Sentence examples for outer defense from inspiring English sources

He completed and extended fortifications begun by his father, built a great moat and a new outer defense wall, paved the ceremonial Processional Way with limestone, rebuilt and embellished the principal temples, and cut canals.

In my colleague Kareem Fahim's latest dispatch from outside Libya's capital, he writes: "Libyan rebels advanced to within 10 miles of Tripoli on Sunday, pushing past the city's outer defense lines and vowing to combine forces with insurgents who have waged intense battles inside the city".

On 31 March Posen and Westfalen left Danzig; the ships arrived at Russarö, which was the outer defense for Hanko, by 3 April.

Open skirmishing began on the outer defense works of Ticonderoga on July 2. By July 4, most of the American garrison was either at Fort Ticonderoga or nearby Mount Independence, the extensive fortifications on the Vermont side of the lake.

The interiors were partitioned off by additional defensive works to facilitate battle even after the outer defenses had been penetrated by an enemy assault.

Assad's mobsters, chanting "down with America" and bringing large stones for the occasion, shattered windows and breached the outer defenses of the Embassy.

The attachment, known as r8, helps guide antibiotics through a bacterium's outer defenses and encourages them to linger, said Alexandra Antonoplis, a graduate student in chemistry and co-lead author with fellow chemistry graduate student Xiaoyu Zang.

ISIS lost Derna, but in the past few months they have taken Qaddafi's home town of Sirte and surrounding areas in Libya's "Oil Crescent," and have begun attacks on the outer defenses of the city of Misrata.

ISIS was forced to cede the Libyan town of Derna, but in the past few months they have taken areas in Libya's "Oil Crescent," and have begun attacks on the outer defenses of the city of Misrata.

In contrast with the saprotrophic fungi, parasitic fungi attack living organisms, penetrate their outer defenses, invade them, and obtain nourishment from living cytoplasm, thereby causing disease and sometimes death of the host.

By Jon Lee Anderson August 4, 2015 ISIS was forced to cede the Libyan town of Derna, but in the past few months they have taken areas in Libya's "Oil Crescent," and have begun attacks on the outer defenses of the city of Misrata.