How To Use Guard In A Sentence

The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
On Tuesday, guard Jaymes Brooks was discussing how Smith has become the player who "fusses at us a lot, tries to get our spirits up, tries to tell us not to get our heads down in certain situations" when he also alluded to a speech Smith gave at halftime of that East Carolina game. Did Andre Smith save the Hokies' season?
At least five people were killed when an overcrowded migrant boat capsized last month which was dramatically caught on camera by Italian coastguards. The Sun
There was no mail coach -- no driver in scarlet -- no mail guard -- no passengers, but only a ramshackle iron mail cart -- a "postboy" as driver and carrying no arms. The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time

· “Adult family member” is defined as “a person over 21 years of age who is the parent, grandparent, step-parent living in the household, or legal guardian” of the pregnant teen. Archive 2009-07-01
Connection is here something both yearned for and guarded against. The Times Literary Supplement
So the girl was out of bondage, but Cadwaladr, sick with humiliation and rage, must come under guard to be handed over for a price to the brother who discarded and misprized him. His Disposition
It is the final guard against nationalistic states that sought the betterment of their people first and foremost and not that of some hypothetical global village or for the internationalistic elite. Pravda blames trotskyites for u.s. empire
Thirty unarmed INS agents accompanied the flight, guarding the handcuffed deportees in shifts, standing in aircraft's aisles at every fifth row.
The soldier bargained that he should not have to go on guard on Sundays.
A guard with a motorcycle and a shotgun could move through fields at night and work with farmers to scare elephants and hippos.
Guardian International correspondent Jonathan Steele called Bush's and Blair's denial of the horrors attending the Iraq civil war "Panglossian" - referring to the ever optimistic Dr. Pangloss of Voltaire's novel Candide who, at every disaster, proclaims that ours is the best of all possible worlds. Surge to Purge: The 80% Solution in Iraq
Yeah, it's August, but someone's really phoning it in at the Guardian.
Then the court will decide who must take care of minor children unless the parents have appointed a guardian.
During the night two young partisans sat on guard at the bedroom door listening to murmured conversation. Whicker's War
Somewhere nearby a guard dog barked and then another one. Bomber
At that time the Byzantine Emperor employed Vikings in the elite Varangian Guard. The Last Viking Warrior | Heretical Ideas Magazine
Nemours showed him at once what use to make of the army under his orders, and having enfiladed his National Guard battalions, and placed his artillery in echelons, he formed his cavalry into hollow squares on the right and left of his line, flinging out a cloud of howitzers to fall back upon the main column. Burlesques
Amid fireworks, a color guard and torrents of cheers, 62 former Redskins were introduced on Sunday night at FedEx Field, from Carl Kammerer, who played in 1963, to Darnerien McCants, who retired in 2004. Shanahan, McNabb are helping the Redskins recapture their past
Above all, lots of protection, such as having a personal posse of bodyguards. Times, Sunday Times
Thomas writes colorfully of blackguards and mistresses, salty sea dogs and young midshipmen, bloody quarterdecks and Parisian salons.
Tribal traditions and a male-dominated reading of Islam have produced a deeply rooted ideology of women as temptresses, who must be kept under control to avoid "fitna" or social strife, thereby safeguarding the "peace of Islam. Ida Lichter, M.D.: Afghan Women's Movements Deserve More From the West
To order visit guardianbooks. co.uk or in the UK call 0845 606 4232. UEA's delayed response to climate emails caused by shock, says professor
If you slacked you were given a poke from a guard with his Bayonet. Eric Batty
Roughly a third of the way up the fence is a guard rail - again in orange - which provides a sighting line for the jockeys. Times, Sunday Times
Brown, OTOH, is attractive and charming, with a compelling tie to the military – MASS National Guard Units (like everywhere) have been heavly involved in the wars over the last 8 years, and stories about them abound on local news. Matthew Yglesias » The Limits of Scott Brown
Unless a member of the Vanguard or the Scarlet Scholars (both groups paying attention to what most consider obscure and nigh-useless knowledge), even most paranormal agents active today have only heard of the Bleak Baron Frederick or his granduncle Wolfgang and their works on fighting monsters. The Codex Continual » The Von Baurs
Point guard DiJuan Harris led the conference in assists with 4.5 a game, and guard Derrio Harris, a junior college transfer, had a 13.1 scoring average. Atlantic 10 Conference
He had been assigned to stand guard beside one of the caged men as they drove in a column through a baying mob. Times, Sunday Times
I took a moment to read what his mind is thinking, but he quickly guarded his thoughts.
