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To fortress

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A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.

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The name was derived from early similarities to fortress turrets.

Whites migrated to fortress communities in the northern suburbs.

In anticipation of the Allied push toward Rome, Hitler ordered that the Gustav Line be upgraded to "fortress strength".

His house, inherited from his grandfather, lay smack inside the Green Zone, which swallowed parts of his neighborhoods as it expanded last year from headquarters to fortress.

But the idea that a democratic president could want to disengage with the rest of the world and to retreat to fortress America, to pull up the drawbridge on a messy world, is the most inexplicably wounding thing of all.

We argue that the proponents of REDD+ (Tanzanian state, aid donors, environmental NGOs) underestimate the agency of forest-reliant communities who have played a major role in the making of the delta landscape and who will certainly resist the injustices they are facing as a result of this shift from community-based resource management to fortress conservation.

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Hundreds flocked to the fortress to visit or stand vigil outside.

Maria Theresa rebuilt the castle on the hill, completing its transformation from medieval bastion to Gothic fortress to Baroque palace.

There will be new pressures for the US to disengage from the Middle East, revert to fortress-style embassies, and accelerate the refocusing of American attention to Asia.

You don't have to ever want to play Dwarf Fortress to enjoy Jonah's story.

He was escorted with five Sikhs to Delhi and confined to the fortress in the city.

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