They are this Lions team's best assault weapon in the high fortress of Pretoria.
Behind high fortress walls, again built from pisé, lie an outdoor pool, lush gardens, a restaurant and 15 tasteful rooms set around two courtyards.
But walking along the road, passing fine houses with high fortress walls, electrified fencing, menacing dogs and "Armed Response" notices, I felt like the shacks were the happier, freer places.
He said he was concerned that a "high-wall fortress" the mothers had "constructed", which "excludes the fathers", would "remain solid and impregnable".
But while the stereotype may be a private, high-security fortress, academics have also identified other sub-types: some developments, for example, sell a "lifestyle", like country clubs and retirement villages; "prestige" communities, meanwhile, trade on status and a sense of luxury and exclusivity.
Novogratz had risen quickly, at Goldman Sachs and in the hedge-fund world, but each rise was met with a stunning, often humiliating reversal — first a parting with Goldman, in 2000, over what has been referred to in the press as "lifestyle issues," and then the removal from his partnership, in 2015, at the high-flying Fortress Group after losing a series of currency bets.
Johan Engels's abstract set, the courtyard of a high-walled fortress, littered with debris both classical and modern -- the decapitated remains of a column lie next to a broken contemporary chair -- evokes Electra's shattered psyche, although it could just as easily serve as the backdrop for a fashion shoot.
After six months of stalemate, they surprised the world, and perhaps themselves, with their lightning descent on the capital and their conquest of the Bab al-Aziziya barracks – that vast, forbidding high-walled fortress, home, seat of power, and above all, crass, iconic, absurdist symbol of Gaddafi and all his works.
Quick action and solid detective work elevate the second part of this book until it segues into one of the best of the series's climactic assaults: the expected, wildly over-the-top moment when Reacher must single-handedly penetrate some kind of huge, geometrically interesting, top-secret high-security fortress.
Now a superintendent in the stations department, based at a high-tech fortress of a command center in Midtown Manhattan, Mr. Merrick spent his first 20 years as a railroad clerk at practically every stop in the city, above and below ground.
