'rampart' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a defensive wall around a city, fortress, or fortification. For example: "The ramparts of the fortress could be seen from miles away."
Today a rampart of federal legislation, such as the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act, would block the way.If not another great dam, why not some equivalent?
THE mountains at Buchs, near St Gallen in north-east Switzerland, rise to more than 2,200 metres, with Buchs itself clustered under a long rampart of peaks.
That sounded like a reference to India's controversial ambassador to Nepal, Rakesh Sood, who served unhappily as the target of some shoe-throwing a few months ago.The Nepali Congress, the second-largest of the three major parties and rampart of the anti-Maoist coalition, greeted the new government with a volley of angry accusations.
Marko Jaksic, a young lawyer, says the border is not "up there" but "on the bridge", where an earth rampart cuts Mitrovica in two over the Ibar river.
"A user hung by a noose from its rampart; others were storming the walls".During the 1970s Europe's state-run telecoms operators were building their own data networks, based on the circuit-switching technology used to carry phone calls.
The troops usually required three to four hours to dig a ditch around the periphery, erect a rampart or palisade from timbers carried by each man, lay out streets, and pitch tents.
An earthen rampart was built around the city in 1310, and soon afterward gates were added.
Today it is surrounded by a great rampart of earth and brick.
Rampart-T Spying efforts against leaders of China, Russia and several eastern European states.
Next we're guided into a cellar that explains the final version of the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampartt", as the wall was officially known in the East.
THE junkies cadge quarters at the intersection of Rampart Boulevard and Temple Street, but the panaderia on the corner is inviting, its windows stacked with Chinese buns and Salvadorean cream cakes.
