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coast guards

n. (coast guard English)

Usage examples of "coast guards".

To own the coast guards, customs, and police of the new state, to issue diplomatic passports at will, to have diplomatic luggage sent to the States, to build refineries and store depots here in complete freedom, to set up laundering banks with impunity—.

She took off flashing, glowing and smoking like a UFO, and within a couple of minutes we could hear her greeting the coast guards with an enthusiasm that was obscene at that time of the morning.

Eliot explains, cheerfully, that this lifeboat was invented back in the old days, when they had navies and coast guards that would come and rescue stranded travelers.

I had hoped that we could notify the coast guards that the Maldah is in distress.

Disaster-focused organizations such as coast guards and the Red Cross functioned meritoriously.

The Coast Guards and the Air Force have put out all they've got, but nothing's shown yet.

The Canadian and American Coast Guards keep widening the search area without finding anything.

The coast guards wouldn't have to spend so much time watching liquor ships, and dope-smuggling up the coast wasn't going to be gravy any more.

In one case, Spanish coast guards seized Robert Jenkins, master of the British merchant ship Rebecca, and cut off his ear during an interrogation.