Sentence examples for temporary fortress from inspiring English sources

Hotels, and motels, are also havens for people making legitimate business trips, or attending political gatherings, or any number of assemblies — or a temporary fortress of solitude.

The late 19th-century historian James Mackenzie recorded that the castle was used as a temporary fortress by both Royalist and Parliamentary forces during the conflict and that a Royalist garrison was besieged there by Parliamentary troops in 1644.

The European Commission the EU's executive, in Brussels—said that it would be possible for member states to reimpose border controls to prevent exceptional inflows but insisted that such measures be temporary and not mean the imposition of "fortress Europe" or the reintroduction of permanent borders within the EU.

The UNHCR, European commission and British Refugee Council have urged EU leaders to acknowledge the exceptional crisis posed by the Syrian civil war and accept the temporary settlement of Syrian refugees inside their borders – relaxing "fortress" policies designed to keep migrants out of Europe.

But the focus of Pitti remains inside the Fortezza da Basso, the walled fortress on the edge of town that serves as a temporary home to the hundreds of vendors who set up shop to present the coming season's new lines.

The Smederevo Fortress, in Smederevo, Serbia, was a medieval fortified city and temporary capital of Serbia in the Middle Ages.

Cousland's Flying Fortress encountered severe hail, damaging all the forward surfaces of the plane, and ice caused a temporary shutdown of one engine.

Lessening hostilities brought about a five-year truce in 1547 and temporary stabilization of the border between Habsburg and Ottoman empires, with Virovitica becoming the most significant defensive Habsburg fortress and Požega the most significant Ottoman centre in Slavonia, as Ottoman advances to Sisak and Čazma were made, including a brief occupation of the cities.

Seti achieved some success against the Hittites at first, but his gains were only temporary, for at the end of his reign the enemy was firmly established on the Orontes River at Kadesh, a strong fortress defended by the river, which became the key to their southern frontier.

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