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severe-looking and .
Therefore Kapodistrias, knowing of the contemporary Greek attitudes, ordered that the whole shipment of potatoes be unloaded in public display on the docks of Nafplion, and placed severe-looking guards guarding it.
The angular building designs and severe-looking city squares of Gotham City evoke the loom and menace present in Lang's Metropolis.

policemen and sat
Once used when policemen sat on watch outside in the street, it has an unusual " hood " designed to protect them from the wind and cold and a drawer underneath where hot coals were placed to provide warmth.

policemen and along
After escaping the city, he was trapped along the Elkhorn River, where the mob, including several policemen from Omaha, shot him more than twenty times.
On 25 January 1952, British forces posted along the Suez Canal engaged in a major confrontation with the police force of Ismailia, resulting in the deaths of forty Egyptian policemen.
The rescue operation, dubbed Operation Jaque, rescued Betancourt along with 14 other hostages ( three Americans and eleven Colombian policemen and soldiers ).
In the very early days of railways, men ( originally called ' policemen ', and is the origin of UK signalmen being referred to as " bob ", " bobby " or " officer ", when train-crew are speaking to them via a signal telephone ) were employed to stand at intervals (" blocks ") along the line with a stopwatch and use hand signals to inform train drivers that a train had passed more or less than a certain number of minutes previously.
In the Futurama episode " Fear of a Bot Planet ", the robotic policemen along with the loudspeaker use the sound samples of " Get the humanoid!
But when the observers reached Gravesend town hall at dawn on election day, McKane, along with a large group of policemen and cronies, confronted them.
There were 2000 policemen posted along the way and 35 vehicles used.
Though first confused, he finds Annabel's police mug shot in the paper along with the robbers, and forms a plan to outfit fifty extras as policemen ( plus a police seargent and captain ).
In what came to be called the Nagasaki Incident two days later in a riot between local, police and Ding ’ s sailors six sailors were killed and 45 wounded, along with five Japanese policemen killed and 16 wounded.
USAF security policemen ( Far left: Amn Marc Joel Berger ) from Tan Son Nhut Air Base, watch for Viet Cong infiltration attempts along the base perimeter, during the Vietnam war.
Mitu was left partially destroyed and some 60 policemen and 10 civilians died along with over 800 guerrilla members.
A number of policemen arrive on the roof, along with Joe's father, the police chief.
General Charles Sandford assembled the state's Seventh Regiment, along with mounted troops, light artillery and hussars, in Washington Square Park, a total of 350 men, who would be added to the 100 policemen outside the theater in support of the 150 inside.

policemen and prevent
Upon which the detective bureau despatched rifle squads to prevent trouble if O'Banion should send his gunmen out to deal with the hijacking policemen.
When the detectives and their prisoner reached St. Louis, Missouri and changed trains, they were guarded by 20 local policemen to prevent a mob rescue attempt.
On live TV, they broke the door to Enkhbayar ’ s residence, where they were met with supporters of Enkhbayar and tried to prevent the policemen from entering, eventually Enkhbayar was detained and taken in by the police.
A group of policemen are at a coach station, in order to prevent the nose from escaping.

