Sentence examples for task is to guard from inspiring English sources

Their main task is to guard the border.

A related task is to guard against the softer forms of unwarranted secret and manipulative control made possible by new technologies.

Prior to the country's independence, this unit was responsible for domestic security, but in the 21st century its chief task is to guard the petroleum and natural gas fields.

Our task was to guard the southern flank of the coalition – I think we did that... Basra has the prospect of hope and development in the future.

One of its primary peacetime tasks is to guard the country's oil fields.

When the Germans began to release Soviet prisoners of war, one of their tasks was to guard the new German death facilities at Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka, where the Jews of Poland were gassed in 1942.

An important task of a democratic society is to guard against the misuse of physical coercion by police.

Nobody anticipated that one of their most important -- and potentially dangerous -- tasks would be to guard Serbia against an Albanian insurgency, rather than protect Kosovo Albanians from Serbian forces.

Mobile-phone-related evidence has proved crucial in tracking down the Madrid bombers.The difficult task for governments will be to guard against terrorism while avoiding swelling the ranks of disgruntled Muslims.

It was easier to forge consensus when the world was divided into the realms of two superpowers and America's main task was to stand guard on the border and keep the Russians at bay.

It was only in 1962 that he secured a permanent position in the kingdom, when he became commander of the national guard, whose task was to protect the royal house.