Sentence examples for In impregnable from inspiring English sources

That sense of responsibility, and Hock's modest contribution to the welfare of a people he was once genuinely fond of, has been replaced by a harsher mode of operation, run by coldhearted contractors living apart in impregnable compounds.

Phrasing complicated concepts in impregnable language streamlines and often side-steps public acceptance entirely so that we're typically unaware anything is happening outside our tiny bubble of attention, comforted by familiar white noise in the background, tasting tap water.

After 15 days of desperate fighting (the Battle of the Yser), the Nieuwpoort sluices were flooded and checked the Germans; the Allies then succeeded in establishing themselves in an impregnable position on the river's left bank.

I am willing to bet any amount of money that Russo-bad guys will not get a chance to kill Keanu's cute little doggie in John Wick 2 because the actor will keep Fido out of the line of fire, perhaps by lodging him in an impregnable kennel or hiding him in a panic room while he goes out to butcher what few mobsters he didn't liquidate in the original film.

Drivers now wear flameproof coveralls and ride in seemingly impregnable steel cages.

In 1090 Ḥasan gained the castle of Alamūt in the Elburz Mountains, and the order's principal cells were thereafter situated, so far as possible, in similar impregnable mountain strongholds.

On December 13 he ordered a series of 16 hopeless, piecemeal frontal assaults across open ground against Lee's army of 78,513 troops, drawn up in an impregnable position atop high ground and behind a stone wall.

He knew how his behavior estranged him from others, but he seemed to accept the backdrafts of guilt and shame as normal weather in the impregnable mental zone from which his art flowed.

To wit: the gang gets wind of a fabulous treasure (like bundles of money) held in some impregnable fortress (like a bank) and, after executing some wondrously clever maneuvers to steal the prize, are thrown off their game through some incredible stroke of hilarious bad luck.

The enemy is barricaded in his impregnable island city, inaccessible by "hilly fortifications and mounted missiles and weaponry" and unapproachable with "moats of water and fire and belts of stormy winds" (1 ).

It is rather like World War I, when stubbornly obsolescent generals wasted millions of lives throwing infantry against impregnable in-depth defenses.