Contrast that with a jewelry store or a bank, where armed guards and imposing vaults are the norm.
Changes to the role of guards were imposed from Sunday, transferring responsibility for closing doors to drivers.
Hotels, restaurants, and night clubs were either closed down or protected by armed guards who imposed strict curfews on the guests, mostly journalists and diplomats.
Because South Ossetia is within Georgia's internationally recognized borders, Georgia doesn't recognize the South Ossetian periphery as a legitimate frontier, and has thus refused to post border guards or impose any normal controls at the administrative line.
Labour will seek to beef up its pitch to voters on immigration with a pledge to pay for 1,000 extra border guards by imposing a charge on visitors from the US and 55 other countries.
Although the judge chastised the guard, Ronald Ferry, he imposed a sentence of six months of weekends in prison.
The 14th-century castle stands guard over the imposing main gateway that opens into a maze of streets lined with cafes, restaurants and boutiques.
Squads of marines, armed with heavy machine guns and mortars, have dug foxholes in a wide ring around a rudimentary airstrip and a central white-walled compound with imposing guard towers on each corner.
There was also an imposing guard of honour – the Queen's Colour Squadron – for him to inspect (fortunately with a podium, so at least while he took the salute we were less conscious of how much shorter he is than David Cameron).
Indeed, most traditional legal applications of human dignity emphasize not the community but the protection of individual rights, often in an effort to guard against state imposed incursion upon individual autonomy.
Obama's daughter was flanked by imposing guards as she ran for her jungle gym.
