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bul´let-proof`


a.1.Capable of resisting the force of a bullet; resistant to penetration by a bullet; armored; as, a bulletproof vest; a bulletproof window.
2.designed so as to be resistant to abuse or misuse and incapable of malfunction under normal use; as, a bulletproof computer program.
3.so well thought out as to be resistant to criticism or certain to succeed; as, a bulletproof plan.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Some of their braves, also, who have had numerous hairbreadth 'scapes, like the old Nez Perce chief in the battle of Pierre's Hole, are believed to wear a charmed life, and to be bullet-proof. Of these gifted beings marvelous anecdotes are related, which are most potently believed by their fellow savages, and sometimes almost credited by the white hunters.
They say the alligator, the rhinoceros, though enclosed in bullet-proof mail, have each a spot where they are vulnerable; and fierce, reckless, unbelieving reprobates, have commonly this point in superstitious dread.
To make this excellent breakfast dish, proceed as follows: Take a sufficiency of water and a sufficiency of flour, and construct a bullet-proof dough.
So the Grand Turk, Asia, and Africa have recourse to magic, and they send a demon against us, named the Mahdi, who it was thought had come down from heaven on a white charger which, like its master was bullet-proof, and the pair of them lived on the air of that part of the world.
RIYADH: Saleh Alnahdi trusted his products to an entirely new level when he let a man shoot him in the stomach with a handgun at point-blank range.C C He felt that he had to do it in order for clients to trust the what he was about to introduce to the Saudi market -- bullet-proof thobes and abayas.C C Standing rather tensely at the Caballero factory in Columbia, Alnahdi took what could have been his final breath, held it, and was shot at a distant that would surely have killed him.C C "I was taking a risk," Alnahdi, CEO of Alnahdi United Defense, told Arab News last week.
ISLAMABAD -- The National Accountability Bureau executive board on Monday approved to turn the inquiries pertaining to Liquefied National Gas (LNG) and bullet-proof cars against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Nawaz Sharif into a full investigation.
President Rodrigo Duterte again spoke behind a thick, bullet-proof glass panel during the campaign rally of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental on Thursday night.
The vehicles up for the auction included 19 bullet-proof cars.
Apart from these, four bullet-proof Land Cruiser vehicles of 2015 model are also up for auction.
The reproductions will have revolving number plates, bullet-proof shields and replica tyre shredders.
"Maswerte po 'yong policeman natin na poseur-buyer dahil nakasuot siya ng bullet-proof vest na nakatago sa T-shirt kaya 'yon lang ang nabutas ng barilin siya ng suspect (Our policeman who acted as poseur-buyer was fortunate because he wore a bullet-proof vest concealed under his shirt when he was shot by the suspect), "Zafra said