Sentence examples for defense wall from inspiring English sources

Finally, I inquired from some Ghanaian civil engineers about the cost of constructing a 1-meter-by-1-meter sea defense wall.

The landscaper Niek Roozen incorporated a lake, local woodlands and the late 19th-century Geniedijk defense wall into the 160-acre fairground.

I told them we were investigating the rate of sea erosion in the community, and that the government wanted that information to help it construct a sea defense wall along the coast!

He completed and extended fortifications begun by his father, built a great moat and a new outer defense wall, paved the ceremonial Processional Way with limestone, rebuilt and embellished the principal temples, and cut canals.

On defense, Wall, 5 feet 8 inches, joins the newcomers Courtney Kennedy, 22, of the University of Minnesota and Nicole Uliaz, 20, of the University of Wisconsin, both of whom are 5-9.

Oh my, what a wonderful first line of defense Wall Street's overblown and much vaunted system of regulation provides.

Several Thessalian settlements were surrounded by defense walls or ditches.

Massive Bronze Age defense walls survived at Mycenae and elsewhere on the mainland; they were called Cyclopean because, according to Greek tradition, the Cyclopes had built them.

Even the Great Wall is really more an idea of a structure than a physical structure — most of those defense walls are nothing more than tamped earth, a few feet tall.

Gazing out a window at the remains of the city's 18th-century defense walls, I read about how the French, unlike the British, rarely tried to change Indian society or the caste system, and explicitly cut the city up — block by block, house by house — according to ethnicity.

The Incan mountain citadel is surrounded by a tropical forest and is memorable for its engineered roads, buildings and defense walls.