Sentence examples for tower guard from inspiring English sources

They had also made a metal projectile that could have been fired at the tower guard.

He looked like a tower guard up there or a border patrol agent.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Two more United States soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan on Thursday when an Afghan soldier, apparently in league with a civilian, killed an Afghan tower guard and attacked a barracks with gunfire and a rocket, officials said.

A plot by at least six inmates to use a crossbow to kill a tower guard - or incinerate the tower and then escape from Trenton State Prison over a homemade bridge - has been thwarted, state correction officials said today.

An inmate who attacked a rival with a homemade knife at Attica Correctional Facility was shot and wounded by a tower guard after being warned to drop his weapon, prison officials said yesterday.

The tower guard could not be buried until 12th August because he was trapped under the rubble.

Shots fired by tower guards stopped the six others before they reached the fences.

The 20-minute revolt ended when tower guards fired nine shots in the air and the prisoners dispersed, Mr. Flateau said.

Its soaring Art Deco tower guarded by four cast-iron lead eagles is one of the first things visitors see when ferries land.

On a recent visit in July, an empty tower guarded a set of courtyards covered in gravel with a patchwork of cement slabs where some of the tents used to stand.

But will those who view them there ever feel the anger and awe of a visitor looking over this barren no man's land, where automatic shooting devices awaited the defector who managed to escape the tower guards?