armor-plated

• “A witness said the security forces arrived in the morning with armor-plated vehicles and shot at the women, who were waving palm fronds in protest against Ivory Coast's embattled president, Laurent Gbagbo.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Female Marchers Killed in Ivory Coast

• “If "Fast Five" had been rated by the EPA instead of the MPAA—the Motion Picture Association of America gave it a PG, notwithstanding rampant road rage—the average MPG would have been abysmal, what with vroom-vrooming muscle cars, screeching exotics and an armor-plated monster that makes the Hummer look demure.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Five': A Series Wakes Up at the Wheel

• “American conservatives have spent the last few decades trying to make America into the kind of country where a minority can shut itself up into homogeneous gated communities, defend itself with guns against intruders, and drive to work in SUVs that provide massive armor-plated protection against contact of any kind with the teeming polyglot of America outside.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie

• “Franklin Roosevelt logged 243,827 train miles, mostly aboard the armor-plated U.S. No.”

  The Wall Street Journal: When a Gulfstream V Just Won't Do, Try Riding Like a Rail Baron

• “Friday night, August 9, Donovan and Knox boarded the armor-plated presidential train at Hyde Park, which carried Roosevelt and the large White House entourage of aides, Secret Service agents, and reporters always following him.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wild Bill Donovan

• “Lucky, for once, to hold a real world object in the purview of your self-substantiation, the speeding taxi, super-fly, armor-plated insect god can only act as mirror in the beading rain, cancelling out any offer of assurance.”

  Fictionaut: The Mockingbird Sings

• “The scene was straight from HBO, a gathering of 200 law officers, two Black Hawk helicopters, two armor-plated vehicles and a surveillance airplane mistaken for a mad bomber.”

  Ask an old gringo: symbolism, police, education, and the Virgin

• “He had six legs, an armor-plated back, and he liked to eat rotting food.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Fine Art of Where to Start

• “The police say they have already used new tactics, such as driving armor-plated vehicles towards crowds to disperse them.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Beleaguered U.K. Police Step Up Response

• “Plans to buy a $45 million Bombardier jet in 2002 were shelved but the king's penchant for heavy metal persists, with a purchase of ten BMWs (one for each of his wives) in 2005 and 20 armor-plated Mercedes last year.”

  The Huffington Post: Alex Matthews: Will the Despot King of Swaziland Last?

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