A guard had dropped another large execution device they were carrying up the stairs to the raised wooden platform.
He produced a knife with a six-inch blade which he waved at the guard, forcing him to back off.
Huge crowds are expected to file past the coffin, which will be guarded by a contingent of Gentlemen at Arms and Yeoman of the Guard.
Sick prisoners in the camp were 'cared for', in inverted commas, by guards, not nurses.
The guard left before his replacement came.
The guards and porters walked about, the bell was rung, the signal was given ad the train started off.
This is a legacy of suffering that we have to be on guard against.
The sentry guard dived into his foxhole and closely observed the stranger towards him.
Simon Jenkins, a columnist with the UK's Guardian recently called Zuma a rapist and a racketeer in perhaps one of the most acerbic pieces yet the Guardian has published on Zuma.
Since Vanguard stopped flying, airfares have risen in Kansas City and service has diminished.
When one was obtained it had to be smuggled past the camp guards, then passed to one of our number who was able to translate the news.
There's a terrible scene where he is chained to a whipping post and flogged with sadistic pleasure by brutish Roman guards.
That suture is an unexpected and original way of safeguarding the novel's integrity.
The guard ushered me into the office of a burly fiftysomething man in a police uniform. Times, Sunday Times
If Amy weren't under guard, she'd be working on overriding the overrides and getting control back.
There must be a solid hierarchy and system of protection safeguarded by organized crime syndicates or mafia.
Crucially, at the heart of this construct is the Commission, comprised of appointed technocrats ruling as benign Platonic guardians, protecting the interests of all the peoples of Europe. Democracy or stability?
We were stopped by two hulking security guards.
Siu said the maximum actual use instead of the maximum capacity of swimming pools was used to decide the number of lifeguards deployed.
Eight people were wounded in a clash with border guards.
This was to be my first real public duty as a guardsman and butterflies fluttered in my stomach.
Many of the events are informal and unscripted, and can afford glimpses of public figures talking unguardedly about their ideas, their life, and their convictions. The Story Behind the Story
As the two little craft pulled through the Gap, Guardian received a salute of raised paddles from the canoe, the tender lifting its oars on the gunwales for one stroke before resuming its rhythm.
Jen recalls Barbra's 'polite kiss' (From Sutton Guardian) Your Local Guardian | Sutton
The discipline of the guards is not very good. Sentry duty wearies them, for they must also serve as torturers, interrogators and perform the duties of kidnappers.
Yet, there appeared to be a crowd forming around the sentry on guard there.
The guard growled out a warning,threatening the prisoners with his gun.
He redialed the number of the bodyguard and waited for him to pick up.
Guards Danny Ainge and Dennis Johnson, deadeye marksmen in Los Angeles, came home to Beantown and took up masonry. One Season
Due for cuts of up to a third but flood protection safeguarded. The Sun
In unguarded moments he says he is just curious. Times, Sunday Times
Stunned gallery visitors watched as guards grabbed him until cops arrived to arrest him. The Sun
If the car was parked in her garage, there were the two so-called bodyguards inside the house, plus the children, plus the so-called au pair! Deadly Intent
This is an attempt to intimidate and blackguard the prison officers and this is an attempt that will fail.
