JERUSALEM — For many Israelis, the 1973 Arab-Israeli war was their single most terrifying moment, when a woefully unprepared nation, deluded into believing that its neighbors regarded it as impregnable, suffered a devastating attack and struggled back to victory at enormous cost with last-minute American help.
It is impregnable, like cement, he says.
Hijacking the truck between stops, as one would hijack a truckload of furs, was out of the question, for it was impregnable when closed up.
Ten years later, the army covered the grave with concrete and replaced a simple wooden headstone with a stone monument, making it nearly impregnable.
It's easy to think of the Affordable Care Act as monolithic national policy, a federal program so big that it is impregnable and impervious to change.
French forces reached as far as San Roque, just north of Gibraltar, but did not attempt to target Gibraltar itself as they believed that it was impregnable.
Although there were no scientific elements to its design, it was almost impregnable, and in 1187 Saladin chose to lay siege to the castle and starve out its garrison rather than risk an assault.
The kingdom's mountain fastness and its altitude had to a large extent guaranteed its isolation, and for centuries it remains an impregnable feudal realm.
Hugo looked like it had an impregnable advantage, but over the course of the evening, The Artist chipped away at it.
The site continued uninterrupted, thanks to two technological innovations that make it all but impregnable.
