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167 examples of Guarded in a sentence

Perhaps because so many other taboos have fallen, the taboo on sex with children is guarded with almost fanatical zeal.
Fortunately, innovation, investor pressure, the growth of green finance, and falling renewable-energy prices all give cause for guarded optimism.
The agreements that govern the pooling and exchange of intelligence among these governments remain closely guarded secrets.
Despite this failure, and the sterility it betokens, I still believe that those of us who want to can make an effort to highlight the spiritual dimension and spiritual origin of the values guarded by the United Nations, and to translate those values into the organization's practical activities.
Churchill’s writings may be biased, but they offer remarkable inside information and details that are not readily inferred from memos and briefs, which usually are incomplete and guarded in style.
The mayhem began to abate only when Gbagbo was removed from power and taken prisoner after French and UN ground troops, armored vehicles, and helicopters bombarded the presidential palace where he was guarded by forces that remained loyal to him.
The world no longer adheres to the static Cold War order, with two blocs locked in open but guarded confrontation.
The contracts between drug companies and key actors in the health-care system are closely guarded secrets, and even government entities and private insurers are not permitted to see the full terms.
Everything was prohibited, locked, and guarded.
ISIS prisoners have escaped from some prisons once guarded by Kurds.
As the scion of a dynasty that has jealously guarded the North’s independence for 70 years, Kim, like his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, the state’s founder, regards national self-reliance as sacrosanct.
The fact that the Japanese hero was actually named Kim Sin-rak and was born in North Korea had to be kept a closely guarded secret.
(Labor-market rules remain a jealously guarded national competence, so the EU could not have ordered them to do so.)
He was nine years old and quite a child, but he knew his soul, it was dear to him, and he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and never let anyone enter his heart without the key of love.
Armed pickets guarded the pits, and there were soldiers before every engine.
The Company, who were being ruined by this death of work, talked of hiring miners from the Borinage, on the Belgian frontier, but did not dare; so that the battle continued as before between the colliers, who were shut up at home, and the dead pits guarded by soldiery.
There, all about us, I swear that the shores and ice floes were crowded with marine mammals as far as the eye could see, and I involuntarily looked around for old Proteus, that mythological shepherd who guarded King Neptune's immense flocks.
'Yes, but this is a lucky day for Valenod, who is sentencing me ...I am too closely guarded for Mathilde to be able to effect my escape, like Madame de Lavalette .
One golden morning of a sunny day, I leant against the low stone wall that guarded a little village church, and I smoked, and drank in deep, calm gladness from the sweet, restful scene - the grey old church with its clustering ivy and its quaint carved wooden porch, the white lane winding down the hill between tall rows of elms, the thatched-roof cottages peeping above their trim-kept hedges, the silver river in the hollow, the wooded hills beyond!
Still Birch survived, and still he continued his trade, though compelled to be very guarded in his movements, especially whenever he approached the northern boundaries of the county; or in other words, the neighborhood of the American lines.
"So lately!" cried the other in surprise: then correcting his manner, by assuming a more guarded air, he continued, "Could you pass the pickets at so late an hour?""I did," was the laconic reply.
Mr. Wharton received this new guest with the guarded caution that distinguished his manner, and Dunwoodie left the room to seek the bedside of his friend.
Mr. Wharton did not require the use of his lands for the purposes of subsistence; and he willingly adopted the guarded practice of the day, limiting his attention to such articles as were soon to be consumed within his own walls, or could be easily secreted from the prying eyes of the foragers.
"Well, sir," said the major to the sentinel who guarded the door, "I trust you have your prisoner in safety."
Frances had followed the party which guarded her brother, at a distance; and as they vanished from her sight, she felt deserted by all that she most prized in this world.
The royal army held the two points of land that commanded the southern entrance of the river into the mountains; but all the remaining passes were guarded by the Americans.
At the intercession of Dunwoodie, orders had been given to the sentinel who guarded the door of Henry's room, that the members of the prisoner's family should, at all times, have free access to his apartment.
On their right, the regiment of foot, that we have already mentioned, lay, in tents; and the sentinels who guarded their encampment were to be seen moving with measured tread under the hills themselves.
Men's lives and fortunes hang upon slender threads, and nothing must be left to accident that can be guarded against.
The peddler now became more guarded in the manner in which they proceeded, and took divers precautions to prevent meeting any moving parts of the Americans.
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