Two tugs from Clyde coastguards tried unsuccessfully to pull the vessel clear and it was freed the next day on the early morning tide.
Likewise, a car bomb in Dura, Baghdad, killed 9 national guardsmen and wounded 20.
There are also scenes of prisoners attacking guards, shanking each other, and discussing their murders, assaults, and mutilations in graphic terms.
One must guard against the misinterpretation of this term impoverishment as compared with the state of affairs which would have developed in the absence of credit expansion and the boom. Is Something Better Than Nothing?
It is the keenest spur to exertion, and surest of all guards against improbity. Times, Sunday Times
Wear a warm hat to guard against heat loss from your head and if your hands are susceptible to the cold then wear some thin gloves.
Now is the time to guard against destructive clothes moths. Times, Sunday Times
His demeanor, though somewhat guarded, is more small-town high school football star than newly minted teen heartthrob. TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 18TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
Therefore is it that Pallas, the goddess of wisdom, tutoress and guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious, is, and hath been still accounted a virgin. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
They have ventilation features, detachable ankle guards and a quality snug fit. The Sun
The Guardian's pull-out supplement on the same day sported a black cover with just the words ‘Oh, God’ in the middle.
We may then sum up by saying that Lord Byron generally established on an impregnable rock, guarded by unbending principles, those great virtues to which principles are essential; but that, after making these treasures secure -- for treasures they are to the man of honor and worth -- once having placed them beyond the reach of sensibility and sentiment, he may sometimes have allowed the _lesser virtues_ (within ordinary bonds) such indulgence as flowed from his kindly nature, and such as his youth rendered natural to a feeling heart and ardent imagination. Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
Maybe it was the Royal Marines, the Ghurkas, and the Brigade of Guards whose bandsmen were a hundred metres away, but I don't think so.
Each hospital is also appointing local whistleblowing guardians. Times, Sunday Times
Inside, the guards were no longer lounging about with a bored air but stood at attention next to the body.
Guardian | Nazi eugenics, Virginia Woolf and the morality of designer babies A grande virtude do nazismo está em ter enterrado de vez com os ideais de eugenia. Leituras
_a priori_ almost impossible that the inhabitants of Wenus had never heard of Pozzuoli -- would guard me from the jellifying Mash-Glance of the The War of the Wenuses
Training crossing guards to spot and defuse volatile situations is one of the options being explored. Times, Sunday Times
The guard saluted me smartly.
Technical security mechanisms to guard data transmitted over a communications network so that it cannot easily be intercepted or accessed.
This has become a motif among net-critics, whose vanguard is Andrew Keen, who wrote a sloppy, intellectually dishonest book called The Cult of the Amateur that damns the Internet for much the same reasons (Clay Shirky wrote a great response to Keen). Boing Boing
He's my favorite because when he adjusts my mouthguard/biteplate/plastic thang, he makes me bite down on the tasty toxic plastic he adds to it from time to time. Nspblues Diary Entry
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The Duke shakily got to his feet, and he hurried out of the room, just as a servant and two guards entered.
We must retain these vital safeguards for hard-working people. Times, Sunday Times
G, Bartek J, Lukas J (2001) The ATM-Chk2-Cdc25A checkpoint pathway guards against radioresistant DNA synthesis. PLoS Biology: New Articles
My car nosed under the guardrail and broke in half.
These are tears of sorrow that it has come to this, that the country’s matriarch is gone, and no one looms bright over the horizon to serve as the country’s guardian angel. Global Voices in English » Philippines: People mourn death of Corazon Aquino
Insect nests have guards who deter entry by both conspecific and allospecific intruders.
Luke is placed in an isolated environment with strict rules, guards, and regimentation and his fiercely individualistic spirit immediately clashes.
The camouflage Humvees were on every corner topped by national guardsmen.
It is knowing this about human nature that we set up safeguards to prevent us from being our worst.
