Employees are usually armed with food and coffee, and work to bond with sales people and interact with potential phone buyers.
There are so many like this in the countryside of Pakistan, usually with armed guards standing outside.
While Mr. Rakhmon has steadily removed such foes from power since then, these former commanders usually protected by their own armed militias still retain influence over Gorno-Badakhshan.
Enterprises that want to grow in and around this region have no interest in armed conflict and are usually better able than diplomats to avoid it.
"The Military Council is totally ready to hand over power immediately and return to its original job protecting the people, if the people want that in a referendum, " Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the head of the usually secretive Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, said on state television.
Modern armed robbers are amateurs, he says, usually badly equipped and often on drugs.
Long prison terms are usually associated with violent crimes (rape, murder, armed robbery).
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Mr. DINO MAHTANI (Reporter, Financial Times): Usually, in the Niger Delta, you have a series of armed groups who crawl the swamps and the rivers, tapping into pipelines, emptying well heads, and bunkering ships.
The image of an armed brigade blocking access to a public building had so far usually been reserved for Libya's legislature, our correspondent said.
The image of an armed brigade blocking access to a public building had so far usually been reserved for Libya's legislature, the BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says.
The armed forces also derive much of their income from their own, usually shady, business activities.
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Local authorities, the armed forces and the NHS are also drawn by the expertise, economies of scale and (usually) better management that private firms offer.
Another flaw was that the initial assessment of the armed groups underestimated their capability as what a senior French diplomat called a "well armed, equipped, trained and determined" force, which apparently tried to hold ground in terrain usually defined by skirmishes and ambushes.
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