strongholds in English

noun
1
a place that has been fortified so as to protect it against attack.
World War I saw the evolution of a new fortification setup combining field strongholds with fortresses.

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1. The enemy strongholds fell one after another.

2. Fixed strongholds generating in the Backrooms.

3. We intercepted one of his messenger parcels detailing all of our defensive strongholds.

4. Jehovah himself has given a command against Phoenicia, to annihilate her strongholds.

5. The Indians quickly overran the country, selectively engaging or bypassing heavily defended strongholds.

6. Paul says' the weapons we fight with ... have divine power to demolish strongholds.

7. In 1980, there were vast strongholds of elephant range in Central and Eastern Africa.

8. Like the reptiles of the earth they will come trembling out of their strongholds.

9. Aleksandr Nevsky was born in Pereslavl-Zalessky – one of the major strongholds in the Vladimir Principality

10. Synonyms for Acropolises include forts, fortresses, castles, citadels, fortification, strongholds, fastness, redoubts, keeps and blockhouses

11. 39 He will act effectively against the most fortified strongholds, along with* a foreign god.

12. Synonyms for Barbicans include fortification, keeps, strongholds, towers, turrets, bartizans, forts, bulwarks, bastions and defence

13. Clan Wars in World of Tanks has two main components: Strongholds and the Global Map.

14. In May 1937, however, Communist-led forces attacked anarchist strongholds and broke up agrarian collectives.

15. Synonyms for Bastions include fortification, strongholds, bulwarks, fortresses, breastworks, citadels, fastness, parapets, redoubts and support

16. Synonyms for Alcazars include castles, fortresses, citadels, fastness, strongholds, forts, fortification, keeps, towers and chateaux

17. The Bowyer is one of the basic vendors, found at strongholds and established points of refuge

18. Other burhs were sited near fortified royal villas, allowing the king better control over his strongholds.

19. There are signs, however, that the conservative strongholds are gradually yielding to public demands for moderation.

20. The wild Beleaguerers broke, and, one by one, The strongholds of the plain were forced, and heaped

21. The wild Beleaguerers broke, and, one by one, The strongholds of the plain were forced, and heaped

22. The wild Beleaguerers broke, and, one by one, The strongholds of the plain were forced, and heaped With corpses

23. The wild Beleaguerers broke, and, one by one, The strongholds of the plain were forced, and heaped With corpses

24. The wild Beleaguerers broke, and, one by one, The strongholds of the plain were forced, and heaped With corpses

25. During 1443-1468 it was one of the core strongholds of the Albanian resistance against the Ottomans led by Skanderbeg.

26. Many of these protesters will be outside agitators, even convention delegates, from anti-abortion strongholds like Texas and Florida.

27. The wild Beleaguerers broke, and, one by one, 70: The strongholds of the plain were forced, and heaped: With corpses

28. Mowang person hanger-on disciple is famous by the intrepid battle efficiency, Honors violent is the Mowang villages strongholds tradition.

29. 12 The little man would trot around, mumbling contentedly, reenacting heroic skirmishes with rabid Orks in cramped subterranean Squattish strongholds.

30. At the same time the party continued to contract and disintegrate, even in its old mining and inner-city strongholds.

31. Honors violent is the Mowang villages strongholds tradition, Mowang person hanger-on disciple is famous by the intrepid battle efficiency.

32. The AFL-CIO's decline in recent years has reflected the industrial weakness of the traditional blue-collar strongholds of American unionism.

33. Its steep sides are thronged with Goblin strongholds and its rocky slopes overlay caves and tunnels that are riddled with evil creatures.

34. Amorite strongholds Amorite King Sihon, sometime before 1406 B.C., waged war against the Moabites and Ammonites for control of their lands

35. 24 Honors violent is the Mowang villages strongholds tradition,[www.Sentencedict.com] Mowang person hanger-on disciple is famous by the intrepid battle efficiency.

36. On 13 October 1990, the Syrian forces invaded Aoun strongholds including the presidential palace in Baabda, killing hundreds of Lebanese soldiers and civilians.

37. In 1635 the Dutch conquered three strongholds of the Portuguese: the towns of Porto Calvo, Arraial do Bom Jesus, and Fort Nazaré on Cabo de Santo Agostinho.

38. The Alps are one of the last strongholds for the central European population of the threatened Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), which consists of increasingly isolated populations.

39. They had fought bravely and offered stubborn resistance to the invader in many of their strongholds such as the cities of Ora, Bazira, and Massaga.

40. More recently, during the Little Ice Age (from about A.D. 1200 to 1850), the onset of cooler temperatures and higher snowfall initiated a minor advance of the glaciers from their mountain strongholds.

41. Japan lost their battle for runner-up bragging rights to South Korea, who managed 76 golds to their rivals' 48 and cut into Japan's traditional strongholds of judo, wrestling and swimming.

42. 21 And it came to pass that Moroni, having no hopes of meeting them upon fair grounds, therefore, he resolved upon a plan that he might adecoy the Lamanites out of their strongholds.

43. The directors of the company, the "Heeren XVII", were given the legal authority to establish "fortresses and strongholds", to sign treaties, to enlist both an army and a navy, and to wage defensive war.

44. By the early 20th century, the very last strongholds of the European moose appeared to be in Fennoscandian areas and patchy tracts of Russia, with a few migrants found in what is now Estonia and Lithuania.

45. Higher levels of attacks in this region are attributable primarily to ISAF operations in the area, like Operation Achilles, and the importance opposing militant forces place on retaining freedom of movement in the region, defending strongholds and exploiting any tactical opportunity.

46. As Archbishop Engelbrektsson's resistance to the encroachment of Danish rule escalated, first with King Frederick I of Denmark and his successor King Christian III of Denmark, Steinvikholm Castle and Nidarholm Abbey became the Roman Catholic Church's military strongholds in Norway.

47. ‘‘I grew up with it, getting to know the various places of battles, skirmishes, sieges, Ambuscades, ancient strongholds and war trails,’ wrote William.’ ‘The group were active in the late 1980s and used to conduct daring Ambuscades on mostly abusive police and local officials.’

48. ‘‘I grew up with it, getting to know the various places of battles, skirmishes, sieges, Ambuscades, ancient strongholds and war trails,’ wrote William.’ ‘The group were active in the late 1980s and used to conduct daring Ambuscades on mostly abusive police and local officials.’

49. It was once common throughout the Aegean but the peaks of the 2,400 m (8,000 ft) White Mountains of Western Crete are their last strongholds—particularly a series of almost vertical 900 m (3,000 ft) cliffs called 'the Untrodden'—at the head of the Samaria Gorge.

50. The negative effects of anti-self Bondages is staggering, which is why this is such an important bondage to address when ministering to people! Tear down anti-self strongholds! While anti-self Bondages can and often do involve demonic spirits, there is a demonic house that must be removed in order to bring true and lasting freedom.