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  • noun Plural form of guardpost.

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Examples

  • Both ZSM and LWRP have distributed the grants from UNESCO and supplies funded by USAID to ICCN guardposts.

    Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo 2008

  • And, although not all the protection strategies have been adopted, we note that – in addition to the perimeter guardposts, manned by Romanian infantry, which have the latest surveillance and CCTV equipment - there is a battery of Danish weapon-locating radars similar to our Mamba sets and elements of an American airborne forces unit.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Helen 2007

  • Beyond the orchards lay a thick mud-brick outer wall studded with watch-towers and guardposts.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • However, UN soldiers have deployed armoured vehicles at some road junctions and guardposts with sandbags, as well as positions in front of property owned by Bemba that came under attack in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Unfortunately, groused the dwarf to himself, their con - cept of governing seems to involve little more than mooch - ing off the towns and villages unlucky enough to host their temples and guardposts.

    Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003

  • Uncle Doj had appointed himself sergeant of the guard and was making a circuit of the four guardposts.

    Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000

  • There were still two sturdily built guardposts here, one on either side of the bridge, to prove that Errold's Grove had once been considered an important border town.

    Owlflight Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • A watchtower and guardposts were erected this week on the road leading to nearby Rammulotsi township and booms were installed on all three roads into Viljoenskroon, a small town about 300km north of Bloemfontein.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Council from erecting roadblocks, watchtowers and guardposts at the entrance to the Orange Free State town in preparation for the election next week.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Unfortunately, groused the dwarf to himself, their con - cept of governing seems to involve little more than mooch - ing off the towns and villages unlucky enough to host their temples and guardposts.

    Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990

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