Sentence examples for guards state from inspiring English sources
In legal argument during the trial, which can only now be reported, the prosecution unsuccessfully argued that the jury should know about the texts because they shed light on the guards' state of mind.
After his retirement, he served for a time as Massachusetts state boxing commissioner and had a full-time second career working for the state Department of Correction, first as a director of recreation, creating and supervising athletic programs in prisons, and later as a counselor for prison guards, state troopers and other state employees with stress-induced problems.
Security guards have long been a sleepy presence here, but a string of fatal attacks, culminating in the siege of three Mumbai hotels by terrorists last November, have created a demand for new and better trained guards, state-of-the-art equipment and guns for the guards and businessmen themselves.
But the image is of someone guarding state secrets deep in his trousers.
The actual declines in value of the central bank's various investments are a carefully guarded state secret.
This process of amending the Law on Guarding State Secrets, first enacted in 1988, has been fraught with contention as well.
In 1883 he concluded an alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, which remained a closely guarded state secret until the outbreak of World War I.
Instead, most of the suspects — who sometimes wait years for trial — are housed in poorly guarded state jails, which are packed often beyond capacity.
China executes more people each year than the rest of the world combined, although the exact number is a tightly guarded state secret.
While ordering the closing of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Mr. Obama endorsed some Bush positions on holding detainees, guarding state secrets and snatching terrorism suspects from other countries.
While health is often thought of as fragile and subject to many onslaughts, it is, in fact, a ruggedly guarded state protected by a host of highly efficient internal mechanisms.
