Sentence examples for serving as guards from inspiring English sources

The parents rode in buses for the eighty-mile journey to Maiduguri, the state capital, with staff members from the school, some girls who had escaped the kidnappers, and armed vigilantes serving as guards.

One of General Miller's recommendations was that the American military police, serving as guards at Abu Ghraib, become "actively engaged in setting the conditions for successful exploitation of internees," according to an internal investigation by an Army major general.

The document says the investigation into the two deaths "is continuing with recent re-interviews," both of military intelligence personnel from Fort Bragg and of Army Reserve military police officers from Ohio and surrounding states, who were serving as guards at the facility.

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.

Shamefully, clergy members took a voracious dive into the bloodbath, serving as guards, commanders and executioners at the 40 camps, most famously Jasenovac, the Holocaust's third-largest yet least spoken-of camp.

PTSD remains a prevalent problem for men and women returning home from war zones around the world, but it can also affect US troops serving as guards and medics in highly dangerous situations including those deployed to Guantánamo Bay.

Adds Ollivier: "This [expansion] probably constituted an important advantage for dogs feeding on human leftovers," as they hung around human settlements, perhaps serving as guard dogs.

Their duties including guarding the exterior of the prison; they did not serve as guards inside.

[12] The same pope in 1506 asked the Swiss to send him a contingent of soldiers to serve as guards.

The prison did little to restrain him; his sicarios served as guards, and he remained involved in the cocaine trade.

Like other Deep South prisons, it used a trusty system in which violent, gun-toting inmates, known as "khaki-backs," served as guards.