These abandoned defensible curtain walls for a fortified refuge, designed to outlast a raid, rather than a sustained siege.
These abandoned defensible curtain walls in favour of a fortified refuge, designed to outlast a raid, rather than a sustained siege.
These houses abandoned the defensible curtain walls of castles, being fortified refuges that were designed to outlast a raid, rather than a sustained siege.
And changing that is a lot harder -- and a lot less defensible -- than repainting your walls or planting different flowers in the yard.
But whoever's cash rolled down the $50 billion pyramid, he or she can take bittersweet solace: at least the Mercedes is a worthy repository of Wall Street loot, more defensible than an $87,000 area rug or an antique commode.
Oberweis targets investment in companies with accelerating growth in sales and profits, little coverage by Wall Street analysts and defensible competitive positions in their respective market niches.
With internal dissent increasing, they joined these new fortifications to existing walls to form a redoubt defensible against attacks from land or sea, which contained a large warehouse into which the extremists moved most of the city's corn supply.
Group E is located to the west of Group C. Group E is largely surrounded by steep ravines; the inhabitants of the city cut the cliffs to make them steeper and more defensible, and reinforced them with a retaining wall.
The better tradition allows Themistocles an archonship in 493, during which he started the walls of the Piraeus, turning it into a defensible harbour, and so first "dared to say that the Athenians must make the sea their domain" (as Thucydides puts it with forgivable exaggeration).
A dragon vein is a ridgeline critical to feng-shui, so the Ming went to the trouble of building elaborate walls farther north, on terrain that was naturally less defensible.
