Sentence examples for guards a single from inspiring English sources

Almost nothing happens for much of the movie's 141-minute length, as the local sheriff, memorably named John T. Chance (John Wayne), guards a single prisoner in his tiny jail, waiting for the prisoner's powerful brother to attack and try to liberate him with the help of hired guns.

A few teams of unarmed guards with a single boat have no hope, really, of defending the area against determined poachers.

Much of this depends on your taste for hockey versus basketball, the idea of rubber pucks being flung at your face at 100 miles an hour or leaping over point guards in a single bound.

"We were real short-handed," said Sergeant Shaffer, the metal worker from Pennsylvania, who described cases in which no more than six guards on a single shift would be in charge of 700 Iraqi prisoners.

[With nearly 85percentt of votes counted by early Monday, Mr. Alkhanov had won nearly 74percentt of the vote, more than enough for an outright victory, Reuters reported.] At four polling places that foreign journalists were allowed to visit, always accompanied by Russian soldiers and Chechen guards, not a single voter could be found expressing support for any of the six other candidates.

The Grand Ducal Palace, a graceful little chateau, is guarded by a single soldier.

Shifts spent on "high watch", also known as "arm's length watch", involve a guard monitoring a single asylum seeker from a distance no greater than arm's length, in order to stop them hurting themselves.

The lack of human interference means that each speck of land is studded with turtle nesting holes and guarded by a single osprey nest, whose inhabitants will attack if you get too close.

The entire event reverberates with the kind of historical discordance that would cause Lenin to roll over in his lonely mausoleum, which also happens to be in the immediate vicinity, guarded by a single bored policeman.

In horses, a large number of mares but few stallions appear to have been involved in the development of the genome, and with the exception of thoroughbreds there was also a lot of genetic sharing between breeds.That pattern is partly a consequence of the fact that herds of horses usually contain a lot of mares guarded by a single stallion.

I ask him where he lived and he points to a row of box-like houses a few hundred metres from the guard block, a single road leading in and out.