Sentence examples for alcatraz of from inspiring English sources

(The press calls the hotel the "Alcatraz" of North Korea).

Unsurprisingly, nobody wanted to holiday on the "Alcatraz of Brazil", so the island remained undeveloped.

In 1939, the same year John Garfield starred in the movie "Blackwell's Island — Alcatraz of the East," a hospital for chronic diseases opened on the site.

The "Alcatraz of the Rockies" holds more than 30 terrorists, including Zacarias Moussaoui, a 9/11 conspirator, and Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber".

She previously described the academy as "the Alcatraz of the world of education" but that she found the children astonishingly polite despite their sometimes chaotic lives.

ADX Florence, which is known as "the Alcatraz of the Rockies", is designed to house inmates who are too dangerous for other facilities, or risks to national security.

The list is impressive: among those names were Saul Williams, Maxida Marak, Koolaid and the former chairman of the American Indian Movement, John Trudell, the activist behind the occupation of Alcatraz, one of the most successful American Indian protests of the 20th century.

Designs for the asylum departed from comic interpretations of a large mansion and instead developed an entire island, with hints of Alcatraz prison, composed of multiple buildings to allow for greater variety and exploration.

In Alcatraz, each of the 11 men were kept in solitary confinement.

The restored gardens of Alcatraz, all 50,000 square feet of them, are "a treasure trove of documentary history" and a great place for garden archaeology, Mr. Weideman said in a telephone interview.

"The occupation of Alcatraz launched an unparalleled wave of modern day American Indian activism," said Troy Johnson, professor of American Indian studies at California State University, Long Beach, and author of several books about those 19 months on Alcatraz.