Sentence examples for fortress design from inspiring English sources

With these two cities pointing the way, basic changes were undertaken in fortress design.

The sunken profile was only half the story of early modern fortress design; the other half was the trace, the outline of the fortress as viewed from above.

For the past three decades it has been a fortress designed to keep out society.

Its current home at Madison Avenue and 75th Street, a cantilevered granite fortress designed by Marcel Breuer in 1966, is increasingly cramped, with little room to display its growing permanent collection.

Privilege is more of a fortress, designed carefully and guarded heavily.

John of Gaunt spent lavishly in the late 14th century, turning the medieval castle into a palace fortress designed in the latest perpendicular style.

But as the police circled the dwelling during the morning of August 16, 1977, they saw that the building was more like a fortress, designed to keep unwanted visitors out.

The Johnson models, fortresses designed to withstand a siege of litigation, had triumphed.

"After all, a fortress was designed to repel people, not attract them".

Four years later, the Department of Energy's Inspector General argued that an above-ground, fortress-like design would actually be more expensive and less secure.

The UNHCR, European commission and British Refugee Council have urged EU leaders to acknowledge the exceptional crisis posed by the Syrian civil war and accept the temporary settlement of Syrian refugees inside their borders – relaxing "fortress" policies designed to keep migrants out of Europe.