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  • Though Gulf producers like Saudi Arabia are well-shielded from a full-blown uprising of the kind seen in Libya, "the instability in this region is likely to be a major source of lasting unease in the oil market," said Helma Croft, an oil analyst at Barclays Capital.

    Arab Unrest Stuns Markets Liam Pleven 2011

  • He got them from his hiding place, lit a single, well-shielded candle, and began to read The Book of Sun in earnest.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Digging a hole large enough to fit an entire moon colony in it would be a huge engineering challenge, but lava tubes could provide ready-made locations for a well-shielded base, making future astronauts the most technologically advanced cave-dwellers in history.

    Kaguya Discovers a Lava Tube on the Moon | Universe Today 2009

  • He sent threads into well-shielded historical accounts, hidden by some of the most famous CIs.

    Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 15.1 of 31.1 2009

  • However, if a wired headset is not well-shielded -- and most of them are not -- the wire itself acts as an antenna attracting ambient information carrying radio waves and transmitting radiation directly to your brain.

    Half the World Has a Cell Phone - Why that is a brain tumor epidemic waiting to happen 2008

  • He has been very well-shielded by the Sunni insurgency out in Al Anbar Province, it is believed.

    CNN Transcript May 2, 2006 2006

  • The house was well-shielded, and he could ask the other Watchers what he should do now.

    Watcher 3] Fire Watcher Saintcrow, Lilith 2006

  • Beneath them and well-shielded, the night elf sensed an unearthly magic—the magic of Sargeras—that permeated his flesh.

    THE SUNDERING RICHARD A. KNAAK 2005

  • Moreover, Elizabeth's own Talent made it impossible-at least for him'to detect a well-shielded spell laid on her.

    Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • "SPD is well-shielded, but scarcely invisible," Ghamel pointed out.

    Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004

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