Its extent varied in places as a result of subsequent improvements to the fortifications and is depicted differently on the various maps.

Its fortifications were dismantled in 1874.

Its obsolete and ruined fortifications were destroyed upon order of Mayor Józef Królikowski.

Its military harbour was fortified by Louis XIV's commissary of fortifications Vauban.

Its fortifications were increased in response to the border warfare which raged between England and Scotland in the period from about 1300 to 1600.

Its fortifications are now well restored.

Its solid fortifications are a testament to the innumerable attacks by Spanish, French and English pirates and privateers ; the many forts that dot the barrier between land and sea are symbols of the resistance and battles that secured Portuguese independence and national interests.

Its fortifications had been laid out by Major Joseph Gilbert Totten, Izard's senior Engineer officer, and consisted of three redoubts and two blockhouses, linked by other fieldworks.

Its massive fortifications, which were considered state of the art until the modern age, are also largely intact.

Its fortifications were destroyed by the French in 1807.

Its wealth attracted the raids of pirates, against which fortifications such as Fort San Juan de Ulúa were built.

Its integrity had been fatally compromised in May 1989 when a reformist Communist government in Hungary, supported by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, began to dismantle its border fortifications.

Its oldest origins are indeterminate and the oldest fortifications on this site may date back to the Iron Age, later being used as a Norman Motte-and-bailey castle which was reportedly destroyed and replaced in a short period during the 13th century.

Its roles include mobility assurance, road breaching, defense and fortifications, counter-mobility of enemy forces, construction and destruction under fire, sabotage, explosives, bomb disposal, counter-NBC and special engineering missions.

Its brief was to enquire into the state and sufficiency of fortifications existing and planned for defending the UK, with a specific focus on naval dockyards.

Its builders intended that Murney ( then Murray ) Tower complement the fortifications of Fort Henry, Ontario.

Its main fortifications were pointed seaward, while the land defences encircled the city at a distance of 15 – 20 km and the inner belt at a range of 5 km.

The Defenses of Washington D. C. was a short lived command, from September 2, 1862 through February 2, 1863. used for the consolidation of all the defenses of the area including and surrounding Washington, D. C. Its main focus was on the maintaining of the fortifications in extending in a ring around Washington, D. C.

Its ancient fortifications have disappeared but its central area is characterized by a wide streets radiating from the principal thoroughfare of Main Street.

Its fortifications were demolished in 1807.

Its construction was started in 1872 by the British, as part of a program of improvements to Malta's fortifications recommended in Colonel Jervois's Report of 1866 titled " Memorandum with reference to the improvements to the defences of Malta and Gibraltar, rendered necessary by the introduction of Iron Plated Ships and powerful rifled guns ".

Its fortifications included a moat three metres deep, drawbridges, bastions, buttresses, ramparts, battlements, loopholes, and a catapult.

Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.

Its dangerous effects have been downgraded to the public by some who believe national security requires further testing.

Its usage is mostly restricted to engravings on stone and jewelry, although inscriptions have also been found on bone and wood.

Its front feet have five toes apiece, unlike other the related hyenas that have four toes.

Its symbol Ac is also used in abbreviations of other compounds that have nothing to do with actinium, such as acetyl, acetate and sometimes acetaldehyde.

Its pearls have also been collected for centuries.

Its coastal acquisition may have been one reason yellow amber came to be designated by the same term as ambergris.

Its most important source of revenue, the textile industries, have been dead for almost half a century now.

Its invention is credited to the Celts, the Romans were thought to have adopted their design.

Also, George Soros, Joseph E. Stiglitz ( another Economic Sciences Nobel prize winner, formerly of the World Bank, author of Globalization and Its Discontents ) and David Korten have made arguments for drastically improving transparency, for debt relief, land reform, and restructuring corporate accountability systems.

Its function is to control the expulsion of feces, unwanted semi-solid matter produced during digestion, which, depending on the type of animal, may be one or more of: matter which the animal cannot digest, such as bones ; food material after all the nutrients have been extracted, for example cellulose or lignin ; ingested matter which would be toxic if it remained in the digestive tract ; and dead or excess gut bacteria and other endosymbionts.

Its name implies associations dating back to the time of Columba and, although undocumented before the 12th century, it may have served the monks of the Columban family as an ' Iona of the east ' from early times.

Its development is likely to have been closely connected with the development of human language, which ( whether spoken or written ) appears to both involve and facilitate abstract thinking.

Its F-15 Eagle fighter planes have no similar capability at extremely long ranges.

Its urban settings and historical legacy have made it a popular location for international film productions.

Its phonology includes archaisms ( unstressed and internal, where other dialects have and ) and innovations ( for before and after front-tongue vowels ).

Its partners include some of the biggest players in the worlds of computing, communications, and consumer electronics, and it's loaded with top-notch engineers who have been given a clean slate to reinvent traditional approaches to ubiquitous worldwide communications.

Its unconventional unfolding of plot ( exemplified in its mathematical layout of dialogue ) and its stress on perception have analogs in De Palma's filmmaking.

Its iconic characters such as Dennis the Menace, Roger the Dodger, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, Calamity James, Ball Boy, Ivy the Terrible and Billy Whizz have become known to generations of British children.

Its superb genetic amenability and relatively large size have provided the powerful tools required to investigate a bacterium from all possible aspects.

Its strategic location and excellent infrastructure, with the largest airport in Scandinavia, Kastrup, located 14 minutes by train from the city centre, have made it a regional hub and a popular location for regional headquarters and conventions.

Its unique relief carvings have a naive dynamic quality that contrast with the rigidity of the figures typical of some other periods.

Its historic ties, its long military presence as well as its economic influence have also given it a political influence.

Its rhythm requires Capoeiristas to have a game that is slower and more strategical.