These bases were prepared in advance, often by capturing an estate and augmenting its defences with surrounding ditches, ramparts and palisades.

These defences became known as the Devil's gardens and are for the most part still there, especially the extensive minefields.

These defences were the strongest of any town in Scotland in the Middle Ages.

These were not designed to directly penetrate defences, though they could do this ( for example the Valentin submarine pens had ferrous concrete roofs 7 metres ( 23 ft ) thick which were penetrated by two Grand Slams on 27 March 1945 ), but rather to penetrate under the target and explode leaving a camouflet ( cavern ) which would undermine foundations of structures above, causing it to collapse, thus negating any possible hardening.

These are called " dike ring areas " because they are protected by a ring of primary sea defences.

These acceptable risks were enshrined in the Delta law, requiring the government to keep risks of catastrophic flooding within these limits and to upgrade defences should new insights into risks require this.

These defences can still be clearly discerned as a group of four roughly square areas around the centre of the town and are probably the best preserved such fortifications in England.

These coastal defences marked a shift away from castles, which were both military fortifications and domestic buildings, towards forts, which were garrisoned but not domestic ; often the 1540s are chosen as a transition date for the study of castles as a consequence.

These included the construction of defences around the submerged piers forming the bases of the main towers in the event of collision in the Firth.

These channels were laid in the 16th century as the external moats of the town's defences.

These defences succeeded in stopping the German armoured pincers from meeting and enveloping the salient.

These defences were hastily constructed, but they were not small works: No. 1 redoubt held a garrison of 600 Turks, whilst redoubts 2, 3, and 4 each held 300 ; all were accompanied by one British artillery NCO.

These defences were later rebuilt and a third bank added on all sides except the south east where the hill's steep slope made further strengthening unnecessary.

These defences were accessed by a wall-walk known as a chemin de ronde.

These reserves were committed as the battle progressed resulting in the British gaining a foothold in the Turkish defences but the British commander called off the attack as night fell.

These movements precipitated the occupying Continental Army, an under-strength force of 3, 000 under the command of General Arthur St. Clair, to withdraw from Ticonderoga and the surrounding defences.

These six defences, in conjunction, permit one to effectively rearrange external experiences to eliminate the need to cope with reality.

These are the " psychotic " defences, common in overt psychosis.

These are the so-called " immature " defences and overuse almost always leads to serious problems in a person's ability to cope effectively.

These defences are often seen in major depression and personality disorders.

These defences help us to integrate conflicting emotions and thoughts, whilst still remaining effective.

These fortifications, along with Fort Denison, were intended to strengthen the defences of Sydney Harbour, as it was feared that the Russians might attack.

These fortifications were apparently older than the Theodosian Walls, probably dating to sometime in the 4th century, and were then connected to the new city walls under Theodosius II, with the western wall forming the outer face of the city's defences and the eastern wall fell into disrepair.

These defences were often reused during the unstable post-Roman period.

These were the ones Keith sought out -- the loners, the ones who killed for the joy of it, like himself.

These were the last words he ever uttered.

These two were going to be easy pickins.

These performances were being staged at historical monuments throughout Europe.

These were Oneida Indians.

These conceptions and the manner in which they were transposed into poetry or engendered by poetic form are intrinsic to western life from the time of Aeschylus to that of Shakespeare.

These basic ideas concerning the nature of religion were, Adams believed, some of the major keys to the understanding of history and the movement of society.

These were his public academic activities, domi forisque, in the college and in the university.

These early experiments were evidently not altogether satisfying to Patchen.

These people were not talking much about it, but you, a foreigner, sensed their apprehension and disappointment.

These public efforts were rare because Mr. Rayburn normally did his counseling, persuading and educating long before an issue reached its test on the House floor.

These microfossils indicate the swamp was `` formed during the Lower Cretaceous period when dinosaurs were at their heyday and when the first flowering plants were just appearing.

These were heroes nine feet tall to him ''.

These little songs, however, were sweet nothings from the heart, tender memories of his childhood, little melodies that anyone could hum and that would make one want to weep.

These were the ships of His Majesty's Navy, herding the hulks of the East Indies merchants and the yachts and ketches of the loyalists.

These trumps were more touching than they were anything else, and seemed to imply that the nights were long, her children ungrateful, and her marriage bewilderingly threadbare.

These were selected carefully and included not only detailed clinical information but adequate pathology of value for research and educational purposes.

These amendments to the Vocational Rehabilitation Act were designed to help provide for more specialized rehabilitation facilities, for more sheltered and `` half-way '' workshops, for greater numbers of adequately trained personnel, for more comprehensive services to individuals ( particularly to the homebound and the blind ), and for other administrative improvements to increase the program's overall effectiveness.

These plans, like Du Pont's, contained provisions for passing the vote on Du Pont's General Motors shares on to the ultimate stockholders of Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, except that officers and directors of the three companies, their spouses, and other people living in their households, as well as other specified persons, were to be totally disenfranchised.

These curves were derived by an analysis of extensive skywave measurement data.

These were educated men, who, as Mr. Justice Holmes was fond of saying, formed their inductions out of experience under the burden of responsibility.

These boys acknowledged an introduction to anybody by gently pressing one of his hands in both of theirs, while they gazed, misty-eyed with care, into the eyes of the person they were meeting.