Sentence examples for held guards from inspiring English sources

You could say, depending to some degree on your politics, that it was where prisoners rioted on Sept. 9, 1971, then held guards and other prison employees hostage for four days in the yard of Cellblock D until state troopers moved in with force to regain control for the lawful authorities.

My colleagues followed behind quickly with their car, two of them ran into the little room and one quickly held the loader at bay while the other one held guard at the door with a gun in his hand.

"The Justice Department has to make detention a priority, and one way is to hold guards responsible".

Defending his decision not to go to the Attica Correctional Facility in September 1971 where inmates were holding guards hostage and where a siege by the state police ended in 39 deaths, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller made a disparaging assertion about New York's John V. Lindsay.

Just three years earlier there had been a riot there during which inmates spent hours attacking other prisoners and holding guards hostage.

Common sightings across Spanish cities these days are groups of enraged neighbours holding guard outside buildings to impede judges from notifying, and therefore kicking out, debt-ridden flat owners.

The horizon offers a watery mirage of heat, confusing until the sharp relief of stick huts and camels comes into focus with shepherds holding guard with AK-47s casually draped over their shoulders.

She said she held the guards responsible.

In the parking lot, Iranian security men assigned to the American negotiators held the Guards off.

The afternoon rain delayed setup, and about 2,000 fans were held by guards behind an invisible line as the crew concluded its work.

Redoine had smuggled a handgun into prison and held four guards hostage, using them as human shields.