Thousands of soldiers and federal police were guarding polling stations where violence and calls for boycotts threatened to mar elections for 500 seats in the lower house of Congress, nine of 31 governorships and hundreds of mayors and local officials.
We also found no strong objection to the Strasbourg court, given the vital role it plays in guarding against abuses of the kind that plagued Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.
Gunmen killed a soldier and police officer guarding the school, then took off with at least 100 students, a state security service official said.
A muscle guarding the Barksdale stash, soon to be taken out by Omar, describes how some "white motherfucker and his wife" came looking for the "po' house", which he took to mean one lived in by poor people until it turned out they were more interested in Edgar Allen Poe.
Think of the three young men mowed down by a hit and run driver while guarding a petrol station in Birmingham's Dudley Road.
Knowing what we know, thanks to Snowden, citizens everywhere must demand two things of their governments: "In the first place," we must say to our rulers, "you have a responsibility, a duty, to protect our rights by guarding us against the spying of outsiders".
"The atmosphere was electric," said an unemployed 51-year-old who was guarding his friend's cafe in Hackney.
They moved in after the Iraqi troops tasked with guarding it ran away.
But as the British Council plays host to over a thousand international higher education leaders at its Going Global conference today, it is a message worth repeating and one that needs to be heard and acted upon by the bureaucrats guarding our borders.
What a beauty he was, with pink waistcoat, highwayman's mask, chestnut wings, dove-grey skull-cap: the butcher bird, the red-backed shrike, guarding his larder.
You can also figure out what not to do by studying their attitudes to guarding themselves against health-related risks.
