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On the one hand, there is Murdoch calling in favours from the Conservatives after his endorsement at the last election, plus the Tories 'native suspicion of over-regulation; on the other, there is the Lib Dem minister who owes nothing to Murdoch and is pretty much bomb-proof.

Vince Cable must be bold and break Murdoch's stranglehold Henry Porter 2010

The spirits are hardly raised by the idea of spending a month in London – already more heavily infested with CCTV cameras than any other city on earth – being subjected to the sort of suffocating US-defined precautions that surrounded George W Bush's three-day visit as president in 2003, which ended up costing London £4.1m even though Bush supplied his own bomb-proof limousine.

Homeland security should be foreign concept for London Olympics | Richard Williams 2011

Here they have excavated bomb-proof Barracks, and can lodge an army almost impregnably, scouring all the ditches with Cannon, and defying every thing but starvation. —

Letter 290 2009

In particular, a failure to provide bomb-proof vehicles and counter-IED support was a serious flaw that almost certainly cost British lives.

MPs condemn tactical mistakes that ruled out victory in Helmand 2011

They don't just lob little things from the roadside, they use catapults to sling rocks from behind walls – hard enough to crack the windows on bomb-proof, heavily armed vehicles, like the Husky.

Afghanistan transition day four: What did Helmand's head of police learn from Sir Paul Stephenson? 2011

On Tuesday, Max Clifford was quoted saying that Simon had called him on seeing Obama's bomb-proof Cadillac and declared: "I need one."

Cheryl Cole's loss could be the US X Factor's gain 2011

I am unenthusiastic about Sotomayor, but the country elected Obama and an almost bomb-proof democratic majority in the Senate, so Sotomayor it unfortunately probably is.

Feelings, nothing more than feelings (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Never mind bomb-proof glass – Lost in Showbiz does hope the mirrors with which Simon's home is said to be lined are shatterproof.

Cheryl Cole's loss could be the US X Factor's gain 2011

It has a crew of at least 35, three pools, bomb-proof glass and bath knobs that cost $40,000 a piece.

Pied-à-Terre Sells for $12.2 Million Josh Barbanel 2011

An armed soldier patrols outside the special bomb-proof court at Arthur Road jail where the trial of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab is being held in Mumbai, India, May 03, 2010.

The 26/11 Verdict 2010