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As the spacecraft descended, it sent back signals when critical events occurred: heat shield separation, parachute deployment, retro-rocket firing.
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When they were silent in the pause at a traffic light, her father touched the open shield of his palm to the back of her head, the unobtrusive caress he had offered when driving her to boarding school.
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Mr Sarkozy had supported the shield, partly to help lure tax exiles back home.
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After comfortably beating Morgan's Rovers 32-10 in their first home game of the season back in February, Wigan clinched the League Leaders' Shield when they won 38-18 at Craven Park on the penultimate weekend of the season.
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Back in 2009, after the House passed a media shield bill, the action shifted to the Senate, leading to a compromise bill that would protect reporters' sources, but grant the government authority to override that in certain national security cases.
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Growing support in the United States for anti-missile defences was highlighted by the recent vote of a Senate committee to back a bill that would mandate the building of a national missile shield for the United States as soon as technically possible.
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It could be some time before a hearing is arranged as both clubs are on pre-season tours with United back to take on Portsmouth in the Premier League curtain-raiser, the Community Shield, on 10 August.
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From its big French curve front fenders and shield-like radiator grill to its bomb-shaped headlights to its long back deck and tail lights on graceful stalks, in its humble way the '36 is as much a work of art as the Cord 810 or the Duesenberg SJ.
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