Redoubts

To this day photos of Ghazi Mohammed occupy a prominent place in Kurdish redoubts in Iraq and Iran. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Cornwallis had his men construct a main line of defense around Yorktown that consisted of ten small enclosed forts (called redoubts), batteries with artillery and connecting trenches. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Company's military engineers devised the erection of small suburban forts ( 'redoubts'), block-houses, and batteries, which were to be mounted with cannon and to be in charge of an appropriate garrison, and were to serve as outposts for the protection of the outlying quarters of the city. ❋ Glyn Barlow (N/A)

Many of the famous "redoubts" are coal-refuse pyramids really. ❋ Keith Henderson (1932)

For decades, the House and Senate agriculture committees have been the last redoubts of congressional bipartisanship, liberals and conservatives united in beating back any outside attempts to cut off tens of billions annually for price supports, crop insurance, weather assistance, conservation handouts and nutrition programs. ❋ Kimberley A. Strassel (2011)

Gadhafi, the longtime Libya leader remains at large and diverse military factions, with the help of aerial bombardment by North Atlantic Treaty Organization jets, are trying to seize the last loyalist redoubts, such as Sirte, so the NTC can say its victory is complete. ❋ Sam Dagher (2011)

He presided over an Afghan military force used to clear Taliban redoubts before becoming Kandahar police chief in May. ❋ Dion Nissenbaum (2011)

Of course, given Obama's slippage in traditional Republican redoubts at the presidential level, it's hard to imagine that he would hold together the rest of his state-by-state coalition if he lost those two states. ❋ Chris Cillizza (2011)

Soon after the allied armies appeared, Cornwallis gave up his outlying works and withdrew into the main line of fortifications and redoubts about the town. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)

Much more slippage, and the president won't be able to offset votes from the Republican redoubts in southwestern Ohio. ❋ Jonathan Weisman (2011)

As a TV genre, competition reality shows are one of the last redoubts of truly mass-market television, able to sweep over all segments of the audience, fuel water-cooler chatter and make advertisers swoon as the medium did in the heyday of broadcast television. ❋ Amy Chozick (2011)

And now Democrats are paying a price even in safe political redoubts for having spent their years in control of Congress and the White House by pursuing their social-welfare, environmental and other ideological projects instead of reviving jobs and growth. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In places like Jamaica and Haiti, black populations had driven out European colonizers by striking from mountain redoubts. ❋ David S. Reynolds (2011)

U.S. and Afghan troops 'push in Kandahar province in recent weeks has succeeded in seizing Taliban redoubts in the rural districts of Arghandab, Zhari and Panjway surrounding Kandahar city, and in the southwestern suburbs of Mahalajat. ❋ Yaroslav Trofimov (2010)

Still, the reality: Led by a larger-than-life president whose public support sat at 69% on that famous Inauguration Day, the Democratic Party, like a dying star, may be collapsing into a handful of urban redoubts such as New York, L.A., ❋ Daniel Henninger (2010)

Moammar Gadhafi's hometown on Monday as fighters supporting Libya's interim leadership pushed to capture the city and the loyalist forces' few other remaining redoubts. ❋ Sam Dagher (2011)

The authors, however, blithely ignore or dismiss these concerns from their redoubts in Helsinki and Madrid. ❋ David Harris (2011)

Not any more; these redoubts were destroyed by the SNP juggernaut. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The latest fears over the progress towards political stability in Libya come as heavy fighting continued in and around the coastal town of Sirte, one of the last redoubts of pro-Gaddafi fighters. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The redoubtable [Chuck Norris] destroyed an entire [village] [in the blink of an eye]. ❋ Elvislives (2006)

I [went] to [see] Mount Redoubt over the [summer]. ❋ Volcano Know-it-All (2011)