Sentence examples for our fortress from inspiring English sources

"They say, 'Rabbi, this is our home for entertainment, it's our fortress.

We'd accepted the heavy seven-inch key to our fortress late that afternoon from owner Matteo Giovanardi.

"But then others recognize that Centre Street is in fact in Chinatown, and they say, 'You're going to be our fortress, and this way we can stop SoHo from encroaching further.' ".

"Our fortress balance sheet allowed us to help the federal government avoid a bankruptcy of Bear Stearns and to acquire Washington Mutual, providing essential credit and minimizing market disruptions that could have been disastrous," she said in a statement.

The pauperisation of huge parts of the developing world through so-called globalisation, the earth-shaking effects of war, repression, separatist violence and counter violence, the allure of the filthy rich west viewed from the dustbowls and rubbish-tips of shantyvilles outside our fortress, are creating a swell of millions of would-be immigrants.

"The Stadium of Light must become our fortress.

For me, as a Brit, seeing this hands-on throwback to the Battle of Britain, when the Women's Auxiliary Air Force would broom little plaques around a giant map of our island fortress, evoked nostalgic feelings.

One of the most tiresome statements in the British mythography of the war goes along the lines of "Our island fortress fought alone all of Europe was either conquered by Hitler, or stayed neutral .It is hard to find even the narrowest sense in which that is true.

They are saying to whole sectors of society: you are stuck where you are, much like the migrants and refugees we turn away at our increasingly fortressed borders.

Our secure geographical fortress has at last been breached.

Like Venice in the 17th century, we will have to employ a powerful mercenary army to protect our glittering financial fortress.