Sentences with phrase «military guard of honour»

Michael Gove, George Osborne and Chris Huhne stood earlier as Mr Cameron inspected a military guard of honour.

Not exact matches

Long years in public view have trained him in the art of maintaining stillness and dignity while speeches are made and greetings are exchanged, but he still doesn't look quite at home with military bands and official formality; he walked nicely along the guard of honour but was much smaller than all of them.

The honour guard was made up of representatives of the three branches of the military, army, navy and air force.

Fani - Kayode said it was sad that Buhari could also not inspect the guard of honour mounted for him by the military at the airport when he arrived in the country, alleging also that Buhari could not afford to do a six - minute live broadcast to Nigerians when he arrived, but chose to do a recorded broadcast.