She swung the truck off the highway and angled it between the pale green signs to rattle over the cattle guard. The Man From High Mountain
A total of 110,000 security personnel will be on duty at the Games, with airspace around venues tightly guarded and navy gunboats patrolling the waters around the city.
When he died in 1995, she and her younger brother, Te Rakaherea, became the guardians of Sir Maui's writings, his taonga and even his mana.
The family struggled to agree a formula under which a panel would be established to safeguard editorial independence. Times, Sunday Times
Fresh Apples, who has been posting updates since the riots began, reports that the government posted guards at the CBS radio masts on Buziga Hill in Kampala: Global Voices in English » Uganda: Blogs, Twitter Keep World Informed as Kampala Riots Continue
Where the court has appointed a solicitor the guardian ad litem may apply for termination of his appointment.
The gunman was finally overpowered by three security guards.
If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them, with trifles and gingles, but use them justly and graciously, with sufficient guard nevertheless; and do not win their favor, by helping them to invade their enemies, but for their defence it is not amiss; and send oft of them, over to the country that plants, that they may see a better condition than their own, and commend it when they return. The Essays
A pollution expert with the coast guard service is assessing the damage caused by the capsizing.
In the period after the interval their methodical probing of the Hibs rearguard continued and Alex Burns should have done more than blaze wide of the target when presented with an inviting, angled opening.
He, however, believes that the biggest threat to the rhinos is that they could be poached, although the state has employed several guards to watch over them.
An entirely free public service, all you need to do is call her up and Geneviève will happily stop by to scope out your crib and offer suggestions on how you can better safeguard your digs from thieves.
The accounts have been based not only on the word of detainees, but of prison guards, translators, FBI agents and others.
After an initial search, police left the crime scene unguarded and open to rain, tides and curious visitors. Times, Sunday Times
the guards stood stiff-backed and unsmiling
I gaped unguardedly at the wad of bills in his hands.
Guardastagno (forgetting the lawes of respect and loyall friendship) became overfondly enamoured, expressing the same by such outward meanes, that the Lady her selfe tooke knowledge thereof, and not with any dislike, as it seemed, but rather lovingly entertained; yet she grew not so forgetfull of her honour and estimation, as the other did of faith to his friend. The Decameron
He enjoyed the trappings of power, such as a chauffeur-driven car and bodyguards.
Even more important, they might fail to notice a menace or threat which if not guarded against might harm or even destroy them, their regime, and possibly even the state as well.
Arabs, especially Hazramís193, who recommended him to the King; and this King (who was a Kafir) trusted him and advanced him to the captainship of his body guard. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
‘Zero visibility means holding a 50,000 - candlepower light in your hand and not knowing it's on,’ explains Butch Hendrick of Lifeguard Systems.
The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security for our Republic.
Tarsha pushed into the opening at the end of the bivvy followed by the guard who handed a bulky sack to her commander and left.
Then I tried to get at him in many ways; but he was pretty sly and had always two prize-fighters, besides his sons and his khitmutgar, on guard over him. The Sign of Four
After an initial search, the stretch of beach where the bodies were found was left unguarded and open to rain, tides and curious visitors. Times, Sunday Times
According to first findings, the guard was shot down with eight or nine bullets from a machine gun fired by an unknown number of assailants who had approached him.
Good, I hadn't forgotten anything, and the guard was snoring slightly in the corner.
Soon the guard - about half a dozen soldiers and NCOs in all - marched out with an extremely rapid step and exaggerated movements; they came to a halt with a massive goose-step.
A security guard surprised the burglars in the storeroom.
I requested permission from my California Army National Guard commander to drill in Washington DC during the summer of 2002, where I was interning after my first year of law school.
Ask your followers to STOP attacking her in demeaning ways. not because she is a woman but because you CONTINUALLY espouse change but do little to make your followers see change as accepting old guard while creating the new guard. Clinton: 'I've never given up on you'
More photographs of the carolling will be in Wednesday's Guardian.
