(1) Most days a crowd of desperate Afghans try to cross the fairy castle-like gate, only to find themselves beaten back by Pakistani soldiers armed with sticks.

(2) As a deluge of rain poured down on the course and a battalion of green staff armed with squeegees fought to keep play in motion, Matthew eventually pleaded with an official that play should be stopped.

(3) A teenager and a seven-year-old boy were injured as 50 men armed with sticks, bottles and baseball bats fought a pitched battle in a Bolton street.

(4) The proportion of troops armed with more accurate, but slower firing, rifles remained low.

(5) I answered, pulling the bag of weapons up and taking an armed rifle out of the bag.

(6) The armed separatist group placed bombs on two high-tension electricity towers run by grid operator Red Electrica.

(7) Payne has rigged a city bus with an explosive device that is armed once the bus goes above 50 miles per hour.

(8) They knew that some of the people inside of this settlement were armed , and perhaps prepared to use those arms.

(9) In the early Western Desert campaigns, PWE operated a few front-line propaganda units, armed with megaphones, to try to persuade Italian troops to desert.

(10) Some 3,000 car-jackings occur every month carried out by people armed with semi-automatic weapons.

(11) The debris scattered onto the concrete floor below on the other side, showering the men holding armed weapons with piercing fragments.

(12) Its comrades argued openly for their ideas, but at the same time there was a clandestine organisation, assisted by the Russian Red Army, preparing for armed struggle.

(13) Soldiers armed with Kalashnikovs and grenade launchers lined the roads into the village.

(14) My asthma would be classed as mild, but I have fought a constant battle with it, armed with my Ventolin puffer and occasionally steroid medication.

(15) Mr. Clinton expanded on the law-enforcement theme, signaling that terrorists need not fear an armed response.

(16) He regards his mail warily and handles packages like armed grenades.

(17) As a result, preparing for armed conflict is no longer only a matter of simply assembling battlefield strength to destroy defined adversaries.

(18) Two green lights appeared on her HUD indicating that two Hornet missiles were armed and ready to launch.

(19) Lots of people knew, but it continued for months until one lowly soldier armed with irrefutable evidence finally blew the whistle.

(20) Similarly, a security system sign may not refer to an actual armed alarm.

(21) They could scarcely have realised it at the time, but the 12-year-old schoolboy and his father were treading the same path as hunters armed with lethal firearms.

(22) You think the looting, rape and armed terror that emerged within hours in New Orleans couldn't happen elsewhere?

(23) The stakes have been set, and weapons are armed , and like we've heard time and time again, we, the gamers will reap the benefits of this extraordinary battle.

(24) Firearms police are better prepared than ever to face the terrifying threat of an armed incident or terrorist attack, according the officer responsible for a new North Yorkshire Police team.

(25) In this series, Kathy, armed only with the tools of science, conducts her own experiments, reviews the latest science and checks her findings with colleagues.

(26) For the first time in his life, the gunman isn't looking at a helpless victim, but at an armed man prepared to kill him.

(27) If we wished to make war, we certainly would not want to fight soldiers armed with blades such as these.

(28) Knowledge that the threat is in place; that nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons are armed and ready to be used.

(29) A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of armed robbery, kidnap, handling stolen goods and firearms offences.

(30) No one in West Yorkshire Police will be prosecuted over the shooting of a former soldier armed with an airgun, it was announced yesterday.