policemen and from
The Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest from July 18 to July 22, 2001 was one of the bloodiest protests in Western Europe's recent history, as evidenced by the wounding of hundreds of policemen and civilians forced to lock themselves inside of their homes and the death of a young Genoese anarchist named Carlo Giuliani — who was shot in the face while trying to throw a fire extinguisher on a police car — during two days of violence and rioting by fringe groups supported by the nonchalance of more consistent and peaceful masses of protesters, and the hospitalisation of several of those peaceful demonstrators just mentioned.
Joining him are other competitors including Roper ( John Saxon ), a down-on-his-luck white American playboy-gambler on the run from the mob, and Williams ( Jim Kelly ), an African-American activist on the run after defending himself against two racist white policemen in Los Angeles.
On 22 February 1975, in an ambush in the Lomas de Zamora suburb of Buenos Aires, three policemen ( First Sergeant Nicolás Cardozo, Corporal Roberto Roque Fredes and Constables Eugenio Rodriguez and Abel Pascuzzi ) were killed after their patrol car came under fire from Montoneros guerrillas.
On 12 June 1975, in an ambush in the capital of the Córdoba province, three policemen ( Pedro Ramón Enrico, Carlos Alberto Galíndez y corporal Luis Francisco Rodríguez ) are killed after their patrol car came under fire from two car loads of Montoneros guerrillas.
At the same time, with the underground network of Montoneros militants largely uprooted in the capital of Tucumán province, several hundred ERP militants took the streets in the Argentine city of Córdoba in the last week of August 1975, in an effort to divert attention from the military operations being waged in the jungles and mountains of Tucumán and five policemen were killed as a result, after the police headquarters was attacked with gunfire and the police radio communications center bombed.
The 2nd Airborne Infantry Regiment was also released from garrison duties in the city of Córdoba after the ERP armed uprising that killed 5 policemen there in August 1975 and would achieve similar success against the ERP's Decididos de Córdoba company sent to rekindle the insurgency in Tucumán province.
On 2 July 1976 the Montoneros detonated a powerful bomb in the Argentine Federal Police in Buenos Aires, killing 24 and injuring 66 people. On 10 July 1976, policemen surround and enter a printing house in the San Andrés suburb of Buenos Aires in an effort to free Vicecomodore Roberto Echegoyen from the Montoneros, but the alerted guerrillas shoot their hostage in the head.
A column of 600 armed men ( mainly made up of his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen ) was led by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson ( the Administrator in Rhodesia of the British South Africa Company ( or " Chartered Company ") of which Cecil Rhodes was the Chairman ) over the border from Bechuanaland towards Johannesburg.
At the same time, many thoughtful hippies distanced themselves from the very idea that the way a person dresses could be a reliable signal of who he was — especially after outright criminals such as Charles Manson began to adopt superficial hippie characteristics, and also after plainclothes policemen started to " dress like hippies " in order to divide and conquer legitimate members of the counter-culture.
As many homosexual men worked in theatrical entertainment it was also used amongst the gay subculture, at a time when homosexual acts were illegal, to disguise homosexual activity from hostile outsiders and undercover policemen.
Towards the end of the reign of Alexander II, the government, in order to preserve order in the country districts, also created a special class of mounted rural policemen ( uryadniks, from uriad, order ), who, in a time without habeas corpus, were armed with power to arrest all suspects on the spot.
Around 9 p. m. a team from the Special Operations Group of the Tasmania Police had arrived and were eventually able to assist in removing the policemen from the ditch to safety by using the cover of darkness, riot shields and bulletproof jackets.
The couple get a lift to her aunt's cabin from the policemen.
On board, he meets Eve Kendall ( Eva Marie Saint ), who hides Thornhill from policemen searching the train.
The eponymous hit man of the title ( actually a German, played by Karl Scheydt ) is a cold-blooded contract killer, who returns from Vietnam to his native Munich, where he is hired by three renegade policemen to do away with a number of undesirables.
When Level decides to prosecute the policemen and initiates an investigation, he receives threats and intimidation from those wanting to stop the investigation.
The prison is located just yards from the scene of the Massacre of Braybrook Street in 1966, in which three policemen were shot dead by three armed men after stopping their suspicious car.
This was further promoted by Nazi officials through secret orders that prohibited policemen and soldiers from interfering in favor of the enemy in conflicts between civilians and allies forces, or prosecuting civilians who engaged in such acts.
:" Apart from whatever may be the general wish of the Zulu nation, it seems to me that the seizure of the two refugee women in British territory by an armed force crossing an unmistakable and well known boundary line, and carrying them off and murdering them with contemptuous disregard for the remonstrances of the Natal policemen, is itself an insult and a violation of British territory which cannot be passed over, and unless apologised and atoned for by compliance with the Lieutenant Governor ’ s demands, that the leaders of the murderous gangs shall be given up to justice, it will be necessary to send to the Zulu King an ultimatum which must put an end to pacific relations with our neighbours.
On November 1, 1907, Legrasse had led a party of policemen in search of several women and children who disappeared from a squatter community.
The same thing happened once more for the second match, with the Swedish team, made up of policemen from Stockholm, arriving to find that the Austrian team had not arrived.
In British English the term " short trousers " is used, but only for shorts that are a short version of real trousers, e. g. tailored shorts, often lined, as typically worn as part of school uniform for boys up to their early-to-middle teens from roughly 1920 to 1980 ( and still in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand and South Africa ), and by servicemen and policemen posted overseas to tropical climates.

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