Also the South was becoming the subject of ridicule throughout the country, and I thought most southerners would not like to see themselves thought of as being hellions and blackguardly-type persons. Oral History Interview with Marion Wright, March 8, 1978. Interview B-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
They include more guards on trains, a ‘no radio, no train’ rule for trains with faulty communication systems and stronger drivers' cabs.
He looks to take the initiative and encourages what the old guard would have considered dangerous or risky strokeplay. The Sun
The captains of the guards advertised the Emperor of it, who sent out scouts.
Media teams were kept well back behind fences and police guards. The Sun
Amr Nabil/Associated Press An army tank guarded a fire-damaged shopping mall. Egypt Opposition Ramps Up Pressure
I don't see anything wrong with a handguard or any other safety feature on a knife sharpener. More on Plaxico and Christmas
You are born-again, re-sobered, a former hardcore binge drinker and rumored huge fan of various illegal substances back in college, and you had at least one DUI arrest and went AWOL from the National Guard, and you've stashed away from public view all records of both your tenure as Texas governor, and those SEC investigations into your alleged insider trading. Chaos Theory:
Armed forces police and coastguard services, approximately 300.
He has been at pains to assure a sceptical public of various other safeguards to check against the rampant abuses of the disinvestment process.
There is a reason for that tokotoko—it's not just for showmanship, but it is to safeguard them.
In general it has to be dumped in derelict and unguarded houses, where such of it as is not looted is ruined by damp. As I Please
They strongly urge the assorted presidents, prime ministers and corporate chieftains to come without their staffs and guards.
Stunned gallery visitors watched as guards grabbed him until cops arrived to arrest him. The Sun
The prisoner broke away from his guards.
The security guard challenged him outside the building and the youngster gave himself up.
There was no sign of the bodyguards or protocol officers which usually surround senior officers. Times, Sunday Times
Shortly afterwards the Guardian, a British broadsheet newspaper, published the obituary of Cohn Osman, founder of Creative Camera.
At times the home rearguard looked tentative. Times, Sunday Times
Another test might be the serious pursuit of a Civil Service Act to entrench basic safeguards.
At the border the guard waved me through.
There were bathers in the pool and the life guards cleared the pool.
Taking aim again, I pulled the trigger and the blank hit the guard in the chest.
In the golden lamplight, knots of heavily armed guardsmen were talking in low voices.
Pensacola, in order to relieve the guard of the fortin; on which the History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
Ildefonso Schuster, son of a stalwart Swiss-German officer in the Vatican's famed Swiss Guard, is accounted an Italian Cardinal because he was born in Rome. Time Magazine on the Elevation of Ildefonso Schuster
The children whined, splashing each other and Knazarath a few more times, but then followed the guard to the bedroom obediently, if a bit noisily.
We have to invent a new method for sneaking prisoners out without being noticed by the guards.
To keep the movement unseeable by the enemy: the action with the blade will have to follow precise lines of movement (going and coming back), starting from a guard position and arriving in another guard.
After an initial search, police left the crime scene unguarded and open to rain, tides and curious visitors. Times, Sunday Times
It would only be a matter of minutes before the alarm was raised and the guard called out.
Because it's Monday and it's a school day, the crowd is a lot smaller, (but) it appears a lot of people aren't going to work or school," said Los Angeles County lifeguard Capt. Los Angeles Heat Wave Bakes At Record 113 Degrees
Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger asked about Google's role in this freemium world; 40 % of the traffic to its sites comes from Google.
Mr Lang, a retired veterinary surgeon, says he can still remember the thrill of seeing the lady's slipper in Yorkshire, long before it had to be heavily guarded.
According to the Guardian, ‘Ministers have been pressing India behind the scenes to clinch the contract’.
I should certainly be on my guard if I were you.
Keeping clean is a safeguard against disease.
