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to redoubt
verb
To fortify, to make into a stronghold.
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There is the perduring local religion in the post-Faulkner worlds of William Kennedy and Toni Morrison: like the convent in Morrison's "Paradise," which is transformed from mansion to Catholic nunnery to redoubt for wayward women, belief is a fixture on the landscape even as its significance changes.
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Perceiving also that a number of the most desirable review copies were being set aside for libraries and universities, he began investigating various corners of the store — probing close to redoubts marked "Employees Only," poking around piles of books that seemed on their way from one part of the operation to another — in order to find "chinks in the system".
Unlike Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, who have been forced to retreat to mountain redoubts in western Pakistan's tribal areas, Lashkar commanders have been able to operate more or less in the open, behind the public face of a popular charity, with the implicit support of official Pakistani patrons, American officials said.
Diehards remained and some "ultras" longed for the apocalypse, or at least for taking the fight against the Allies to a redoubt in the Alps, there to die in a final courageous shoot-out.
We have travelled into the jungle, to this redoubt in the Farc's heartland, and also to Havana, where we conducted interviews of unprecedented depth and detail with all five of the senior Farc commanders who negotiated the treaty with the Colombian government.
In response to the Redoubt situation, AVO developed a database module and web interface to more efficiently collect and manage ashfall observations made by both the public and scientists.
If, as Representative Peter King, the Long Island Republican, said, information from abused prisoners "directly led" to the redoubt, why didn't the Bush administration follow that trail years ago?
Mr. Karzai apparently met with American officials and some of his own supporters in northern Pakistan before being taken back to his redoubt.
If so, coalition forces would be able to pull back to regional redoubts while Iraqis take responsibility for their own law and order.
When it became apparent in 1756 that the fort was too far to the west of the lake, the French constructed an additional redoubt to the east to enable cannon to cover the lake's narrows.
But analysts said the regime could be debating whether to make a major stand in Palmyra, portraying itself as the guardian of Syria's history against nihilistic enemies bent on destroying it, or to cut its losses and retrench closer to its redoubts in the west of the country.
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