Sentence examples for battalion of guards from inspiring English sources

Inside the chapel, a battalion of guards enforced gag orders with a zeal not practiced since the time of the Inquisition.

A military commander near Nuremberg said in a newsletter that 29,600 pairs of eyes could provide more protection than a battalion of guards.

He even extends his authority beyond the borders of Chechnya: his battalion of guards fought in the war in Georgia a year ago, now they are officially allowed to operate in Ingushetia.

That image is hard to shake as you walk its tidy streets, patrolled by an endless battalion of crossing guards.

One of those killed was Bismillah Khan, a district police chief, and another was the commander of a battalion of border guards, he said.

The Yankees didn't have a battalion of security guards in those days, so we'd stand right next to the railing and pray that Mickey would notice us.

From the mid-1990's, Ghanikhel's bazaar was the base for hundreds of merchants working from shops enclosed in a mud-walled maze, protected by a battalion of armed guards.

At the Royal Hospital of Kilmainham, Sergeant John Graham, formerly in the light company of the 2nd battalion of Coldstream Guards, the individual selected by the Duke of Wellington as "the bravest of the brave" in the desperate combat at Waterloo, in order to profit by the generous offer of the Rev.

We designed a moving performance piece in which a battalion of soldiers guarded a mobile jail cell imprisoning an actor playing Bradley.

Two battalions of Spanish Guards were formed up, in line, at the top of a steep incline while the remaining two formed close columns behind them; a single battery of Spanish artillery supported the whole position.

Another resident who lives at the foothills of Qasioun, the mountain in the middle of the city in which elite praetorian guard units are based, said the boom of artillery, usually heard daily form the 105th battalion of the Republican Guards, had fallen silent on Wednesday.