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It will become safer still in the coming years, provided that governments, plant operators, and regulators do not drop their guard.
But this approach is risky – akin to paying the fox to guard the hen house.
Saddam's security system for Baghdad includes the Special Republican Guard, whose 16,000 men are Iraq's most disciplined, best equipped troops.
The men of the Special Republican Guard are supposed to be loyal because they are recruited largely from Saddam's own al-Bu Nasir tribe around Tikrit.
But they are also a true praetorian guard, like their Roman predecessors.
Recently, Saddam moved the "non-special" Republican Guard into Baghdad.
The US employs more than 20,000 Border Patrol agents; but even if they were all on duty at the same time, each would need to guard a 1,700-foot section of the border.
All the while, a Chinese warship stood guard.
But Solidarity’s old guard has also been cast aside.
Central Banking’s New FaceLONDON – A changing of the guard is underway at many of the world’s leading central banks.
We should all be on guard against the risk of outdated influences affecting our behaviors and decisions.
Building codes already guard against dangers like fire and earthquakes.
Even the armed bandits who waylay relief supplies – making necessary a guard of soldiers with automatic weapons, standing every few hundred yards – cannot destroy this moment.
Fully aware of its growing importance in an oil-starved world, Libya will use that advantage to the full and it will no doubt guard, with Gaddafi at the forefront, its sovereign rights vociferously and assiduously.
Judging by current market movements and conditions, the world could be caught off guard by three potentially transformative developments.
Dogs from breeds that were used to hunt or guard sheep often suffer from being unable to follow their instincts.
Avoiding new tension with Taiwan appears to have been a calculated decision by China’s leaders as they begin their own – perhaps not yet fully settled – changing of the guard.
The increase in international cooperation that this approach requires would be difficult to achieve, because nations jealously guard their autonomy over police and security matters.
Russia’s blockade of the Kerch Strait – the entry point to the strategically important Sea of Azov – and military buildup on Crimea indicate that Europe cannot let down its guard.
Consider the Senkaku incident in 2010, when, after Japan arrested the crew of a Chinese trawler that had rammed a Japanese coast guard vessel, China escalated its economic reprisals.
Some restaurants greet their customers with a guard who brusquely asks what they want, as if they came to buy stamps, not to have dinner.
Of course, the guards know that their job is to ensure that everyone is safe and comfortable, but the Gulag-type notion of what a guard does is too embedded to be removed.
For one hour each day, they were allowed into an “exercise block,” a nine-foot (2.7 meters), tin-lined cube, with a barbed-wire roof and a guard post on top.
Eventually, however, India has no choice: there are already sporadic riots over water shortage, while water tankers move under armed guard in some cities, and virulent conflicts arise between communities over water-sharing.
On both counts, however, Norway has recently lowered its guard and is heading for trouble.
Both Italy and Germany thus have a strong interest in finding a European approach, one that strengthens the EU’s capacity to guard its external borders, perhaps via a European Coast Guard, while distributing the burden of accepting refugees more equitably across the Union.
They lack any power of compulsion, so there is no need to guard against the abuse of press power.
The revolts themselves caught seasoned observers, even Arab leaders, off guard.
Longtime regime opponents, too, were caught off guard.
In 1959, Peres moved to full-time politics, supporting Ben-Gurion in his conflict with Labor’s old guard.
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