Sentence examples for fortification from inspiring English sources

What to do Climb to the top of the Galata Tower, a medieval fortification, for 360-degree views of the city.

Hadrian's Wall This 84-mile walk, from Wallsend on Tyne to Bowness-on-Solway, follows the remains of the second-century fortification.

Lerner claimed Hamas was using civilians as a last line of fortification.

Datong's fortification, heavily damaged but still intact until the mid-19th century, was slowly torn down.

If his armed policemen side with the demonstrators, as they have done in isolated incidents in the past, Mr Arafat would have a hard job quelling the clashes even if he wanted to.The Israeli army issued machineguns and sniper rifles to settlers in the northern West Bank this week, and urged them to help with fencing and fortification work around their settlements.

In 1211 Mongol armies rode round the fortification in Zhangjiakou, the northern gateway to Beijing.

Improvements in training and equipment have led to the fortification of much of the country.

He rebuilt parts of a 3,500-year-old 3,500-year-old 3,500-year-oldng cement and reconstructed fragmentary frescoes to suit his views on Bronze Age religion and palacecs.Evans boldly argued that the Minoans, as he called the early islanders, shunned warfare, conveniently forgetting about the ruined watchtowers and fortification walls he had already identified elsewhere in Crete.

This fortification was raised at great cost to control the river's flow.

The loss of an outer fortification does not impair the resisting faculty, when it is lost early in the day when its defenders have not spent upon it the resources which are needful to defend the citadel.

That concern has led some countries, and the European Union collectively, to put programmes for grain fortification on hold.Dr Bailey and Dr Ayling stress that folic-acid pills are good during pregnancy, and that aspiring mothers should not give them up.