The earliest colonies were coast-guard communities, each containing about 300 Roman citizens and their families.
The World Health Organization recommends average nighttime noise levels of no more than 40 decibels to guard communities against ill health effects.
Some see the case as yet another reminder that South Africa remains a violent society and one in which many whites, like Mr. Pistorius, live in heavily guarded communities, but still fear attacks by the black majority and feel entitled to take matters into their own hands.
They're right around the corner from each other in Fremont Place, a gated, guarded community in L.A. Mary Pickford's house belongs to a Filipino banker.
That shift leads the book to Los Alamos during wartime, though it is notably more colorless than other accounts of the guarded community there.
The Admiralty, a gated and guarded community that opened in 1977 on the 200-acre landscaped former Thorne estate, is adjacent to shoreline land owned by the Nature Conservancy.
It includes a water park, with Disneyesque water slides, a children's railway, hiking trails, tennis courts, a rock-climbing wall, two golf courses, several spotless parks, a supermarket mall, two churches, a school and, for those who want a little more security, the Anthem Country Club, a gated (and guarded) community.Anthem, which is planned to have 12,500 homes, opened in 1999.
Tapply's understated style may forever condemn Coyne to a dull love life; but it serves the sordid nature of the story and well suits the hero, whose reserved character (and nice manners) invites confidence from the women and children who turn out to be his best sources when the dirty secrets of a guarded community start leaking out.
Snyder, a New York-based filmmaker, traveled to Newtown just weeks after the attack and slowly won the trust of an understandably guarded community.
Together they have offered a glimpse of a slice of South African society, including its heavily guarded gated communities where it seems everyone goes to bed by 10pm.
Central to the plan that General Petraeus is leaving to his successor is the program to recruit and train village men into local police forces to guard their communities and strengthen local governments.
