Sentence examples for redoubt from from inspiring English sources

For Larkin, smallness of personality was what Wessex had been for Hardy, a defensively provincial redoubt from which to safely examine the world.

The "this" Ms. Long was referring to is this tiny village's magical redoubt from the dark and forbidding Arctic and one of the secrets of its outsize stature in Alaska sports lore: open gym.

On Sunday I got back from a week's holiday in Whitby, the North Yorkshire fishing port whose craggy streets and cosy harbour give it the feel of a redoubt from the modern world.

Section Six also includes the site of the Shing Mun Redoubt, from which Japanese soldiers routed British forces on Dec. 9, 1941, and soon won the battle for Hong Kong.

Many suspect that he has somehow fled far from the capital, perhaps as far as Liberia, a redoubt from which he has often marshaled his forces during this country's nine-year civil war.

For more than 30 years before the Cole attack, Aden -- a Marxist redoubt from 1967 to 1994, with a mountainous hinterland that became a base for Islamic terrorist operations in the 1990's -- has been a place to make Westerners wary.

They cynically manipulated that underlying sense of fear and loathing that holds back these working class redoubts from moving on with the rest of society.

After the British withdrawal, the Turks built a defensive line of trenches and redoubts, from the sea south of Gaza to Beersheba, following the route of the road.

Exclusion dikes can enclose and protect valuable infrastructure, as was done in 1989 1990 and 2009 to protect oil storage tanks at the mouth of the Drift River, Alaska, from lahars and volcanic floods originating from Redoubt Volcano (Dorava and Meyer [1994]; Waythomas et al. [2013]) (Case study 3; Figure 8c).

Whether that situation grows into a more dangerous and far-reaching threat will say a lot about the effectiveness of the American effort against terrorism in similar disaffected redoubts stretching from Pakistan to Somalia.

This royal redoubt is remote from the wild fastnesses of the Hindu Kush.