As long as he was paid as a consultant, Kumar felt sufficiently sheltered from the truth.
For high executives, often sheltered from unpleasantness by solicitous subordinates, this can be a useful dash of reality.
By choosing an IRA rollover, your money remains sheltered from taxes until you begin withdrawing the money at retirement.
Or anywhere else in a continental U.S. whose citizens have come to believe they are sheltered from enemy attack.
But labour and capital were diverted into activities, such as law, construction, health and government, that are sheltered from foreign competition.
But if Dr. Linda Sarna, DNSc, has anything to do with it, Chinese women will be sheltered from the nicotine habit.
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In doing so it has been curiously sheltered from the effects of the downturn, even though the local economy is unhealthy.
The Brighton Beach area is sheltered from treacherous tides by the natural barriers of Breezy Point, in Queens, and Sandy Hook, N.
Hadiya Pendleton was attacked by a gunman who opened fire on her and friends as they sheltered from rain in a city park.
Since many businesses were sheltered from the market, and run badly, it would be hard for the new owners to do any worse.
The river flows into the broad, flat Miramichi Bay, which is sheltered from the wider Gulf of Saint Lawrence by a string of low-lying islands.
Juries should be sheltered from political or sensationalised scrutiny, they say.
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But there are so many museums here, you are bound to find something that tickles your cultural fancy that is also sheltered from the heaving masses.
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What's astounding is that biotech stocks have been largely sheltered from the news of drug safety disasters, high drug costs, and scientific roadblocks to creating new drugs.
During the formation of penitentes, the furrows deepen such that they are sufficiently sheltered from the wind for melting to occur - which helps further deepen the depressions.
Shariah banks make up a small fraction of the global banking sector, and they may have suffered less than Western counterparts by being sheltered from the subprime crisis.
On Jan. 1, 2011, the GST tax is set to return with a 55% rate that applies to trusts that are not sheltered from GST tax by a GST exemption.
The oil, which affected 1, 300 miles of rugged coast, penetrated deep into the cobble beaches, especially in the areas sheltered from the winter storms that can help clean the beaches.
Many teachers and most local education officials will treat such inquiries with suspicion, of course: in most rich countries, unlike the pupils they turn out into the world, they have been sheltered from competition since they left college.
Held in a scoop on the rover's mechanical arm, the tablespoon of pulverized gray rock offers planetary scientists their first sample from the planet's interior, where it may have been sheltered from the harsh surface chemistry and ultra-violet radiation.
Without market reforms, including more transparent pricing for consumers but also for doctors and hospitals themselves (medical equipment, drugs, hospital beds, etc. are all badly sheltered from competition, for instance) universal insurance could become far too expensive and lead to supply shortages.
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Those resources consist of a lot of rock, a lot of sunlight that could be used to generate electricity to process the rock and, at least in the dreams of many lunar scientists, some 20 billion tonnes of frozen water believed to lie at the bottoms of craters near the poles, where it is sheltered from the evaporative effects of sunlight.
Companies have unwound most of the cross-shareholdings that sheltered them from the discipline of the capital markets.
Through their livelihoods based on slash and burn agriculture, fishing and hunting, they have both shaped the local ecological system and sheltered it from destruction.
While none of the items sold by Ten Thousand Villages is a necessity, the low price point and charitable hook seems to have sheltered it from the worst of the recession.
By upholding the law, Roberts sheltered the court from liberal criticism.
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Instead of falling apart, Pittsburgh strengthened its core by becoming home to major global financial institutions such as Federated Investors, the aforementioned PNC and the regional headquarters for BNY-Mellon, a move that ultimately sheltered the city from the 2008 recession.
Crops need a sheltered environment, protected from the extreme temperatures and frightening levels of radiation found on the moon's surface, with water, carbon dioxide and light.
With very few (usually subsidized or sheltered) exceptions, everyone benefits from globalization.
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