Sentence examples for made impregnable from inspiring English sources

In both Malaysia and Turkey Vettel's lead was made impregnable by slower cars - Nick Heidfeld's and Nico Rosberg's respectively - getting between him and his real rivals at the start of the race.

Rejecting a protracted siege, Marlborough decided in favour of a quick assault, before the position could be made impregnable.

Writing in 1610, the Spanish historian Fernando del Portillo commented that Gibraltar was "a stronghold from its very topography which with a little art could be made impregnable," and so it has proved.

They had assumed the target companies' size made them impregnable.

Mr. Musharraf's recent decrees have effectively muzzled the press, curbed the judiciary and made him impregnable before Parliament and the courts.

While he remained there with Hales England's plan must have been to forge on in pursuit of a lead that made them impregnable, giving themselves as much time as possible to bowl Pakistan out on Sunday.

The checkpoints have now been made virtually impregnable; they consist of a series of three or four concrete barriers, five feet high and a yard thick, arranged in a slalom pattern; each barrier has two opening — a narrow one, to accommodate pedestrian traffic, and one that is just wide enough to permit the passage of conventional civilian and commercial vehicles.

They quickly saw how mark-to-market made seemingly impregnable companies vulnerable to destruction.

AN INDEPENDENT judiciary is wonderful in a young democracy if you reform it first and make it impregnable later.

Sometimes I just feel a little twinge of regret that I'm not Daft Punk, or something, making critically impregnable French disco.

The Greeks, pretending to desert the war, sailed to the nearby island of Tenedos, leaving behind Sinon, who persuaded the Trojans that the horse was an offering to Athena (goddess of war) that would make Troy impregnable.