(n.) The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places in order to defend them against an enemy.
(n.) That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The top of the fence can also be manipulated in certain ways such as including curvature outward at the top of the fence to make scaling it much more difficult for most.” Some critics, including Washington DC congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, have warned against excessive fortification, but the report argues: “We recognise all the competing considerations that may go into questions regarding the fence, but believe that protection of the President and the White House must be the higher priority.” “Every additional second of response time provided by a fence that is more difficult to climb makes a material difference in ensuring the President’s safety and protecting the symbol that is the White House.” The panel also urges that a new head of secret service, to replace ousted head Julia Pierson, be brought in from outside the agency, ensuring it is better staffed and trained in future.
(2) It is concluded that vitamin-D deficiency in Asian immigrants could be substantially reduced by fortification of chupatty flour with vitamin D.
(3) Accuracy, measured by comparison with fortification values, averaged 95% and ranged from 79 to 103%.
(4) In Terezín itself, I saw for myself the buildings, roads and fortifications shown in the artists' works.
(5) We conducted a randomized double-blind trial of a cow's milk infant formula with increased iron fortification in order to confirm its safety and to measure its effects on iron status and immune function.
(6) Accordingly, such fortification should be used in selected situations only, rather than as a routine nursery policy.
(7) Adequate exposure to summer sunlight is the essential means to ample supply, but oral intake augmented by both fortification and supplementation is necessary to maintain baseline stores.
(8) Results for commercial preparations obtained by the proposed procedure demonstrate excellent precision and accuracy with RSD values for replicate analysis ranging from 0.11 to 0.74% and recoveries via fortification from 99.6 to 100.1%.
(9) Fortification of wheat flour by 0.3% lysine resulted in better growth of rats when fed at 6% protein level.
(10) For each fortification level, the means of recovery yield were in the range 56-107%, and were independent of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon congener specificity and the operator's capability.
(11) Fortification of commercial blood meal with isoleucine did not improve much its quality.
(12) Fortification levels ranged from 0.02 to 1.2 ppm for alpha-BHC, lindane, cis- and trans-chlordane, octachlor epoxide, o,p'- and p,p'-DDT, p,p'-DDE, p,p'-TDE, hexachlorobenzene, heptachlor epoxide, dieldrin, endrin, methoxychlor, mirex, and toxaphene.
(13) 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.
(14) To combat vitamin deficiencies in populations whose dietary staple is maize, the fortification of maize meal with riboflavin and nicotinamide has been recommended.
(15) Following ugly scenes on the Serbian-Hungarian border on Wednesday when Hungarian security forces used tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets on desperate people pressed up against Budapest’s new razor-wire border fortifications, the focus shifted on Thursday to Croatia.
(16) The study included fortification of tissue by each laboratory and analysis of fat samples taken from treated heifers which had endogenous levels of 0, 10, and 20 ppb melengestrol acetate.
(17) These infants received Fe mainly from fortification Fe with beikost (75-86%) and less than 10% met the recommended intake of 1 mg.kg-1.d-1; whereas 80-85% of the infants fed the Fe-fortified formula did.
(18) There was no evidence that vitamin fortification of the modified medium had any significant effect on the growth rate of test organism.
(19) Samples consisted of 3 Great Lakes channel catfish homogenates containing different levels of bioincurred 2,3,7,8-TCDD; 1 of these was prepared in duplicate and another was prepared both with and without standard 2,3,7,8-TCDD fortification for a total of 5 samples per set.
(20) A targeted, double-blind controlled iron fortification trial using Fe(111)-EDTA in masala (curry powder) was directed towards an Fe-deficient Indian population for 2 y.
Fortress
Definition:
(n.) A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
(v. t.) To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nuptials drew crowds of fans eager to witness the glitzy event, but they were kept far away from the heavily walled 16th-century fortress, which offers stunning views of Florence and surrounding Tuscan hills.
(2) In one way they were right to state the obvious – because Celtic were utter plod at the back – but hubris is best not displayed until you are beyond the reach of vengeance, as opposed to being about to walk into the fortress of the foe you have just mocked.
(3) Captain America kicking open the door of what looks like a European mountain fortress suggests the Nazi offshoot Hydra might be rearing its many ugly heads once again.
(4) After a stirring speech urging the ushering in of a new era of politics delivered to a packed convention hall in the Ghanaian capital Accra, Obama and his family toured the white-walled slave fortress to the sound of beating drums and chanting from a huge crowd outside.
(5) The fortress-like villages perched on rocky mountaintops we saw when we visited the north of the country are reminders that Yemen has constantly been invaded, or otherwise meddled with, by outsiders, from the Turks onwards.
(6) "Now we know our fortresses are secure," says their president, Tim Farron, a smirk of triumph in his voice, "we can collect 25 or 30 more Tory seats."
(7) Arab Iraq may still try to retake the province, but it is too focused on turning Baghdad and the Shia south into a fortress.
(8) However, much as MI6 hides in plain sight in their huge postmodernist fortress on the south bank of the Thames, at least one BAE building is very visible indeed.
(9) The original fortress was built in the 13th century but was raised to the ground by clashing clans and today is largely a 20th-century Grand Designs-style restoration thanks to Lieutenant Colonel John MacRae-Gilstrap, who bought the ruin in 1911.
(10) Founded in 1088, the monastery’s fortress-like walls dominate the island’s skyline.
(11) So when Bill Gates pitched into the debate last week with a proposal that robots should be taxed , just like human workers are, you can imagine the splutters of outrage from the neoliberal fortresses of Silicon Valley.
(12) It's like a giant fortress in the middle of the city, taking up more than a traditional housing block (a whole street was annihilated for it).
(13) Canada has budgeted more than C$1bn (£644m) for security for the two summits, leading to accusations from activists that Toronto had been turned into a fortress.
(14) I further call on the international community to do everything in its power to protect the affected civilian population and safeguard the unique cultural heritage of Palmyra.” However, Isis has often cherished its destruction of cultural artefacts, releasing long, well-produced videos of their destruction of objects in the Mosul Museum and their detonation and bulldozing of much of the ancient fortress city of Hatra in Iraq.
(15) So the Super Fortresses were stripped to fly at 32,000 feet.
(16) The bank has repeatedly made it clear that a big loss – even of $6.2bn – cannot take down a bank with the size and strength of JP Morgan – a bank that has, in its own favorite phrase, "a fortress balance sheet".
(17) A sensationalist and scruple-free press seems eager to collude in their “noble lie”: that a Middle Eastern militia, thriving on the utter ineptitude of its local adversaries, poses an “existential risk” to an island fortress that saw off Napoleon and Hitler .
(18) In an interview with Fox News last Sunday , Trump accused Beijing of “building a massive fortress in the middle of the South China Sea, which they shouldn’t be doing”.
(19) Some 35% of Labour supporters voted yes on 18 September and three of the party’s traditional fortresses – Glasgow, North Lanarkshire and Dundee – were among the four local authorities out of 32 to back independence.
(20) Dun Totaig Distance 4 miles Start Letterfearn, Grid Ref: NG884238 Further information and maps Eilean Donan castle ( eileandonancastle.com )is one of the Highlands', indeed Scotland's, most iconic landmarks – a picture-perfect stone fortress surrounded by water (and often thronging with visitors).