The sentry guard dived into his foxhole and closely observed the stranger towards him.
An armed soldier, a member of the Taman guard, flagged them down at the barrier.
In-house work includes subediting for the Guardian, GMB and PC World, admin / production work for the Sunday Times and cover as acting editor of BT Vision's magazine. News from Journalism.co.uk
They got in before our security guard came on duty, but I am now electrifying the fence and getting 24-hour protection.
We will guard the portals between these two realms, and we will shelter your people if they return.
Central to the Vichy vision, she argues, was the eternal female, ever supportive, fertile, and pure, in a timeless social and moral order where women were mothers, the helpmates of men, and guardians of moral probity.
The other woman sighed; Vicky's view of her was obstructed by a circle of three guards that surrounded her.
You could be very secluded, I promise - Marian would guard you like a tigress from unwanted callers. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
We escorted them into the camp, passing the guards who had barricaded themselves into the sentry box. Times, Sunday Times
Armed guards wrestled with the intruder.
The 6th Guards Army alone lost up to 30 thous of killed and wounded at Kursk.
Another population of Asiatic lions is desperately needed in order to safeguard the survival of this subspecies.
They admitted to being just a little caught off-guard when one of the professional couples started dancing during their live performance. The Sun
The only hint of fear in the company was the presence of two tall gorilla bodyguards clasping small automatic fire-arms, who glared at us suspiciously as we approached, but made no attempt to stop us.
LONDON — Coast guards are hunting for a pair of missing American balloonists last detected piloting their craft over the Adriatic Sea in rough weather, officials said Wednesday. Richard Abruzzo And Carol Rymer Davis Missing In European Balloon Race
Kabila was shot on Tuesday last week, allegedly by a lone bodyguard in what may have been a coup attempt.
Soldiers guard the water and electricity works, armament factories, railway stations and post offices.
On 7 September, resisting confinement in the post guardhouse, he received a fatal wound from a soldier's bayonet.
The courts, however, decided that a port so little guarded as Wilmington was at that time could not be legally called blockaded, and the brig was therefore released. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
At some point in their careers, most broadcasters have made an unguarded comment when the fader was open and the mic was live.
Stepping out onto the cobbles in front of the steps, the men found themselves at the center of a loose circle of guardsman.
The finial for all ground force colours is the crest of Canada (a lion statant guardant royally crowned and holding a maple leaf in his right forepaw) cast in gilt brass.
The soldier bargained that he should not have to go on guard on Sundays.
As the Michigan National Guard had been federalized for the war effort, the remaining volunteer state troops were asked to mobilize.
As a soldier-worker he has drill, inspections, and guard duty, and does work such as road building and dredging.
We know there will be a Coast Guard cutter in the area potentially working with us in TW06.
The government would be guided by the needs of first home buyers as well as the interests of existing home owners seeking to safeguard their investment.
I am guardedly optimistic that Madonna -- ever the trend setter -- will inspire women everywhere to try the 'salmon retox.' Dr. Nicholas Perricone: Madonna: Salmon Queen
The system has a safeguard built in to ensure that the drivers of oncoming cars are not dazzled. Times, Sunday Times
Other infections which the injections guard against are MMR and the controversial cervical cancer jab, which is for girls only. Landmark U.S. Study: Delaying Child’s Vaccinations May Do Harm | Impact Lab
Romanov pulled out a file folder from her jacket slowly, ensuring that the bodyguards saw what she held, and handed it to Mr. Devlin.
The Government has been arguing that it is this measure that will be the ultimate safeguard for citizens involved in peaceful protests and industrial strikes.
I am satisfied the judgment of the country favors the policy of aid to our merchant marine, which will broaden our commerce and markets and upbuild our sea-carrying capacity for the products of agriculture and manufacture; which, with the increase of our Navy, mean more work and wages to our countrymen, as well as a safeguard to State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
We will introduce legal safeguards against fraud.

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