human shield Definition på svenska

Examples of human shield

• One day he is present when a criminal takes a female hostage in order to use the woman as a human shield.

• Sometimes guard dogs are treated as equipment and other times required to become a human shield.

• They systematically detained the inhabitants inside one room of the house, held them hostage and used them as human shield.

• However, if enemies engage into such attacks themselves, the game continues since the attack was by the console itself, bringing a useful human shield tactic.

• They could also use the referee as a human shield, making themselves immune to all attacks.

• Relatives and neighbours gathered at the home to form a human shield, according to one source.

• But the inmates inside create a human shield by tying the hostages to the interior wall.

• That leaves aside the really disastrous scenario, which is the use of foreigners or people of their own kind as a human shield against such an attack.