Sentence examples for a formidable fortress from inspiring English sources

Xenophobia, white flight, ethnic and religious separatism, anti-welfare attitudes have built a formidable fortress.

For creatures desiring to eat the conch, that is a formidable fortress to breach.

Alongside Clary, Julie Goodyear, Bet Lynch from Corrie, a formidable fortress of a woman who, in character, taught a million northern women in the 1970s and 1980s how to exist, channelling gnarly strength, the beauty in being a battleaxe.

But before it was a wildlife mecca, this 24sqkm volcanic island served as a formidable fortress that housed Colombia's most violent criminals, with stone walls, barbed wire and prison guards acting as only the first line of defence.

On top of the mountain sat a formidable fortress, similarly named Godesburg ("Wotan's Castle"), built in the early 13th century during a contest over the election of two competing archbishops.

Another two companies were positioned to the south of the main position at "Yamada-yama", while the remainder of the regiment was entrenched around the mission itself the "Kanshi-yama where they had established a formidable "fortress", and around the Japanese commander's "Kanshi-yama wheresitheyed on thad3200 festablishedwn as the "Katagiri-yama".

It is at once a pleasure palace built by rulers who imagined that Islamic rule would last forever, and a formidable defensive fortress because they feared it wouldn't.

Outside the formidable fortress built by the occupying forces it is a place of random terror.

This formidable fortress – built by French colonialists – was used to hold captured airmen, who nicknamed it the "Hanoi Hilton".

By late October 1583, most of the Oberstift had fallen, although he still held the Godesburg, located near the villages of Godesberg and Friesdorf, the formidable fortress at Bonn, and the fortified village of Poppelsdorf.

While travellers are most familiar with the Open championship courses -- like the Old Course at St Andrews or Ayrshire's Royal Troon -- Scotland's less-famed courses transport golfers on a journey to the lonely beaches, ancient forests and formidable fortresses.