Sentence examples for inspected a guard of from inspiring English sources

Before that, I inspected a guard of honour and the Irish national anthem was played.

So on November 28th he inspected a guard of honour in Rawalpindi and passed the baton to General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani.

He was greeted at Ahmedabad airport by Gujarat government officials and inspected a guard of honour.

In the first few minutes of his visit to Ghana, he had dutifully inspected a guard of honour and listened to the Iranian and Ghanaian national anthems.

In this photograph, she is inspecting a guard of honour of the 5th Battalion, which greeted her on the platform.

The opening ceremony to welcome Xi to Britain saw him inspect a guard of honour at Horse Guards Parade.

After inspecting a guard of honour, he climbs a podium to greet Hamas's assembled notables, as a loudspeaker blares out an array of titles and praise.

President Goodluck Jonathan, who was inspecting a guard of honour at the time, called it a "wicked act of desperation by criminals and murderers".

From the 1960s, governors would inspect a guard of honour at Edinburgh Place, followed by the swearing-in at City Hall.

Attending an official welcoming ceremony by Emperor Akihito on Thursday morning, Obama was greeted by schoolchildren waving Japanese and US flags, and later inspected a military guard of honour.

Obama briefly inspected an honour guard before beginning two hours of talks with Abbas followed by lunch.