Sentence examples for guards under the from inspiring English sources

The government could seek to prosecute the guards under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, or MEJA, which extends American criminal law to contractors overseas.

Democratic congressmen complained today that the administration was proposing excessive salaries of $70,000 plus overtime for checkpoint guards under the new airport security system.

Or it could try to court-martial the guards under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which was amended last year to cover contractors accompanying the armed forces in the field.

Bremer's September 2003 order put the guards under the command and pay of the ministries they protected, not of the interior or defense ministries, which handle the rest of Iraq's security forces.

To the south the Dutch Guards, under the command of Colonel Wertmüller, came forward with their two field guns to seize the hamlet of Franquenée.

The year of service could take the form of soldiering at frontier garrisons protecting the borders against nomadic enemies, serving as guards in the courts of kings or as guards under the Minister of the Guards in the capital.

It was, Mr. Clark writes, "a praetorian guard under the personal command of the king".

The Demjanjuk case matters, above all, because there was never much doubt that he had been a vicious prison guard under the Nazis.

"I hate to use a basketball analogy, but you don't put a point guard under the basket and tell him to rebound.

In the United Kingdom they are issued by the Hydrographic Office, under the Board of Admiralty, and in the United States they are issued by the U.S. Coast Guard, under the federal Department of Transportation.

The women -- part of a special female United Nations police unit from India -- lead dual lives: stamping out street crime by night and standing guard under the steamy equatorial sun outside the Monrovia headquarters of the Liberian president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.