Sentence examples for fortress based from inspiring English sources

Fortress, based in New York, bid $40 a share for Stelmar.

With various refinements, the early modern fortress, based on a combination of the sunken profile and bastioned trace, remained the basic form of permanent fortification until the American Civil War, which saw the first extensive use of heavy rifled cannon made of high-quality cast iron.

"We were frightened when we were flying – all of the time, all of us," recalls Clarence Rowntree who, as a 20-year-old gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress, was based at Kimbolton airbase in Cambridgeshire.

Fortress Re, based in nearby Burlington, had dominated a critical niche of the commercial aviation reinsurance business, while a sister company, a Bermuda-chartered reinsurer called Carolina Re, was distributing a small fortune in dividends to Sabbah and his partner, Kenneth Kornfeld.

The first phase of Tvrđa's conversion into a Baroque fortress was based on the plan devised by the engineer Mathias von Kaiserfeld from 1691.

Shares in Fortress, which is based in New York, fell 3.58 percent to close at $4.04 on Thursday.

Fortress, which is based in New York, was started in 1998 by five former executives of Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs.

If Mapeley, now part of the US offshore Fortress group, was based in Britain rather than Bermuda, the tax coffers would be swelled by £184m.

"Suram Fortress" takes as its starting point a Georgian legend about the construction of a fortress; "Ashik Kerib" is based on a Mikhail Lermontov tale of a wandering minstrel struggling to earn enough money to marry his beloved.

Fortress Innocence will be based in the Great Neck office where Mr. Salpeter operates his own investigation company.

The Sixth and Ninth forts were used as prisons and the Central Archive was located in the Seventh Fort; the Republic's official radio station was based in the fortress; a gas chamber was installed in the gunpowder depot of the First Fort and used to execute condemned prisoners.