Does anyone go near the word "intelligent" without an armed escort these days?

As for the armed escorts, they are also plain common sense.

"A husband who forced you to leave your home under armed escort."

He had come with an armed and uniformed escort of two men.

They took them down, under armed escort, to the meeting hall at the far end of the deck.

The painting also had an armed military escort to the airport.

It took an armed escort to get him off his boat after trying to leave for two days.

"Though I'd sleep better if we had an armed escort."

I couldn't afford to give him an armed escort just to take a walk outside; it was much too dangerous.

And unless we come up with some sort of armed escort, we'll never have a peaceful night's sleep.