guardhouse


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a military facility that serves as the headquarters for military police and in which military prisoners can be detained

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So there are: (1) "Governmentality", concerned with the official use of architecture and urban management in the post-Soeharto era to reinforce some new sense of social and political behaviour (new "democratic" manipulation); (2) "Remembering and forgetting", on architecture's ability or otherwise to trigger memory, most notably of one's own historical violence against others as one small step towards reconciliation; then (3) "Reminiscences", re-thinking the colonial past, its destruction of old hierarchies and imaginings, and the violent construction of images of non-violence and normalcy; finally (4) "Mental nebulae" which, despite the somewhat opaque title, deals with colonial and postcolonial hang-overs to institutions of the everyday--the mosque and the guardhouse.
The leader remained at the guardhouse, watching CCTV feeds from all around the campus and staying in touch with the other officers via walkie-talkie.
Servicemen discovered his body near a guardhouse on the base shortly before 7am on Wednesday.
* Roadway and barrier systems, such as a guardhouse
Wayne sat in the glass guardhouse at the edge of the parking lot sniffing the dye in his new gray uniform.
Behind are the lower blocks which contain the commercial and visa sections, guardhouse, and some of the recreation facilities -- there is a kindergarten and medical centre as well as swimming pool, gym and social club.
On the other hand, a few edifices --notably Schinkel's Doric Neue Wache or New Guardhouse (1818) won acceptance as a memorial by Nazis, the GDR, and united Germany alike.
When she inadvertently set off the security system by breaking the invisible infra-rad beams, troops alerted by a screeching alarm in the guardhouse were immediately sent to search the vast gardens.
It has seven radial cellhouses connected to a central rotunda which served as an observatory and guardhouse. Like the Auburn system, inmates were to have no communication with fellow prisoners.
Let us dust our nubs beneath the guardhouse beams, but this time you be the crust and I will play the tropical raincoat.
As a youthful member of a student political club, Reuter was arrested when government authorities instituted repressive measures following a student attack on a military guardhouse. He was sentenced to death in 1833, but the sentence was later commuted to 30 years' imprisonment.
Samuel Argall of Virginia decreed that all who failed to attend church service would be imprisoned in the guardhouse, "lying neck and heels in the Corps of Gard ye night following and be a slave ye week following." Sunday dancing, fiddling, card playing, hunting, and fishing were also forbidden.