Sentence examples for guards meaning from inspiring English sources

It would simply force the ferries and tunnel to take the place of border guards, meaning higher ticket prices and longer queues.

When he asked his students about the benefits of hookups, the kids volunteered: "No expected commitment," "Sexual pleasure" and "Guarding emotions," meaning you can enjoy yourself without the messiness of attachment.

The Miami Heat announced Saturday that they had waived the veteran guard Eddie House, meaning that the rookies Mickell Gladness and Terrel Harris, former N.B.A. Development League teammates, had made the 15-man roster.

All season long, the Clippers have "blitzed" or "hedged" hard on the top point guards in the NBA, meaning they trap the point guard and force him to give up the basketball.

Brown, the eventual winner, campaigned on promises to maintain benefits for prison guards and increase the state's inmate capacity rather than releasing prisoners, meaning more guards would keep their jobs.

By 1995, the SPLA had formally planned the organization of a civilian militia which they named Titweng, meaning "cattle guards" (Jok and Hutchinson 1999).

And, unlike steady-state cardio, it recruits type-2 muscle fibers over type-1s, meaning it guards against muscle loss.

Marbury promptly altered Wilkens's instructions, which he had once given to Gus Williams, his point guard in the 1978-79 championseasoneason in Seattle: "Just run, and if they're not there, shoot it," Wilkens said, meaning swift point guards like Marbury and Williams need not wait for slow teammates to catch up.

She argued that the current climate of offence easily taken, safe spaces sought and identities fiercely guarded was in danger of meaning that "the kind of fiction we are 'allowed' to write is in danger of becoming so hedged, so circumscribed, so tippy-toe, that we'd indeed be better off not writing the anodyne drivel to begin with".

These patients, he noted, were subject to "special security," meaning round-the-clock guards.

"We told our professor, 'We want to make period underwear,' " she recalled, meaning underpants designed to guard against tampon failure.