There was Shield Sheafson,scourge of many tribes, a wrecker of mead-benches,rampaging among foes.

VOA: special.2011.01.05

The seven-member crew controlled a robotic arm equipped with cameras and lasers to scan the surface of the heat shield.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

Mr.Obama's announcement last month that he was canceling the planned Bush-era missile shield ruffled a lot of feathers in Poland.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

But here in Warsaw, people were waiting for only one thing -an assurance that despite scrapping Bush-era plans for an antiballistic missile shield, the U.S.had not turned its back on Central Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Nicholas Lardy, an economist and senior fellow at the Washington-based Peterson Institute, says China's unwillingness to adopt derivative loans and other high-risk financial products helped to shield it from the impact of the world economic downturn.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10