Foil is commonly used in household applications.

This is some aluminum foil, right? You use it in the kitchen.

The United States, moreover, remained a perfect foil for a leader with pretensions to global leadership.

Americans are behaving like a dysfunctional family by shielding sex criminals in their midst through silence.

Russian foil fencers defeated the Americans and made it through to the tournament final at the Olympic Games.

Viewed against this foil, the West with Stoker's Britain at its pinnacle emerged as the seat of universal reason.

Whereas the original concept of IP involved shielding industries from international competition, today s world requires integrating local productive capacity in global value chains.

Nicolas Cantinat, 37, and Julien Galisson 32, reacted to the gunfire like Ludovic, shielding the people around then when the bullets rang out.

Given the country s considerable efforts to mediate and quell regional conflicts, providing a haven for shielding West Africa s chief destabilizer runs counter to its national interest, and popular opposition to shielding him is growing in Nigeria. Hundreds of human rights and international justice groups from Africa and beyond have joined together in protest.

More important, China s leaders believed that by shielding the North from US pressure, it was acting in the interest of its own national security.

Few people know that I was the first to receive the news that Inna Deriglazova had won gold in foil fencing at the XXXI Olympic Games.

Protecting workers and consumers is critical, but shielding specific industries from the impact of new business models will not hold off the next wave of transformation.

A new wave of protests has spread across Macedonia, in reaction to Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov's pardon shielding government officials accused of corruption and abuses of power from prosecution.

And, as President Barack Obama has said, the Libyan people must not be deprived of full ownership of their struggle for freedom, and Qaddafi must not be given a useful foil and scapegoat.

The heavily armoured dinosaur used red and white camouflage to hide from predators, and employed a shielding technique known as counter shading, which is also used by many modern day animals.

Given all the effort that the world s emerging markets have devoted to shielding themselves from financial volatility, they have reason to ask where in the world is the upside of financial liberalization?

Rather than shielding Russia s private enterprises, he engineered a domestic liquidity freeze, which led to a sharp drop in GDP of 9.5 in the first quarter of 2009, despite Russia s huge foreign reserves.

Gas tungsten arc welding, after decades of development, was finally perfected in 1941, and gas metal arc welding followed in 1948, allowing for fast welding of non ferrous materials but requiring expensive shielding gases.

For now, though, instead of whining about high commodity prices, governments should be shielding only their very poorest citizens, and letting the price spikes serve as a wake up call for the rest of us.

The accompanying intellectual debate, inaugurated by the philosophers Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, defined the nature of European identity, above all, against the foil of the United States, but also in terms of the challenges posed by globalization.

It was to foil this agreement that the military branch of Hamas, run from Damascus, engaged in the provocation that brought a heavy handed response from Israel which in turn incited Hezbollah to further provocation, opening a second front.

The second risk stems from the globalized character of virtually every industry commonly considered a candidate for support. Whereas the original concept of IP involved shielding industries from international competition, today s world requires integrating local productive capacity in global value chains.

In December 2014 Google said it was closing its engineering headquarters in Russia in response to the data storage law, and in January 2015 Intel shut down its Russian language developers forums, shielding itself from noncompliance with Russia's controversial blogger law.

Rather than shielding Russia s private enterprises, he engineered a domestic liquidity freeze, which led to a sharp drop in GDP of 9.5 in the first quarter of 2009, despite Russia s huge foreign reserves. The pragmatic technocrats took over, but the subsequent doubling of oil prices signals that the danger for Russia s economy is over for now, so the siloviki are resuming command.