Sentence examples for guard over a from inspiring English sources

Or are corporations hiring police forces as private armies to stand guard over a private meeting?

The dog was standing guard over a deceased individual, possibly its owner, in Moore following the tornado there.

A massive statue of the guerrilla fighter Augusto Sandino, hero of the modern Sandinistas, stands guard over a playground.

A monk now keeps guard over a small chapel in Aksum where Ethiopians insist that the ark resides.

The charge that "austerity mongers" on the Continent have been standing guard over a new debtors' prison cannot be easily dismissed.

When he arrived, he found biblical scenes playing out along the street: Centurions standing guard over a sorrowful Mary and a tortured Christ in his agony.

"I feel bad for these people; I really do," Sgt. Eric Brown said as he stood guard over an Iraqi family taken from its home.

About an hour after the sale opened, with shoppers trying on Armani jackets and making jokes about the décor, Mr. Plaia was standing guard over an enormous pile of clothes, including the tuxedo that Mr. Scrushy wore at one of his weddings.

Turkey is like a restless expatriate that spent most of the past century in the West trying to escape its previous six centuries as the capital of the Muslim East, and the challenge to the old guard over an item like the head scarf is, in many ways, Turkey becoming more itself.

The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff Three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out are brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire.

Tulum (City of the Wall) One of the big draws for archaeo-tourists is the clifftop city of Tulum, perched like a guard over an ancient seaport at the southern end of the resort strip.