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Despite chronic electricity shortages across North Korea, areas around electric fences along the border with China are brightly lit so that guard posts can easily spot potential defectors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
He said authorities had created a commission to recover weapons and military equipment issued to members of the presidential guard.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Many considered it a prudent move to guard against the risk that inflation will remain higher than anticipated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Williams, Thybulle, second-year forward Adou Thiero and guard Quentin Grimes were among the players who guarded the ball full court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The question obviously caught Anna May off guard.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
"The border guards started running around and shouting "Run!
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
They are nonmedical prison guards, and they are doing it from a separate room.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
Shudder presents director Nicholas Pineda’s found-footage film about security guards at an old institution with a chilling past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
As armed guards maintained a cordon around a nearby village, Washington questioned the decision to release on bail five men arrested near the Royal Air Force Fairford base in southwest England.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
The scowls and threats of the guards when they arrived daunted us not at all.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Whether intentionally guarded or simply transmitted within tight social networks, the techniques were not widely shared.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Williams, Thybulle, second-year forward Adou Thiero and guard Quentin Grimes were among the players who guarded the ball full court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Xi is the guarded half of the pairing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
And with Arteta keen to protect the teenager, he was guarded around whether it may be too early to send Dowman out on loan.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
At the camps, the young inmates were guarded by police officers, soldiers, and freshly recruited Hitler Youth leaders.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The U.K. government says its bases are safe and it is currently in the process of changing the law so that military personnel guarding bases can track, jam and shoot down drones from afar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Free trains are being laid on to the capital for the occasion, with some 750 police guarding the centre of Sofia during the handover ceremony.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
He told them he wants a "single set of global principles and standards that are very much about unlocking the full potential whilst guarding against the risks".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
What Telluride had been guarding so carefully was “You Can See Everything,” a nearly three-hour documentary about convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, co-directed by Fielder and documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
With enemy forces advancing, the Joint Chiefs requested permission to broaden the mission from merely guarding the base to engaging in what was described as “limited offensive operations.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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