Sentence examples for guard a force from inspiring English sources

Coast guard, a force, usually naval, that enforces a country's maritime laws and assists vessels wrecked or in distress on or near its coasts.

Mr. Gbagbo's control over fiercely loyal elite units like the Republican Guard, a force of about 1,000 to 1,500 soldiers that has been central in the current wave of repression against opponents, would make him a tough match militarily.

After all he's been through, Richardson looks and sounds remarkably the way he did when he was an All-Star point guard, a kinetic force of nature, with a mischievous twinkle in his eye.

They have been operating largely out of the American Embassy in Tripoli, now guarded by a force of 50 elite Marines trained to protect American diplomatic posts in crisis.

They quickly overwhelmed a small security detail that included three guards from a force called the 17th of February Brigade and five Libyans employed by a British security company called Blue Mountain.

He had been assigned to the presidential guard, an elite force whose primary mission is to keep Mr. Kabila alive.

Smith, a 26-year-old point guard, was not a force in training camp.

Peng remained behind to guard Jinggangshan with a force of 800 soldiers, but withdrew from the area when it was attacked by a Hunanese Kuomintang force of 25,000 soldiers, joining Zhu and Mao in Ruijin in March.

By the night of February 28th the government had deployed the Bangladesh Border Guards, a paramilitary force, in a bid to maintain law and order around the country.

Many members of Saran's tribe are village guards, a huge force of mainly Kurdish paramilitaries created almost 30 years ago by the Turkish state to patrol Kurdish settlements of the south-east.

Other security units include military intelligence; general intelligence; special security (which keeps watch over opposition groups); Force 17, which protects Mr. Arafat and other officials; and the Chairman's Guard, a subgroup of Force 17.