Fortresslike

Angry demonstrators filled the streets and city squares surrounding Cairo's fortresslike ministry of interior, which oversees the police, chanting against Egypt's interim ruling military regime and lobbing rocks at police. ❋ Matt Bradley (2012)

In a cramped conference room known as the "submarine" inside the fortresslike New York Fed, more than a dozen employees who constituted the institution's AIG task force were working marathon days, crammed elbow to elbow around a long wooden conference table. ❋ Brady Dennis (2011)

Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the forbidding, fortresslike Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have “resurrected” other patients who were lost in the void. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As Simon had informed me, Tug remained locked away in his fortresslike mansion by the airport. ❋ BILL FLANAGAN (2010)

These were the fortresslike offices of the reformist newspaper Khordad, where journalists saw themselves on a mission to liberalize Iranian thinking. ❋ Scott Peterson (2010)

I pedaled there on my bike too, following the wide basin of the river, which bends through the city between high, fortresslike stone banks. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Safdie also designed the headquarters of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a fortresslike behemoth with a distinctive curving arcade, near the corner of New York and Florida avenues in Northeast. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The fortresslike U.S. Embassy compound the size of ten football fields that has been dropped into central Baghdad is so large that erecting it diverted money targeted for Iraqi reconstruction, as well as for Afghanistan. ❋ Derek Leebaert (2010)

The Old City was surrounded by a fortresslike wall constructed by Suleiman the Magnificent in A.D. ❋ Vince Flynn (2010)

The station house was one of those fortresslike concrete structures, painted green on the outside, with heavy green entrance doors, and adorned with old-fashioned gas lamps near the entrance. ❋ Louis Diaz (2010)

The perpetrators likely had ties to organized crime, according to Ulrich Boser, author of "The Gardner Heist," who says most art thieves are common crooks -- the class of criminal who would probably be flummoxed by Washington's high-profile museums, which are fortresslike and ringed by bollards. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Outside, the full moon had reached its apex, shining down on the fortresslike old house on the hill. ❋ L.J. SMITH (2010)