(n.) A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.
Example Sentences:
(1) When you go there, there is a restaurant in the citadel, oh my God, you have to go and eat there!
(2) Except where he didn’t, namely in exactly the sort of southern citadels – Crawley or Southampton – where his critics claim he’s toxic.
(3) But the citadels of impunity are all intact," Grover said.
(4) Too many donkeys, horses and sheep were brought into the citadel along with their owners, contaminating the only water source.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aleppo’s citadel in 2008: the Unesco World Heritage site has since suffered damage that will ‘only be open for proper assessment when the war is over’.
(6) More than half of the listed buildings in the old city – including many souks, its famous citadel, the minaret of the 11th-century Umayyad mosque, along with bath houses, schools, hospitals and entire residential districts – have been reduced to rubble.
(7) "Iraq used to be the citadel of opposition against Iran," he said.
(8) In the trust’s book, Syria: Media Citadels between East and West , Julia Gonnella describes how the sixth-century fortification failed to become a place of long-term refuge and settlement because of a lack of clean water.
(9) Off the standard tourist trail is Purana Qila, Delhi’s oldest Mughal monument, where 100 rupees will buy you half-an-hour’s pedalo ride on a beautiful boating lake in the shadow of the citadel’s walls.
(10) But my grandfather saw it as the citadel, the Ark; it preserved history, which was his mission.
(11) Citadel spokeswoman Kim Keelor-Parker said the school was investigating whether more people took part and would have no further comment until the probe is complete.
(12) The outer gateway was repeatedly struck by shells as the rebels tried to capture the citadel, though again each side accused the other of causing the damage.
(13) This is the central question that underpins Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, a potent critique of the man and the company that, in tandem with Gibney’s previous work, including Taxi to the Dark Side and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief , seeks to penetrate well-defended citadels of belief.
(14) I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
(15) British archaeologists should rebuild Palmyra, says Boris Johnson Read more Photographs of the Unesco world heritage-listed citadel, known as “the bride of the desert”, taken following the recapture of the city by Bashar al-Assad’s troops show the damage made by Isis during its 10-month occupation.
(16) Crystalline and authoritative, he created a geometric cathedral, an icy citadel imposing order on the city below.
(17) Far from draining the swamp, he is opening the sluicegates; the money men are not so much being hurled out as in full occupation of the economic citadel.
(18) Dalley said this was part of a complex system of canals, dams and aqueducts to bring mountain water from streams 50 miles away to the citadel of Nineveh and the hanging garden.
(19) Nationalism triumphed over liberalism, populism triumphed over evidence and expertise; paranoia triumphed over trust.” No one on the remain side fully anticipated an emotional groundswell of contempt for the very idea of political authority as dispensed from a liberal citadel in Westminster.
(20) It used to be that you would look up at these financial citadels and imagine the view from the boardroom,” says Richards, explaining the new policy for every tower to have free public access up high.
Esplanade
Definition:
(n.) A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town.
(n.) The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country.
(n.) A grass plat; a lawn.
(n.) Any clear, level space used for public walks or drives; esp., a terrace by the seaside.
Example Sentences:
(1) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins and bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(2) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins, bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(3) The military tattoo has been staged on the castle esplanade for 66 years and the castle will be the backdrop and launchpad for a vast firework display that traditionally marks the end of the international festival every year.
(4) Heading further east, the esplanade is dotted with churches and forts interspersed with bars and restaurants – Barreirinha is a lively cafe-bar with a terrace.
(5) Nice’s waterfront was all but deserted on Friday, beaches empty, cafes abandoned, the esplanade cordoned off and the white truck used in the attack visible from a distance, its windscreen pockmarked with bullet holes and its front buckled.
(6) He told her: I was at the end of Scarbrough Esplanade, Skegness, which is beside the pier.
(7) The film takes place in a terrain of rocks, woods, esplanades by the lake, pavilions and ornamental bridges.
(8) Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a chauffeur and a petty criminal who lived in the Riviera city , accelerated the heavy goods vehicle through thick crowds for more than a mile along a beachfront esplanade on Thursday night, turning a Bastille Day festival of fireworks and families into carnage before police shot him dead.
(9) Pushchairs thrown over the esplanade and onto the beach; others, lying higgledy-piggledy on their side on the pavement, abandoned by parents desperate to get their children out of harm’s way; and between the smears of dried blood staining the tarmac, the blue blankets covering some of the 84 men, women and children who died.
(10) Classic examples include Morelli's in Broadstairs , Rossi's on the Esplanade in Weymouth , where the ice-cream has been made from scratch on the premises since the 1930s, and Ives on Aldeburgh High Street, where unusual flavours include rhubarb and lemon curd.
(11) However, a small group of Rousseff supporters staged a candlelit vigil in the main esplanade.
(12) This is the foreshore walk, looking away from the Pier in the direction of Tower Esplanade, shortly before 7pm; about 40 minutes before high tide.
(13) What Barack Obama will see, when on Friday he becomes the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima , is a large esplanade lined with trees, with a cenotaph monument to the victims of the A-bomb, with the words: “the error of the past will not be repeated”.
(14) One by one they came – vessels the size of tenement blocks – disgorging holidaymakers on to an esplanade dotted with little white buildings in scenes of exuberant commotion.
(15) The beach is at the end of an elegant esplanade that leads up to tree-lined residential streets and Connaught Avenue, dubbed the Bond Street of East Anglia.
(16) When I visited the town, the esplanade was still festooned with forlorn pink ribbons, put there by locals desperately hoping the five-year-old would be found.
(17) I'm thinking a row of fracking wells along the Southsea esplanade , or at the very least a large offshore wind farm at the neck of Portsmouth harbour.
(18) There is talk, too, of a turf war along the esplanade between rival drug dealers battling to control distribution.
(19) I’ve seen hobos on the Esplanade address bigger crowds,” he wrote.