Sentence examples for guarded state from inspiring English sources

The actual declines in value of the central bank's various investments are a carefully guarded state secret.

Instead, most of the suspects — who sometimes wait years for trial — are housed in poorly guarded state jails, which are packed often beyond capacity.

In 1883 he concluded an alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, which remained a closely guarded state secret until the outbreak of World War I.

China executes more people each year than the rest of the world combined, although the exact number is a tightly guarded state secret.

While health is often thought of as fragile and subject to many onslaughts, it is, in fact, a ruggedly guarded state protected by a host of highly efficient internal mechanisms.

The MEK has broad social support in Iran, as evidenced by its ability to access the most carefully guarded state secrets regarding the regime's nuclear program and terrorism.

Obama emerged from the campaign having assembled what was essentially an alternative apparatus to the party itself — a closely guarded, state-by-state list of more than 10 million names, many of them door-knockers, phone-bankers, letter-writers and small-dollar donors.

But the image is of someone guarding state secrets deep in his trousers.

While ordering the closing of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Mr. Obama endorsed some Bush positions on holding detainees, guarding state secrets and snatching terrorism suspects from other countries.

The Justice Department, which in the last few months has gotten protective orders from two federal judges keeping details of the technology out of court, says it is guarding state secrets that would threaten national security if disclosed.

Film companies are looking for more tangible rewards, of course, and they evade the subject of how to promote such difficult new films as if they were guarding state secrets.