Sentence examples for armoured from inspiring English sources

But we know that they have tanks, that they have armoured personnel carriers etcetera.

The IOC says it has asked the organisers to allow more people into the heavily guarded zone (to add to the festive mood, armoured personnel-carriers have been deployed there).The top priority of China's leaders is to ensure the games pass without major incidents (terrorism or protests) and that the sporting events are run smoothly.

The attackers used grenade launchers and automatic weapons to fire at the Ukrainian column, hitting an armoured personnel carrier.

Yemen says it has foiled an al-Qaida plot to blow up oil pipelines and seize some of the country's main ports, but security remains tight and hundreds of armoured vehicles have been deployed to protect key targets.

For the next two weeks, Kamal worked well into the evening in his fortified office in the southern suburb of Arasat, before being sped by armoured convoy across the July 14 Bridge – which had been a target only days earlier – to his home inside the Green Zone.

The month before, I crammed a car seat the size of an armoured tank into our tiny vehicle to protect her on the road.

One of the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) caused the death of Sgt First Class Randy Johnson, 34, of 2nd Stryker cavalry regiment, when it blew a hole in the bottom of the armoured vehicle he was travelling in on 27 September 2007.

Mayors are free in a way national leaders are not: they do not require armoured limousines to travel safely, but ride public transit (Bloomberg) or cycle (Boris).

As heavily armed soldiers continued rolling into the city in armoured vehicles on Tuesday, embattled authorities in Baltimore were struggling to control a growing crisis in their city, long notorious for urban blight and accusations of police brutality.

Officials say overwhelming power and training – police used four armoured cars and the helicopter in the shootout – as well as the suspects' lack of preparation spelled the difference.

That's also freed up Nigerian troops at a time they're also making some headway with procurement of helicopters, armoured personnel carriers and thermal imaging equipment that allows them to attack camps at night".