Sentence examples for up to guard from inspiring English sources

Some of the trees that line it have been literally bagged up, to guard against the winter frost.

Since the melting away of the Soviet threat it was set up to guard against, NATO has been striving to find a new reason to stay together.

With hardly a sound, one of the platoons took over the intersection, while another set up to guard the approach to the east.

One Arrow battery has been placed south of Tel Aviv, at an air force base, while a second has been set up to guard the northern coastal cities.

They had waited until the sleepy local police force of two turned up to guard the corpse until the real police could come from the mainland.

This program gives the byte a quick health-check to see whether a copy needs to be retrieved from a back-up tape on another network, probably a long way away, set up to guard against disasters such as earthquakes.

But Aaron Hasson, a teacher, said it was a nice touch that the lions had not gone to waste even if they were not exactly up to guarding the Riverdale library.

South Korean defenses on five coastal islands in the Yellow Sea had been set up primarily to guard against possible amphibious landings by North Korean troops.

Some Christians, historically a vital part of Aleppo's bustling ethnic mix, have taken up arms to guard their neighborhoods and churches.

However, others fear the added security measures far more than they fear costumed revelers, noting anxiety about ramped up efforts to guard against those wearing ghoulish costumes.

They have also set up cooperatives to guard local forests, and to organize fodder production at rates that will not harm the trees.