They were in waiting, sort of guarding the door.
I think the sites that try to harness that sort of flow in information, like Digg, have a real hard time doing it and they have to put in all sorts of guards and protections and try to figure out gaming patterns and I don't think, even then, you can draw any sort of meaningful conclusions from what happens there.
In Syria, the Alawites stand as a sort of palace guard, with everything to lose.
Although he was a troubled youth, "thrown out of that family like a carton of bad milk" at fifteen after stealing a car, he was also Drew's childhood protector, a sort of security guard even then.
For now, their ranks have three elements: a so-called "special forces" detachment of former soldiers and police officers; a main column organized into self-led cells of fighters built around a few weapons and pickup trucks; and a sort of home guard that is undergoing quick training to man checkpoints and serve as a civil defense force. 1 2 Next Page ».
According to Carlos Escarrá, a chavista legislator, it is "disingenuous" of opponents to suggest that the militia "will be a sort of praetorian guard for the president".In this section The Pacific players go to market When toucans can't A Caribbean Tripoli?
By L. N. Freschl and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, October 29, 1938 P. 13 At the threat of war, the command went out for the mobilzation of the defense passive, a sort of home guard detailed to keep order in Paris during bombings.
The European Ombudsman, a sort of conduct guard for E.U. institutions, "spent quite a lot of time investigating this, and in the end ruled that we had to release the data," says Martin Harvey-Allchurch, EMA's head of communications.
