crosstalk of a dying station, no longer shielded from the neural network of its human occupants.
- Being outside of the beltway, and thus shielded from the standard idiocy, I have no idea what 24AheadDotCom is trying to say.
- In fact I will go further and say that all children are innocent and deserve to be protected and shielded from the horrors of war.
- Police Chiefs need to be shielded from the knee-jerk reactions of a local electorate and central government. on April 4, 2010 at 3: 40 pm PC World
- Long shielded from the realm of man, the inhabitants of Themyscira are tested when American fighter pilot Steve Trevor inexplicably crashes into their world.
- We will continue to be allowed to vote because voting maintains an air of Democracy (Greek-Demos) in a society, even if the means of counting the votes is proprietary (read DIEBOLD) and shielded from the Demos.
- The supplier incentives are to invent newer, better, more specialized (costly) services and justify each as a "necessity", while the demanders are shielded from the immediate cost effects by the very nature of the insurance (protection against financial loss) - the services and guaranteed payment umbrella propagate the false perception in demanders that health care services are free or of minimal cost.