What's the difference between bodyguard and praetorian?
Bodyguard
Definition:
(n.) A guard to protect or defend the person; a lifeguard.
(n.) Retinue; attendance; following.
Example Sentences:
(1) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
(2) After two bodyguards of British ambassador Dominic Asquith were wounded in a rocket attack on the UK consulate, London closed its mission down.
(3) Coulibaly protected Ouattara's wife from 1990 to 1993 when he was head of her bodyguard corps.
(4) All this while, 15 moai statues stand directly behind us, watching over us like bodyguards.
(5) We will all be martyred in this fight.” Attempted coup in Turkey: what we know so far Read more He sent his bodyguard to fetch his personal gun.
(6) "His driver was built like a bodyguard, had a mouthful of gold teeth and when I asked where he was from he answered, enigmatically, 'From up north'," said Mr Galloway.
(7) In October that year, two Sikh bodyguards to Indira Gandhi, the Indian prime minister, assassinated her, sparking anti-Sikh riots that killed more than 3,000 people.
(8) During two new London West End musicals – The Bodyguard and Viva Forever!
(9) Half a dozen bodyguards fan out from the trucks, and when they are in position, the Ace slowly climbs down from the driving seat of his gleaming landcruiser.
(10) He even served as a bodyguard at times, wading into crowds to grab protesters and facing misdemeanor criminal charges over allegedly manhandling a reporter.
(11) His phone’s contact list, prosecutors alleged, included the numbers of college friends and business associates, Hezbollah officials and bodyguards, family members as well as supposed girlfriends.
(12) VIPs, VVIPs or even VVVIPs – almost all government officials – can receive perks ranging from free housing in listed villas with staff paid by the government, bodyguards who act as personal assistants, free flights, unobstructed passage through airports or train stations as well as a significant degree of de facto legal impunity.
(13) Six of Barakat’s bodyguards were wounded, as well as two drivers and a passerby, Egypt’s health ministry told the Guardian.
(14) His monstrous wardrobe, his entourages of 300 or 400 ferried in four aeroplanes, his huge bedouin tent, complete with accompanying camel, pitched in public parks or in the grounds of five-star hotels – and his bodyguards of gun-toting young women, who, though by no means hiding their charms beneath demure Islamic veils, were all supposedly virgins, and sworn to give their lives for their leader.
(15) Hollywood films are routinely released in the world's most populous nation with offending material excised from the final cut: James Bond movie Skyfall arrived in January with references to Chinese torture of British agents and a scene in which a hitman shoots a Chinese bodyguard in Shanghai removed or revised.
(16) Muhammad Abd Al Rahman Awn Al-Shamrani had spent 14 years in Guantánamo, where he was held without trial and was suspected of being an al-Qaida member who “possibly” worked as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, according to his leaked prisoner file.
(17) She lives in a series of safe houses run by supporters, travels with bodyguards, wears a burqa and does not attend public meetingsliving in fear for her life.
(18) There were uniformed and plainclothed policemen, bodyguards for Lars that are with him 24 hours a day,” said Kolek.
(19) All 11 candidates have been issued with police bodyguards and a million-dollar fleet of bulletproof 4x4s; they are expected to get government helicopter rides to areas where the roads are too risky even for well prepared and protected convoys.
(20) He now tells only a handful of people where he intends to spend the night and travels in a convoy of 15 black Mercedes SUVs, with bodyguards, advisers, armed police and ministers.
Praetorian
Definition:
(a.) See Pretorian.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anna Jefferson Brought into the CQC to stiffen its spine, media manager Anna Jefferson gained a reputation as being part of the management's praetorian guard.
(2) They are surrounded by a praetorian guard of public relations and project consultants hired with £253m of taxpayers' money .
(3) Danny Alexander is the boy who stands on George Osborne's burning deck and Vince Cable is the self-appointed captain of David Cameron's praetorian guard.
(4) The biggest transgressor seems to be the education secretary, Michael Gove, who has assembled a praetorian guard of sympathisers.
(5) As Gordon Brown gathered with his praetorian guard of New Labour inside No 10 this afternoon, there was an intense frustration – with the Liberal Democrats , with sections of his own party and, lastly, with the Queen.
(6) He set about co-opting key institutions left behind by the Americans; the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, which was soon stacked with officials from his Dawa party, and Iraq's elite special forces unit, which soon became his praetorian guard.
(7) And unlike the government's praetorian guard in the media, ministers like Francis Maude , who declined to join the attack on the union movement, understand that it may yet prove to be a dangerous opponent.
(8) A statue of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guard, is pulled down after his fall.
(9) Fiona Hill, formerly Cunningham, who lost her official role in May’s praetorian guard as a result of their last major public clash with Gove, is now back by May’s side.
(10) David Bogle, chief executive of Hightown Praetorian HA , argues that social landlords could make considerable savings if more of their bank borrowings were at floating rates of interest.
(11) He just could not help himself.” Caligula told a captain in the Praetorian guard that he sounded like a girl.
(12) Supporters of David Cameron are contacting loyalists to ask them to form a “praetorian guard” to take to the airwaves in support of the prime minister immediately after the general election if the Tories fail to secure a decisive lead in parliamentary seats.
(13) In interviews, Bundy had used the language of the "sovereign citizen" movement as a rallying call, beckoning passionate support from members of the Oath Keepers, the White Mountain Militia and the Praetorian Guard.
(14) Stewart Jackson, the MP for Peterborough, wrote on Twitter : “Fallon absolutely right to use the word ‘swamped’ about ‘some’ immigration hotspots despite what teenage spin doctors at No 10 might say.” Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, told the Daily Mail: “What the Old Etonian praetorian guard around the prime minister have done shows how out of touch they are, and how in touch Michael Fallon is.
(15) Along with Ed Balls and Chuka Umunna, Alexander has formed a kind of corporate praetorian guard around Miliband to pacify the City and CBI and rein in the Labour leader’s instincts for building a new economic model in a post-crash world.
(16) But Maude insisted measures had been put in place to prevent the development of “Praetorian guards” within departments where officials were loyal only to their political bosses.
(17) An MP contacted by Cameron loyalists One well-placed MP who has been contacted by the Cameron loyalists told the Guardian: “There is an attempt to form a praetorian guard round David.
(18) Pirie's report became the central charter of the doctrine we now call Thatcherism, whose praetorian guard called itself the No Turning Back group .
(19) As Ken Clarke did in 1990 when his colleagues ummed and ahed and allowed themselves to be browbeaten by Margaret Thatcher and her praetorian guard, so Purnell has said the previously unsayable - that the prime minister must go.
(20) IRGC, the Islamic Republic’s praetorian guard, is suspicious of US military activity near Iran’s borders and appears to be sticking to a familiar posture in the Gulf that predates last year’s nuclear accord between Iran and six world powers, including the United States.