In his fortress-like house in the Cape Flats suburb of Belhar. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Despite its fortress-like character the house was comfortable. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
But arid Waziristan is a collection of silent, fortress-like settlements. From Wordnik.com. [Tribes of Terror « Isegoria] Reference
One of the attractions of Aristotle Onassis was his fortress-like island in the Aegean. From Wordnik.com. [Coming Of Age] Reference
And to the north, in Malibu, not even a fortress-like castle could withstand the flames. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2007] Reference
The Auditorium Building would have been demolished but for its fortress-like architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Form Follows Function, Elegantly] Reference
Then, taken to this fortress-like compound nearby, one of General Dostum's living quarters. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2001] Reference
On May 12, they found 14 immigrants held at a "fortress-like" house on West Madison Street. From Wordnik.com. [Immigrants Become Hostages as Gangs Prey on Mexicans] Reference
SANCHEZ: These are people who live in the big homes, the ones behind the fortress-like walls. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2006] Reference
But it does have narrow window slits, a fortress-like wall, and a whole bunch of barbed wire. From Wordnik.com. [When New York Apartments Stop Being Polite and Start Being Real] Reference
Inside the fortress-like Jacob Javits Center this week, the outside world does not bother us. From Wordnik.com. [Heavy Metal?] Reference
Public housing used to mean fortress-like blocks and soulless rows of cheaply built townhouses. From Wordnik.com. [High Design for Low-Income Housing] Reference
The speaker of the poem is a little scary in the way he closes the poem within a fortress-like indictment. From Wordnik.com. [bard Diary Entry] Reference
SANCHEZ (voice-over): These are the people who live in the big homes, the ones behind the fortress-like walls. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2006] Reference
Opponents of the group have also attacked their fortress-like headquarters in the Iraqi capital several times. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
After your first walk through the fortress-like entrance you feel like you have left the world outside behind you. From Wordnik.com. [Inviting spas in Cuernavaca, Mexico] Reference
Moreover, many of the houses were of fortress-like construction, three stories high, and with only a few slits for windows. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Last year a small demonstration was kept at some distance from the fortress-like congress centre where the meeting is held. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Nightingale didn't particularly admire the fortress-like cloister, but examining it was better than looking across the river. From Wordnik.com. [The Eagle And The Nightingale]
NOVEMBER The new embassy in Baghdad has been criticized as being excessively fortress-like and a poor platform for diplomacy. From Wordnik.com. [Informed Reader] Reference
He still wanted to build the most beautiful cathedral in the world, but it would not be a massive, solid, fortress-like structure. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Like "some of the architecture I love", he writes, "it's out of scale, it's too monumental, it's fortress-like, it's Not In Keeping.". From Wordnik.com. [A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley – review] Reference
Now this compound is a fortress-like area that belongs to Abdul Rashid Dostum, who is the top Northern Alliance commander here in Mazar-e-Sharif. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2001] Reference
GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's a house surrounded by a fortress-like wall, a security camera on the lookout for unwanted guests. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2008] Reference
The high-profile 17-month trial took place in a temporary courtroom inside a prison complex that is guarded with a fortress-like, multi-tiered security. From Wordnik.com. [India gives death penalty to gunman in Mumbai terrorist attack] Reference
We understand, at that moment, she's now in one of the family houses here, Bilawal House, just over to my right here, which is a fortress-like family home. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2007] Reference
SADLER: But an U.S. attempts to winkle out any al Qaeda or Taliban leadership from this fortress-like terrain is now antagonizing U.S. allies in Jalalabad. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2001] Reference
SADLER: Like Jumblatt, the Hariri camp is bunkered down with fortress-like security amid rising tension, still counting the days it takes to discover the truth. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2006] Reference
Only occasionally did we meet any one, Chinese or Mantzu, and there was no stir about the few dwellings that we passed, all high, fortress-like buildings of stone. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's a house surrounded by a fortress-like wall, a security camera on the lookout for unwanted guests. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2008] Reference
They were taken to this fortress-like compound, which is the house of General Abdul Rashid Dostum, the main commander of the Northern Alliance here in Mazar-e Sharif. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2001] Reference
The stucco houses of the settlement stood on the ridgeline 250 feet above the road in a fortress-like manner, with solar panels on the clay roofs tilted to the south. From Wordnik.com. [Our Other War] Reference
Vestiges of the use of a pivotal hinge, constructed on a much more massive scale than any of the pueblo examples, were seen at an old fortress-like, stone storehouse of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
And so, if the U.N. does decide that, for security reasons, they're going to take this much more kind of a fortress-like approach, that, too, may hinder the reconstruction. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2003] Reference
Because up until today, tomorrow, the next week, these settlers continue to go into these settlements in Gaza, simply creating fortress-like conditions in some of these areas. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2005] Reference
But confidence has worn thin, especially among cabinet ministers who have now started to take refuge in the fortress-like home of assassinated former prime minister Rafik Hariri. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2006] Reference
But confidence has worn thin, especially among Cabinet ministers, who have now started to take refuge in the fortress-like home of assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 22, 2006] Reference
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