Seduced by his initial success, he failed to guard against the possibility of things going wrong.
But they failed to guard against looting: after a brief burst of lawlessness, 140 people were arrested.
Under Republican and Democratic administrations, we've failed to guard against practices that all too often rewarded financial manipulation instead of productivity and sound business practice.
Analysts here say the Iraqi security forces have concentrated so much energy on trying to stop violence within the country's borders that they failed to guard against an external threat.
This emergency state, as Unger calls it, not only expands presidential powers, wastes money and tramples the rights of Americans and foreigners, but it also fails to guard the country from today's real dangers.
The Boeing Company today rejected State Department complaints that it failed to guard against technology leaks to China, calling security concerns a priority for the company and promising negotiations to resolve the matter.
E1 Business AID TO INSURERS -- President Bush's senior economic advisers said the nation would face an economic crisis if Congress failed to guard the insurance industry against losses from any future terrorist attacks.
The parents of one junior-varsity player said the school failed to guard against the abuse, which prosecutors said occurred during the last week of August at a Pennsylvania camp where the team was training for the coming season.
Unfortunately, we who should have known better failed to guard against such a future.
These days, it is the company that fails to guard itself against climate change risk that is destined to find itself on the losing end of market share.
It also gives the point guard the easiest, most direct path to the hoop if the defense fails to guard him.
