Sentence examples for garrisoned from inspiring English sources

Eventually, on January 30th 2006, about six months after they had expected to finish the job, they trapped the last one—"a scruffy tabby, quite small"—and for the first time in 200 years the islands were safe for birds.In 1815, when the island was first garrisoned by the British, around 20m birds are thought to have been living on it.

His army is safely garrisoned, inside strong though isolated positions, and the police have so far contained democratic rallies in the towns with minimal violence.

It has propped up the Kims, if only to protect the buffer state that separates it from the American troops garrisoned in South Korea.

Besides, the Ugandan army and the MLC are still pushing westwards towards the strategic city of Mbandaka, garrisoned by Angolans.And what of the Congolese people in all this?

Most of Pool is off-limits to independent observers, but refugees say the Ninjas have disappeared into the bush, from which they occasionally attack the villages now garrisoned by the army.In the past two weeks, UN aid flights have been allowed to land in Kindamba, a town surrounded by Ninjas.

Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia (the latter two were one country until 1993) had titular independence, but they were run from Moscow by national communist parties, and garrisoned with Soviet troops.

Save for garrisoning the border with some 200,000 under-fed and under-provisioned troops, Russia's federal government does precious little to manifest its supposed power.As a result, sovereignty is leaking away, not to China, but to local leaders.

France wants them led by the Malians, but they will rely on French muscle.The hope is to kill as many as possible of the most fanatical jihadists, and to garrison the northern towns with soldiers from Mali and its neighbours, before the insurgents can regroup or bring in recruits.

Blandford garrison was the first Ministry of Defence site to build a dedicated kitchen garden and it has recently submitted plans to plant a new orchard.

He will do his bit to raise funds for Prince Harry's African charities next month by travelling to the Odeon Leicester Square in London for the red carpet premiere of a digitally remastered Zulu, the 1964 film starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine that dramatises the 1879 defence of the Rorke's Drift garrison by 139 British soldiers against 4,000 Zulu warriors.

But since the discovery, on 2 May this year, of Bin Laden – found in Abbottabad, a garrison town 35 miles north of Islamabad – experts believe Zawahiri could also be sheltering outside the tribal belt.