Sentence examples similar to guard utilities from inspiring English sources

When states began deregulating the power industry in the mid-90's, Enron was certain it could make money selling electricity and gas to companies more cheaply than the old-guard utilities.

E/R Partners spent US$50 million securing one Meridian Plaza and spent up to US$500,000 a month on security guards, utilities and inspections by engineers as the building stood empty.

"The I.C.D.C. blocked the road, and the ambush happened," he said, referring to the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, a force trained by the United States to guard roads and utilities and to fight insurgents.

A Newark-based security company and its top executives have been charged with failing to do required background checks on employees who guarded area airports, utilities, bridges and other places vulnerable to terrorism, and with bribing officials to help them keep their contracts, Attorney General Peter C. Harvey said on Tuesday.

With National Guard reservists guarding dams and utilities, Coast Guard cutters holding up normal vessel traffic in major ports and public gatherings shadowed by patrols in the air and bomb-sniffing dogs on the ground, a swell of homeland defense not seen since World War II rose across the nation yesterday in response to last week's terrorist attacks.

It would have added probation officers, security guards for municipal utilities, welfare fraud investigators and the sergeant-at-arms of both legislative houses in Sacramento to the state's list of public safety workers whose illnesses, including such things as "heart trouble" and Lyme disease, are legally presumed to be work-related.

A reporter walking on Rockaway Point Boulevard, the main street, was quickly intercepted by a guard in a sport utility vehicle, and asked to leave.

Although solar is still small, supplying less than one per cent of the country's electricity, its growth has alarmed the energy industry's old guard — coal, oil, and utility companies.

Earl Watson, Utah Jazz 2.1 steals, 1.0 blocks, 1.1 charges taken per 40 minutes (4.3 defensive plays p40; 23rd among qualified players)  Watson has been a terrific offensive crutch for the Utah Jazz through the struggles of the starting point guard Devin Harris, but his utility is hardly limited to that end of the court.

A 20-month price freeze would not make the lights go out, and it shows how far a privatised British Gas has moved from the role it played as a nationalised utility guarding the nation's energy security.

According to Mary Gottschalk in her excellent book "Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics," challenges include "everything from the absence of any quiet space for studying, to deep tensions between prison educators and prison guards over the utility of educational programming for inmates".