Sentence examples for rampart for from inspiring English sources

In the Midlands, a remarkable National Forest is sprouting, a green rampart for Birmingham.

Constructed during the 18th century and originally a rampart for cannon emplacement, the park got its name from the hundreds of pigeons that lived here, and still do.

Voters, buffeted by unemployment, dismayed by immigration, scared of terrorism, and angry at growing inequality, crave the alleged certainties of a past where the strong nation state was a rampart for its citizens.

In the 900s an earth rampart for the defence of the early city was also constructed, encircling the settlement, much like the defence structures found at ring fortresses elsewhere.

Though in public Biden would often seem ready to launch into his third campaign for the White House — with events that highlighted his strengths as a rampart for the middle class and veteran deal-maker — current and former aides and longtime friends suggested Wednesday that, in retrospect, the answer to the question hanging over the race for weeks was never in doubt.

He has the blessing of Karl Rove, President Bush's political guru, who lately sounds like Karl von Clausewitz in envisioning fresh ramparts for G.O.P. hegemony.

It is about survival and subjugation, the explosive moment and the marathon effort: it is Andrew Flintoff bayoneting Justin Langer and Ricky Ponting in his first over of the second innings at Edgbaston in 2005; it is Flintoff battering Australia's ramparts for 18 consecutive overs at The Oval a month later.

The Ottoman pioneers spent five days digging trenches and building ramparts for 44 heavy siege guns carried aboard Barbarossa's fleet or by Ulamen's troops, and even smoothed the fields around Castelnuovo to facilitate maneuvers.

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As early as 1948, U.S. Government officials eyed the Rampart site for its hydroelectric potential.

This rampart runs for 100 miles then splays into three, low-relief ranges before terminating at Nimrod Glacier, the next of the outlet glaciers.