Sentence examples for erect a fortification from inspiring English sources

Indeed, this vulnerability may have been intentional - its builder Laurence was a newly moneyed member of the upper class, and he may not have wanted to erect a fortification that would have threatened the established Marcher Lords in the region.

Fear of a takeover by mainland interests long ago prompted Jardines' principal shareholders, the British-based Keswick family, descendants of the firm's opium-trading founders, to erect a system of fortifications around the property.

Left of the entrance there is a fortification erected by the Venetians in the early 18th century.

In order to ensure free passage into the Baltic to all nations, Germany shall not erect any fortifications in the area comprised between latitudes 55° 27' N. and 54° 00' N. and longitudes 9°Ê00' E. and 16°Ê00' E. of the meridian of Greenwich, nor install any guns commanding the maritime routes between the North Sea and the Baltic.

Dirk III, the third in the line of the early counts of Holland, conquered much of what is now Zuid-Holland from the bishops of Utrecht; he defeated their forces and an imperial army in 1018 at Vlaardingen, a fortification that he had erected to levy river tolls on traffic in the Meuse (Maas) River delta.

Think of them as a fortification: a password-plus.

In the end, xenophobia is a vulnerability masquerading as a fortification.

The disclosure itself acts as a fortification of sorts, they suggest.

Forgiveness is not a surrender, but a fortification and acquisition of power to heal.

UNICEF also supports vitamin A fortification of cooking oil.

In contrast, in the USA, voluntary fortification of breakfast cereals falls under food safety regulations and a fortification policy statement.