What's the difference between safeguard and shield?

Safeguard


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, defends or protects; defense; protection.
  • (n.) A convoy or guard to protect a traveler or property.
  • (n.) A pass; a passport; a safe-conduct.
  • (v. t.) To guard; to protect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
  • (2) It’s an additional income but it’s also a financial safeguard.” Rosby Mthinda, who has worked with Dohse for more than a decade and now trains collectors in her role as field assistant, says the baobab trade is paying dividends for people and the environment.
  • (3) The public must have confidence that the government is doing all it can to safeguard Britain's threatened bees.
  • (4) The people who are supposed to safeguard the editorial independence of the BBC – to safeguard it from, among other things, government interference – are going to be appointed by the same government that they are supposed to be protecting the BBC from.
  • (5) "We expect LSCBs [local safeguarding children boards], LAs [local authorities] police forces and other agencies to do all they can to identify victims and abusers and we are looking at how we can improve data-sharing."
  • (6) In the last 19 years there have been no child protection rulings that have found us falling short of safeguarding the people in our care,” she said in a statement on the charity’s website.
  • (7) If society imposes a different standard of optimal care, I suggest that health care professionals will respond in one of three ways: oppose social intervention, adopt the social optimum, or take an intermediate position by accepting the social specification of optimal care but safeguarding the individual practitioner's role as an advocate for each patient and the profession's role as an advocate its view of the public good.
  • (8) To safeguard these results of discrimination tests, 50 randomized foreigners without any knowledge of German were examined under exact conditions in the same way as Germans.
  • (9) "We are already in negotiations with the government on how to develop working patterns which meet patient demand and deliver greater consultant presence at weekends, while safeguarding the need for a healthy work-life balance."
  • (10) The proposal has created additional concerns because of the weak safeguards around access to this sort of personal information already in place.
  • (11) The removal of financial penalties for trusts that overwork their doctors would see us lose our only safeguard against unsafe rotas.
  • (12) The only plausible response is an appeal regarding the likely side effects and exploitation of the system, but that is something that could be tested with controlled pilot studies, and safeguards could be put in place.
  • (13) On the back of the disclosures, President Obama ordered a White House review into data surveillance , a number of congressional reform bills have been introduced, and protections have begun to be put in place to safeguard privacy for foreign leaders and to increase scrutiny over the NSA’s mass data collection.
  • (14) To safeguard against the risk of accidental infection with etiological agents such as the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) while manipulating large numbers of blood samples in preparation for DNA probing, we determined the residual infectivity of HIV-1 after exposure to HSL components.
  • (15) For guidance in decisions on how to safeguard humans from carcinogens, it is necessary to use data on carcinogenesis in animals.
  • (16) Tory U-turn on fracking regulations will leave safeguards totally inadequate | Lisa Nandy and Kerry McCarthy Read more “Ministers had previously conceded there should be the tougher safeguards that Labour has been calling for to protect drinking water sources and sensitive parts of our countryside like national parks,” said the Labour MP.
  • (17) Safeguards for the subject's welfare and privacy must be considered during the planning of the study, recruitment of participants, conducting the interviews or examinations, maintaining the records, and analyzing and disseminating the information.
  • (18) He adds: "Based on my background in human rights law, I judged that the final proposal contained sufficient safeguards.
  • (19) It would also be a propaganda victory for Moscow, which launched a campaign to safeguard Assad’s rule last October.
  • (20) The supreme court judges had ruled that there was not "the remotest chance that the European court would hold that, because of other protections that Scots law provides for accused persons, the Scottish system could omit the safeguard of allowing legal advice prior to interviewing".

Shield


Definition:

  • (n.) A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler.
  • (n.) Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
  • (n.) Figuratively, one who protects or defends.
  • (n.) In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
  • (n.) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.
  • (n.) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
  • (n.) A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield.
  • (n.) A coin, the old French crown, or ecu, having on one side the figure of a shield.
  • (n.) To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury.
  • (n.) To ward off; to keep off or out.
  • (n.) To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 11 patients with a postoperative classification of stage D had additional external beam radiation to the pelvic and paraaortic lymph nodes with shielding of the implanted prostatic region.
  • (2) An effective gonadal shield should reduce the gonadal dose to a level low enough to preserve spermatogenesis in most patients.
  • (3) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
  • (4) Fred had to be substituted to shield him from the crowd’s disdain.
  • (5) Was the Dalkon Shield so harmful in the nulliparous woman?
  • (6) Physicians need to prescribe the lowest possible dose of hormones in these women and counsel them to shield their face from sunlight.
  • (7) Moulton said his colleagues were preparing to table an offer next week that will shield 50% of the council's staff from a pay cut.
  • (8) Adult males acclimated to an LD 14:10 photoperiod were distributed in five experimental groups: intact controls (NO), sham-pinealectomized (S), sham-pinealectomized with black plastic shielding of the pineal region, pinealectomized (PX), and pinealectomized with the operated region shielded.
  • (9) In order to evaluate long-term as well as short-term effects, blood loss was measured at postinsertion levels of 6, 12, and 18 months in 72 women wearing the Lippes loop, in 73 wearing the Dalkon shield, and in 82 with TCu 300.
  • (10) Using the outer 2 mm of the skin-fold, and shielding the rest of the hand with a lead plate, cutaneous blood flow rate could be monitored separately.
  • (11) Shielded marrow self renewal capacity, a measurement reflecting primitive hematopoietic stem cell function, remained depressed and did not recover with time.
  • (12) We believe the shield makes the patient more comfortable and decreases the likelihood of dislodgement of the adhesive.
  • (13) He lost contact with his father, a lorry driver, for several years, but says that his mother - aided by his uncle - made it her mission to shield him from the crime and disorder around them.
  • (14) The lead shield encloses only the testes, allowing its use with nearly any radiation field that does not include the testes.
  • (15) "Let us arm ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness," Malala said.
  • (16) I’m not satisfied until I collect everything' … EFL Cup Europa League International Champions Cup Community Shield Which competition was Ian Rush talking about when he said: 'This is why cup finals are so special, because anyone can beat anyone.
  • (17) Nemanja Matic, more normally such a man-mountain of a midfield shield, is diminished and was beaten too easily in the air by James Morrison for the home side’s second.
  • (18) The results indicate that collagen shields can slowly release cyclosporin A and increase the penetration time for the drug.
  • (19) Shields accepted that the Irish appeared more inclined to send up their grim fiscal situation than go out and riot.
  • (20) Some Coalition MPs raised concerns earlier this year that transparency could expose wealthy business owners to security risks, including kidnapping , and the government prepared legislation to shield private Australian companies.