Sentence examples for one fortress from inspiring English sources

Dying in their dozens because of torture, hunger, and sickness while constantly being shifted from one fortress to another in the Balkans, and clinging to their hope of return, we witness the decline of the Ottomans and the rise of European powers, all connected to Mount Lebanon and its warring sects.

One fortress may have been destroyed in the conflict, locals told them.

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This is personified by the massive Peachtree Center office complex, which is a fully enclosed, air-conditioned downtown in itself, with skywalks connecting one fortress-like building to another.

There was one problem: Fortress was not the buyer.

You're going to be one big fortress?

The political atmosphere is one of fortress Europe, even if immigrants are doing the jobs nobody else wants to do and are needed to ensure that we don't end up as a continent of old people".

Most people, trained by spy fiction, firmly believed in the existence of safe houses, and assumed that he was being protected in one such fortress at the public's expense.

And in a medley of songs about watching her man marry someone else, "All I Could Do Was Cry" and "Stop the Wedding," she started with the little-girl voice of early-1960's rock, but ended up wailing with loneliness and then begging with a hint of threat, "Don't do it!" She was bereft and indomitable, sly and forthright -- a one-woman fortress holding the wisdom of the blues.

Only the parents were in awe of the setting: on one side a centuries-old fortress and on the other, the magnificent sea.

1979, the fifth studio album by composer, sound engineer, and all-around experimental tinkerer, Deru, subscribes itself to the same aural-decaying cues as maestros like The Caretaker, Tim Hecker, and releases from Modern Love: muted swaths of synthesizers build on one another to create poignant fortresses of sonic trackage.