The writer had been cremated in an earlier private ceremony and the memorial culminated with the two presidents mounting a guard of honour next to an austere wooden urn containing his ashes placed on a black pedestal surrounded by yellow roses.
Also, a detachment of the unit providing the Queen's Guard at Buckingham Palace still mounts a guard at the Tower, and with the Yeomen Warders, takes part in the Ceremony of the Keys each day.
"Everybody knows where he lives" in Munich, and police cannot mount a constant guard, Mr. Nickolai said in a telephone interview.
Since your newspaper whole-heartedly cheered on the disastrous war in Iraq, I can understand why you continue to mount a rear guard action in defense of the Bush administration's approach to militant Islam.
Some Iraqi armored troops have reportedly abandoned their tanks, dispersed into groups of about 150 soldiers, and moved south largely in pickup trucks armed with.50-caliber machine guns in an apparent effort to mount a rear-guard guerrilla attack against the advancing American forces.
Nor should anyone doubt the capacity of corporate influence peddlers to mount a successful rear-guard action.
The local police, who feared that the antiwar protest might get out of hand, mounted a heavy guard at the United States Consulate.
Those fouls also added up for Utah State, which had to mount a final charge without guard Jared Quayle, who had 18 points (including 4 3-pointers), 8 rebounds and 4 assists, and post player Tai Wesley, who had 15 points.
Mr. Cai acknowledged that the postal authorities had been mounting a rear-guard action against foreign competitors in some places, but he was optimistic that it would not last much longer.
An unregenerate Marxist who names his newspaper Iskra (meaning spark in Russian) after Lenin's paper in the last days of Tsardom, Lafazanis is mounting a rear-guard movement of opposition to Tsipras within his own party with the intention of undermining the government's latest round of negotiations with the Eurozone before it starts.
