They crushed each other as they swarmed across the moats and ditches between them and the packages. |
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The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors. |
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Gates were always specially protected and designed, built as guarded approaches, deafened by earth and water, scarps, counterscarps, moats. |
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I would make castles with turrets, moats and drawbridges in the firm white sand until the tide came in and swept them away. |
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It is hewn from local stone, has giant timber beams and large fireplaces, but has no turrets or moats. |
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All along the roads, cars beached for the onset of dark, their huddled hulks miniature bastions guarding the moats of lawns. |
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But homes today don't normally feature ramparts, drawbridges, moats and six-foot thick stone walls to keep out unwanted visitors. |
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The moats have since filled in, but the interferometric radar is so subtle that it detects the change in the height of the former banks. |
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It was not a castle, did not need moats or peel towers, and had no fortifications, unless the owner in the late 18th cent. had a taste for mock Gothic and battlements. |
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He was convinced that ocean moats would never keep the Axis powers out of the Western Hemisphere. |
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I asked the students to consider the courtyard space, and stimulated thought about guard houses, archways, entrance ways, lower courtyards, moats and drawbridges. |
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We need to build castles of security along trade routes that feature security technology equivalent to the moats, drawbridges, and watch towers of that period. |
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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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But for some, the public reaction to moats, duck houses and nudie films has yet to sink in. |
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Water defences, such as moats or natural lakes, had the benefit of dictating the enemy's approach to the castle. |
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While stones and tiles were used in some parts of the Liaodong Wall, most of it was in fact simply an earth dike with moats on both sides. |
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They also constructed large cult centres surrounded by pales, earthworks and moats. |
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The Sigiriya rock fortress is surrounded by an extensive network of ramparts and moats. |
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Parts of the moats remain as well as the five bulwarks and the battlements. |
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Ostracodes were recovered from sediment cores taken in castle moats in England, Scotland, and Wales. |
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Not all the elements of castle architecture were military in nature, so that devices such as moats evolved from their original purpose of defence into symbols of power. |
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Castles and smaller manor houses often had moats, portcullises and crenellations designed for archers to stand guard and pick off approaching enemies. |
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