Sentence examples for fortification up from inspiring English sources

It was like a military fortification up there, with bunkers and pillboxes.

For discussions of fortification up to the modern era, see military technology.

We added 4 g of powder per mL, which induces a significant energy and protein fortification up to 80 kcal and 2.2 g/100 mL respectively.

When the rapid growth of the city and the further expansion of the fortifications (up to the Käfigturm) relegated the tower to second-line status at around 1270 75, it was heightened by 7 m to overlook the surrounding houses.

I am back from a week off and shall man these fortifications up until the Sunday after Thanksgiving, which "doesn't or should not count" as a Sunday for the purposes of assembling a group of mostly dumb people to make noises about politics.

Offa's Dyke, a linear fortification thrown up in the late eighth century to protect the Mercian kingdom from the Welsh, runs through woodland for much of its way.

He ordered removal of the fortifications set up between the previous states because they served only as obstacles to internal movements and administration.

Two Swiss travellers — hearty types in hiking boots, who had come to the island to look at Stone Age fortifications — turned up in the village one day, and decided that it might be interesting to join us in the surf.

A few miles later was the Maginot Line, an Angkor Wat of pointless fortifications swallowed up by forest, originally constructed at huge expense in the 1930s to keep the Germans from ever even thinking about stepping over the border as they'd done in the invasion of 1914.

In 127BC, General Wei Qing invaded the much-contested Ordos region as far as the Qin fortifications set up by Meng Tian.

Based on the 'ring model', the fortifications took up an area of 80 ha, making Tvrđa the largest fortress on the border with the Ottoman Empire.