The Rockefeller Commission report swims in platitudes ("We recommend that parents be more vigilant and aggressive guardians of their children's moral development . . .").

The citation reads in part: "Independent to the bone, he is the vigilant guardian of the nation's well-being.

A member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, Bonner has served as a vigilant guardian of the taxpayers' money, helping to eliminate wasteful and questionable spending.

The vigilant guardian of her mother's sporadic sobriety, Amy eventually responds like a true Marchewka - she flees to Thailand.

With all this he should be fierce and terrible to strangers and all hostile influences, determined and vigorous, increasingly vigilant, the guardian of the threshold.

Nevertheless, he stood there for a long while, a vigilant guardian.

Given these concerns about his record, Mr. Roberts needed to use the hearings to reassure the American people in a substantive way that he would be a vigilant guardian of their rights.

Unto death I am her daughter's most vigilant guardian.

Borough President Fernando Ferrer, a vigilant guardian of the Bronx's image, was not amused.

Hidden mechanical guardians, vigilant and much longer lasting than clay, pounced when we came through.