In the face of these pressures, Anglican natural theology retreated into the apparently impregnable fortress of biology. |
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He's seen what looked like an impregnable 22-point lead slashed to just two ahead of me. |
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Labyrinthine streets of ancient slum housing traversed the steep hill up to the impregnable city walls. |
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The key to the Belgian defence along the Albert Canal was the supposedly impregnable fortress of Eben-Emael. |
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Yes sir, but we think that the position is impregnable and we can hold it against far superior forces. |
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The walls surrounding the city were impregnable, never before breached by an attacking army. |
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That ageless veteran, Michael Collins, turned in another stellar performance in a defensive unit that was impregnable. |
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But sometime during the final week your impregnable fortress crashes and burns, but you land on your feet at the very end of the month. |
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Incredibly sturdy, it had been built to serve as a nuclear bomb shelter if necessary, supposedly an impregnable fortress of civil defense. |
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No doubt it will go the way of all seemingly impregnable empires of the past. |
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On 15 September French and Serbian mountain troops successfully attacked hitherto impregnable Bulgarian positions. |
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He took a set off him and broke his serve that otherwise appears totally impregnable. |
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Upon further inspection of the breastworks, I have come to the conclusion that the town was almost impregnable. |
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He was impregnable, unbeatable, nothing, no creature could even come close to conquering the mighty Kong. |
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The west side of the building is nearly monolithic, appearing impregnable, with ribbon windows and a sheer precipice of craggy stone. |
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She felt rejuvenated by the water as it washed over her and breathed deep the billows of steam clouding the air like an impregnable fog. |
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The castles were all but impregnable and served as Norman anchors in a Saxon sea. |
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Our house was hardly an impregnable fortress at the best of times, and it was easy enough to get in if you'd forgotten your keys. |
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He was impregnable, unbeatable, and nothing, no creature could even come close to conquering the mighty Kong. |
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The victory stretched their 100 percent winning sequence to 19 matches and they now have an impregnable nine point lead at the top. |
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A fragile defense conceded five times as tactical confusion turned an impregnable rearguard into a poor one. |
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But Preston were knocked sideways by the shock of seeing their impregnable lead suddenly wiped out. |
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A seemingly impregnable and utterly ruthless regime fell to pieces in a few hours. |
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The fort was built to be impressive and all but impregnable to Indian enemies and raiding American colonials. |
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Recently, the impregnable force field surrounding this device began to display a countdown clock that suggested it would deliver its message at noon yesterday. |
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Rather than regroup and start anew, Vercingetorix now made the fatal decision to fall back into the impregnable oppidum of the Mandubii, Alesia. |
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They were practically impregnable, and it was hardly ever necessary to use force to get the upper hand. |
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The impregnable fortress of the last century would melt away like snow under a tropical sun before the batteries of a modern gunner. |
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Even alone and unspeaking, Mr. Bobb exudes the impregnable satisfaction of a lord and master of all he surveys. |
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The tippler brought his speech to an end, and shut himself up in an impregnable silence. |
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They seethe with frustration at the sight of a vile and incompetent government that remains unreasonably popular and electorally impregnable. |
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Its form is imperial. Its heavenly walls totally impregnable, impervious but to the pious, who enter it submissively and with humility. |
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The grandiosity of these topographic features, which served as an impregnable refuge for nineteenth century bandits, leaves no person unaffected. |
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The Security Council is not a cocoon, a vacuum or an impregnable and fossilized bunker. |
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Taking off one after the others the ladders put up on some protruding entablatures, the Cathars were, for a moment, impregnable in the darkness. |
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Temporal securities are vulnerable, but spiritual sureties are impregnable. |
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The Hudson's Bay Company intended it to be an impregnable English stronghold during the English-French struggle for North America. |
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It sits on limestone rock on a 688-metre hill west of Sierra Bermeja, and its east and south slopes are practically impregnable. |
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The liability shield is much less impregnable in the case of a LP than it is in the case of a corporation. |
