Measurements were made when the warheads were in various levels of containment and shielding.

Equally important is shielding young people from totalitarian ideas by providing them with positive experiences of democracy and cultural tolerance.

Such treatment is critical not only to easing the burden of the disease, but to shielding women from further abuse.

Designers could consider designing the internal EM shielding of certain missiles to minimise the threat posed by EMR if the outer shell of the missile is damaged.

Silence, and even collusion, is also typical of sex crimes within a family. Americans are behaving like a dysfunctional family by shielding sex criminals in their midst through silence.

The heavily armoured dinosaur used red and white camouflage to hide from predators, and employed a shielding technique known as counter shading, which is also used by many modern day animals.

9. Acknowledges that education is among the most effective initial means of ensuring protection for unaccompanied minors, especially girls, by shielding them from exploitative activities such as child labour, military recruitment or sexual exploitation and abuse

But a lack of implementation and enforcement of anti money laundering, tax transparency, and anti corruption rules is shielding the perpetrators from prosecution. This ultimately prevents developing countries from stopping the outflow of money that is bleeding them of essential resources.

Given all the effort that the world s emerging markets have devoted to shielding themselves from financial volatility, they have reason to ask where in the world is the upside of financial liberalization? That is a question all of us should consider.

The Peshawar massacre was not the first time that the world s leading state sponsor of terrorism became a terror victim. But the attack has underscored how the contradiction between battling one set of terror groups while shielding others for cross border undertakings has hobbled the Pakistani state.

Do not consider the Apostle s summons amongst you to be like your summoning one another. Allah certainly knows those of you who slip away shielding one another. Those who disobey his orders should beware lest an affliction should visit them or a painful punishment should befall them.

Do not consider the Apostle s summons amongst you to be like your summoning one another. Allah certainly knows those of you who slip away shielding one another. Those who disobey his orders should beware lest an affliction should visit them or a painful punishment should befall them.

The SCAF announced that it is forming a body of constitutional experts to craft several versions of a potential constitution. Obviously, the SCAF has its own calculations, which probably have less to do with protecting a liberal Egypt than with protecting the military s financial independence and shielding itself from accountability to civilian institutions.

Various reports suggest that China is selectively enhancing its strategic and tactical missile capabilities by developing solid fuel motors diversifying its range of warheads and increasing their accuracy deploying missiles with multiple warheads and upgrading its ballistic missile defense countermeasures, such as decoys, chaff, jamming, and thermal shielding, and possibly maneuverable reentry vehicles (MaRVs) and multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs).

Rather than shielding Russia s private enterprises, he engineered a domestic liquidity freeze, which led to a sharp drop in GDP of 9.5 in the first quarter of 2009, despite Russia s huge foreign reserves. The pragmatic technocrats took over, but the subsequent doubling of oil prices signals that the danger for Russia s economy is over for now, so the siloviki are resuming command.

When enough members of a community are vaccinated, a sort of immunity buffer is created, adding an extra layer of protection for vaccinated individuals, while shielding those who are not eligible for particular vaccines, such as infants or people with compromised immune systems individuals for whom disease mortality rates are highest. This phenomenon is called herd immunity, and it has been vital to vaccines effectiveness.

Instead of Schumpeter s creative destruction, bankers have engaged in destructive creation in order to gouge customers at every opportunity while shielding themselves behind a veil of complexity from the prying eyes of regulators (and even top management). Former US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker has argued, somewhat tongue in cheek, that the only useful financial innovation in recent years has been the ATM.

Nonetheless, China continues to regard North Korea as an important strategic asset, because it serves as a buffer state shielding China s border from American troops on the peninsula which has historically been used as an entry point by invading troops. China s ideal solution would therefore be to maintain the status quo while persuading the North to open up a path of gradual change that avoids open conflict or the regime s collapse.

China patiently bore this pattern of intermittent brinkmanship and timid reform, largely owing to its belief that the risks posed by the Kim dynasty could be controlled as long as China did not cut off the regime s lifeline of oil, food, and other necessities. More important, China s leaders believed that by shielding the North from US pressure, it was acting in the interest of its own national security.

For now, though, instead of whining about high commodity prices, governments should be shielding only their very poorest citizens, and letting the price spikes serve as a wake up call for the rest of us. The end to Western consumerism is not yet at hand, but high commodity prices are a clear warning that big adjustments will be needed as Asia and other emerging nations begin to consume a larger share of the global pie.