Sentence examples for guard of a from inspiring English sources

An honor guard of a dozen uniformed soldiers stood in front of Castro's tomb.

They are the advance guard of a contingent expected to grow to 250 after further negotiations with Syria.

Gen. George Armstrong Custer's Michigan cavalry brigade pursued the rear guard of a Confederate division commanded by Maj.

His last role with the company, held until his death, was as an unarmed guard of a gated retirement community.

Instead, its executives spoke of themselves as the advance guard of a revolution in the way that we all live, work and play.

On 5 November, British and French paratroopers landed on the Egyptian coast, the advance guard of a hastily planned ground invasion.

We soon learn that they are the advance guard of an invasion force.

If he finds that other recent searches include chisels, rudimentary drills and chloroform I'd suggest he starts being on his guard of an evening.

There was a brass band, and a color guard of sailors, an airman and a marine.

Here it's personalities, rather than formal positions, that matter, and the guards of a strongman like Qadir outrank a simple police officer by several degrees.

Meanwhile, Najib cannot escape reminders of the murder in 2006 by his security guards of a pregnant mistress of a close associate.