Sentence examples for an inner defence from inspiring English sources

Certainly as long as Tony Blair is prime minister, the usually stand-offish British are likely to want to be part of an inner defence core.

But poorer, pro-American countries, notably from central and eastern Europe, sense a plot to keep them out of an inner defence group that would be dominated by France and Germany.

The village had been fortified with a line of trenches around the outskirts and an inner defence zone of five pillboxes and all the house cellars, which had been converted into shell-proof dug-outs.

The next day at 19 30 the brigade moved back to man the inner defence line.

The besiegers under Regent Mar had only seven guns, and while they did manage to breach the Flodden Wall, the inner defences were too strong for an assault.

The inner defences are strongest at this point, with a cluster of towers connected by a thick wall.

The barbican today is only half of its original height, and includes its own gate, designed to trap intruders within the inner defences.

Around 16:45 the field artillery batteries of Józef Bem were free to leave the safety of the inner defences, return to the battlefield, and open fire on the Grand Battery.

During his early reign, Hongwu set up the "eight outer garrisons" close to the steppe and an inner line of forts more suitable for defence.

It consisted of a square keep (which may have been stone, or a wooden superstructure on stone foundations) and its defences and an outer and an inner bailey.

The castle has a concentric design, with one line of defences enclosed by another, forming an inner and outer ward; the outer wall was originally somewhat taller than today.