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Fortify

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To increase the defenses of; to strengthen and secure by military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.

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But the students' union warned that such high prices would "fortify the barriers to entry in higher education for those from less wealthy backgrounds".

Homeowners and merchants are already using sand and bags left over from last year to fortify their own properties.

He remained the same character who, during the 1977 Ulster workers' strike, would step on to a London-Belfast flight laden with loaves of sliced bread for strikebound neighbours at home and fortify himself with miniature bottles of gin during the journey.

Visiting the settlement at Har Homa, Netanyahu vowed to preserve Jerusalem's unity "in all its parts" and said he would "continue to build and fortify" the city to prevent any future division.

And in a last-minute deal the bill added another $46 billion (up from $8 billion in the original version) to fortify the Mexican border, which is already bristling with fences, armed guards and drones, and to beef up systems for checking that firms do not hire illegal workers.

The third is that people use it to heighten or fortify natural scent, and thus advertise sexual attractiveness or availability.All three theories could be true.

But St John-Stevas was willing to fortify tradition with a dose of progress, says Lord Lamont, a former chancellor of the exchequer and a friend for 40 years: "He was above all a Tory romantic.

The firm, which controls perhaps 80% of all e-commerce in China, is expanding into ancillary areas to fortify its position.

Instead he would triple the number of agents on the southern border, quadruple their fleets of helicopters and drones and complete a double-layer border fence: a plan to fortify the status quo.

Allergy tests and desensitisation regimes if ordered by doctors, which is a big if identify and fortify the people most at risk.

And sure enough, this week it was reported that India is to fortify 54 new border posts.

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