Sentence examples for fortress behind from inspiring English sources

The memos are the handiwork of the chief of detectives, Phil T. Pulaski, who oversees some 2,200 detectives from the 13th floor of Police Headquarters, a rust-colored fortress behind the Municipal Building.

Rising like a medieval fortress behind a moat of brush and barbed wire, vacant for a quarter of a century, the former Towers Nursing Home is poised for a comeback.

The Turks were forced to retreat and leave the fortress behind.

In 540 the Sāsānian king Khosrow (Chosroes) I invaded Syria and even took Antioch, although many fortresses behind him in northern Mesopotamia remained in Byzantine hands.

Her body seemed to cave in on itself then, becoming smaller and smaller, so that even Cillian, fortressed behind the wall of his love, noticed and became alarmed.

I was pretty skeptical when I saw them and didn't think they'd have what it takes to make good games go, but I played through much of Crysis with them and got many hours of Team Fortress 2 behind me as well and I was impressed the whole time.

The shootout with an armed OBD, his cowardly use of a wife as a human shield, the fanatical guards, the fortress villa behind 18 foot walls.

Succeeding in their mission, a small band of demon warriors known as the Quarter Knights kept watch over the body of Mother in their fortress protected behind a powerful force field, and began gathering information as to the whereabouts of the guardian statues with the hope of one day reviving her and claiming Filgaia as their own.

"You will never fight us except behind fortified fortresses or behind walls," he said.

Its design signalled a move away from George W Bush's grim regime of flat-pack fortresses set behind high concrete walls, being the product of an architectural competition, which kickstarted Obama's policy of getting some of the US's best architects to design missions around the world – an initiative which Trump has gleefully cancelled, along with other innovations instituted by his predecessor.

America's diplomats must be protected, but they cannot do their jobs and interact with the world if they operate only behind fortress walls.