Our parents and grandparents seemed to need the protection of anarmour-platedself-deception to cope with the harsh realities of life.
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The ammonia fumes coming up from the ground attack ordinary insulation, and all electrical wiring has to bearmour-plated.
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It is a system under which the rule of the chairman is taken over by the force of thearmour-platedfist.
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Whatever happens, as long as the power and the interests of the money markets arearmour-plated, social opposition will spiral.
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I am told that any cables have to bearmour-plated.
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We are used to herarmour-platedcomplacency on issues where her ignorance is total.
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She has come out and told him what to do, and suddenly the bandwagon has becomearmour-plated.
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For example, cockpit doors are now being locked andarmour-plateddoors with reinforced locking mechanisms are being installed to all aircraft types at a cost of more than £1 million.
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The freeboard was increased to, andarmour-platedbulkheads, between thick provided additional protection to the magazines and engines.
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It is also said to be anarmour-platedfish in the documentary, whereas is more closely related to the modern lamprey.
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It is 73 m across, built between 1865 and 1880, with two floors and a basement andarmour-platedall round.
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Thearmour-platedsections were designed to include the embrasures and their shutters as well as armoured cupolas for 360 defence.
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One was, that extensive armour-plating must cause excessive rolling; and the other, that there were doubts of the stability of a ship whollyarmour-plated.
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For the protection of the driver and the front seat passenger, the windscreen and side windows were replaced with thick sheets of bulletproof glass, along witharmour-plateddoors.
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Besides their own armour, the riding elephants carried on the day of battle anarmour-plated, canopied seat, called an imari, of which the sides were some three feet high.
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