LAW 5: SO MUCH DEPENDS ON REPUTATION — GUARD IT WITH YOUR LIFE When considering a project, Mr. Greene said, "I always try to hire someone who has a good track record".
"I'm going to write down a number, and I want you to guard it with your life".
"The proprietor guarded it with a shotgun from the Chechens and the Russian soldiers both," he recalled.
"She protected his legacy and guarded it with all of her being," Marlene Owens Rankin said of her mother.
"You really have to hide any interest in the intellect – guard it with your life, especially at elementary school.
Singing "A Love Like Ours," a song first popularized by Barbra Streisand, Ms. Carroll emphasized the gravity of the phrase, "When love like ours arrives/We guard it with our lives," whose words (by Alan and Marilyn Bergman) are not to be taken lightly.
Instead of spraying their eggs willy-nilly in the water, snakeheads adhere to a circle-the-wagons breeding strategy: Their babies form a close-packed shoal soon after they've hatched, and the parental units guard it with tireless menace.
Shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and on the Pentagon, Czech police built a concrete barrier around the building and are guarding it with heavily armed soldiers and armored vehicles.
There will be plenty of West Ham supporters who will argue this is already his working template, which means that when Reo-Coker came to Law 5, "So Much Depends on Reputation – Guard it with your Life", he will have nodded ruefully.
Yelena Rzhevskaya, the interpreter with the Smersh group, later recounted how on the evening of May 8, when Soviet troops prepared to celebrate the German surrender, she was given a box covered in red satin and told to guard it with her life.