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Because, despite improved technology and faster cars, drivers felt impregnable when driving their cars. |
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The architecture of these security systems ought to be impregnable, which is not the case at present. |
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Even when North Korea was rebuilt into an impregnable fortress, the U. S. did not care at all. |
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However, the User must be aware that Internet Security measures are not impregnable. |
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Later, he began building model castles, surrounded by fortified emplacements, and he spent hours studying the virtually impregnable fortifications of Vauban. |
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It was a ponderous labyrinth of bolts, locks, and steel doors, making it an almost impregnable fortress. |
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In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers. |
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When Sherman reached those earthworks, he thought them the most impregnable he had ever seen. |
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But it was really the uemployment data that turned out to be his impregnable fortress. |
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She claimed he groped her crotch, pulling at her pantyhose, but the barrier was impregnable. |
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Even in the impregnable fortress that was Robert Inglewood's twenty-fifth floor office on Greene Avenue, the sounds of the howling wind and pounding rain were deafening. |
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Singapore, an island at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula, was considered a vital part of the British Empire and supposedly impregnable as a fortress. |
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In their accounts of hunting for a way out, they provide a survey of a border territory, an impregnable zone through which the people imprisoned above would never pass. |
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However, instead of building the fort on a hill, the impassable wetlands were used to create an impregnable site, the biggest marshland in England. |
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His place in the hearts of most Thai is central and impregnable. |
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Miss Banerjee, who is impregnable in Calcutta but less so elsewhere in the state, has failed to unite the anti-Communist parties. In this section Substance or just style? |
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In Britain, DiYists have done much to put issues of animal welfare on the political agenda and probably more than anybody else to call in question the country's once politically impregnable road-building programme. |
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Following treatment, twenty percent of previously infertile females were impregnable. |
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In these places where schools are fenced in by an impregnable ring of 4x4s every day, the mobile telephone number of a willing maths tutor is the golden ticket. |
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The GSPC had the profile it needed: it had been fighting a real guerrilla war for years, it was relatively well armed, and it was solidly planted in impregnable strongholds. |
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Defense capability is legitimate but aspirations for impregnable defenses tend to undermine deterrence, and lead to new instruments of war and to an arms race. |
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As the Tower was considered an impregnable fortress in a strategically important position, possession was highly valued. |
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The relatively soft and porous Navajo Sandstone is often layered over impregnable Kayenta Shale, and the interaction of this rock with the water has created myriad amazing shapes and patterns. |
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They were the guardians of this area that was the impregnable bastion of Islamists for a long time and of their fields of operation in their insurgency movement. |
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From the very first, Quebec City, Kingston and Montreal were identified as strategic points for safeguarding the country, and it was imperative that these cities be made virtually impregnable. |
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European consumers must be confident that if and when their personal data is involved, their privacy will be impregnable also in a changing technological environment. |
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They have become a key reference in decisions by the supervisory bodies for the American Convention on Human Rights, which, in turn, have prompted national Governments to dismantle seemingly impregnable barriers to justice. |
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Once the great stone fortresses dotting their route of escape were garrisoned, argued Pizarro, they would prove impregnable. |
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All previous Allied attempts to capture the Ridge had failed, and there was a strong body of opinion among the Allied commanders that the Ridge was possibly impregnable and incapable of ever being taken by a direct attack. |
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Dionysus' urbanization of India makes India a powerful, impregnable nation. |
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Most damaging of all was the fall of Singapore, which had previously been hailed as an impregnable fortress and the eastern equivalent of Gibraltar. |
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Application of the compound rendered the non-porous surface impregnable. |
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The man's affection remains wholly unconcerned and impregnable. |
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A contingent of rebels held out in the virtually impregnable Kenilworth Castle and did not surrender until the drafting of the conciliatory Dictum of Kenilworth. |
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