Armor Plate

It is a very thin veneer; but so wonderfully is man constituted that he squirms on his bit of achievement and believes he is garbed in armor-plate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fernandez has installed 2,000 security cameras, quadrupled the police force, set up neighborhood watches and built his own intelligence service in a $65 million bid to "armor-plate" the district. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Humor is part of the armor-plate with which to resist what is already farcical enough. ❋ Hitchens, Christopher (2007)

Anton was going to make the presentation on Thursday, and we needed to armor-plate the result, which was sure to elicit lots of tough questions. ❋ John (2007)

The M113 -- essentially a box on top of its tracked chassis -- is easier to armor-plate than the humvee and can be done at one-fifth the cost... ❋ Unknown (2005)

To armor-plate the nation's security they increasingly look to the most powerful technology available: retina, iris, and fingerprint scanners; "smart" driver's licenses and visas that incorporate anti-counterfeiting chips; digital surveillance of public places with face-recognition software; huge centralized databases that use data-mining routines to sniff out hidden terrorists. ❋ Unknown (2002)

What armor-plate could ever resist a projectile of 30,000 pounds weight? ❋ Unknown (2003)

By last accounts, however, it would seem that the armor-plate would in the end have to give way to the shot; nevertheless, there were competent judges who had their doubts on the point. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Matters were at this stage, and victory seemed to rest with the shot, when the war came to an end on the very day when Nicholl had completed a new armor-plate of wrought steel. ❋ Unknown (2003)

You say, ` For the last 100 years, leftist '-- poli -- ` historians have been regularly dredging up the armor-plate scandal as an example of capitalist greed at its worst. ❋ Unknown (2001)