Sentences with phrase «as a human shield against»

Since the beginning of last week, ISIS has taken thousands of people hostage from the outskirts of Mosul into the main parts of the city, and United Nations officials fear that the plan is «to use them as human shields against the Iraqi forces advance on Mosul.»

«Once, it seemed everyone agreed that the State should provide decent public services and social security as a human shield against boom - bust capitalism.

A man grabs his girlfriend and uses her as a human shield against gunfire, which does not hit anyone.

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The United Nations reports that ISIS killed at least 232 people on Wednesday alone, in addition to using thousands of people as human shields to defend themselves against the Iraqi militia.

Ripping a page from the Star Trek script, specialized cells of the barrier that lines the inside of the intestines and airways of humans have invoked a biological version of Captain Kirk's famous command «shields up» as a first defense against invading microbes.

«It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that I would be talking about how to fight back against the attacks on public education in Puerto Rico and that educators want to act as a human shield to protect public schools and their students just as they've done in West Virginia and Oklahoma,» Weingarten told the Washington Free Beacon.