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Europe is seen as akin to a medieval fortress, with the countries of the continent either inside its walls and safe or outside, isolated and vulnerable.
But lack of progress in such countries threatens to make Europe a continent divided: half a fortress of the rich, the other a volatile cauldron of the poor.
In pursuing it, immigrants may also begin to free their longer-established fellow Europeans from their attachment to a fortress that, if taken to extremes, could well become a prison for all.
If the EU is a fortress, Moria camp is its torture chamber, with nightmarish conditions that have been well documented.
Europe as an area of economic integration would not be "anti-historical," provided that Europe does not become a fortress closed to the rest of the world.
The first is that the pound sterling, and the British economy generally, may yet be badly buffeted by the unpredictable repercussions of the financial crisis in Asia; whereas the single currency area may prove a fortress of calm and stability.
The narrative that Russia is under attack has long dominated Kremlin propaganda, with Putin positioning himself as the commander of a fortress besieged – militarily, economically, and even in the domain of international sports – by a hostile West.
Of course, ASEAN should not build a fortress that keeps out the world.
Propaganda focuses on the military victories of Russia’s “1,000-year history” (copyright: Vladimir Putin), in order to reinforce the image of Russia as a fortress besieged by the hostile West.
Turning Europe into a fortress, undermining freedom of movement across the continent, tightening borders, and ignoring legal – as well as moral – obligations to protect the vulnerable is a failing strategy.
Faced with a humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean, the EU has responded by trying to build a fortress.
But the fortress has merely rechanneled, rather than stemmed, the flow of people, forcing migrants and refugees to attempt dangerous sea crossings – even as search and rescue operations are being scaled back.
Thanks to these measures, Europe has become a de facto fortress against migration.
Stevens, who championed a more comprehensive approach, would have been devastated to witness the fortress that the US embassy became after his death.
To accommodate his security needs, the hotel had been converted into a fortress, much like Israel itself.
This victory represented a slight crack in the well-guarded fortress of Indian politics, which had long been reserved for a small and largely hereditary circle.
Indeed, US history reveals a persistent isolationist streak, in which the “city upon a hill" is not a beacon, but a fortress.
In this sense, the tax plan would be another brick – not a huge brick, but a medium-size brick – in the increasingly impregnable fortress of American plutocracy.
The deserted square, obstructed by great motionless shadows, seemed like the corner of an abandoned fortress.
They were no more disturbed by the presence of these man-eaters than soldiers in an armored fortress are troubled by ants running over the armor plate.
'How different for me,' he said with a sigh, 'if I were arriving in this noble fortress to be a sublieutenant in one of the regiments entrusted with its defence!'Besancon is not merely one of the most charming towns in France, it abounds in men and women of feeling and spirit.
To this the captain made no reply, but grated his teeth, in a way that showed the fortress of his mouth was not to be assailed without a resolute resistance; and the experienced physician changed the subject by saying,- "It is a pity, John, that you did not catch the rascal, after the danger and trouble you incurred."
Laurent, in fact, was afraid of Francois, particularly since the latter passed his time on the knees of the impotent old lady, as if in the centre of an impregnable fortress, whence he could with impunity set his eyes on his enemy.
Don Quixote, observing the respectful bearing of the Alcaide of the fortress (for so innkeeper and inn seemed in his eyes), made answer,"Sir Castellan, for me anything will suffice, for'My armour is my only wear, My only rest the fray.'"
"That is the truth," answered Don Quixote, "and there is no use in troubling oneself about these matters of enchantment or being angry or vexed at them, for as they are invisible and visionary we shall find no one on whom to avenge ourselves, do what we may; rise, Sancho, if thou canst, and call the alcaide of this fortress, and get him to give me a little oil, wine, salt, and rosemary to make the salutiferous balsam, for indeed I believe I have great need of it now, because I am losing much blood from the wound that phantom gave me."
In short he felt that while Anselmo's absence afforded time and opportunity he must press the siege of the fortress, and so he assailed her self-esteem with praises of her beauty, for there is nothing that more quickly reduces and levels the castle towers of fair women's vanity than vanity itself upon the tongue of flattery.
"That saying does not hold good in your case," replied Leonela, "for love, as I have heard say, sometimes flies and sometimes walks; with this one it runs, with that it moves slowly; some it cools, others it burns; some it wounds, others it slays; it begins the course of its desires, and at the same moment completes and ends it; in the morning it will lay siege to a fortress and by night will have taken it, for there is no power that can resist it; so what are you in dread of, what do you fear, when the same must have befallen Lothario, love having chosen the absence of my lord as the instrument for subduing you? and it was absolutely necessary to complete then what love had resolved upon, without affording the time to let Anselmo return and by his presence compel the work to be left unfinished; for love has no better agent for carrying out his designs than opportunity; and of opportunity he avails himself in all his feats, especially at the outset.
Know that Camilla's fortress has surrendered and is ready to submit to my will; and if I have been slow to reveal this fact to thee, it was in order to see if it were some light caprice of hers, or if she sought to try me and ascertain if the love I began to make to her with thy permission was made with a serious intention.
They took prisoner Don Pedro Puertocarrero, commandant of the Goletta, who had done all in his power to defend his fortress, and took the loss of it so much to heart that he died of grief on the way to Constantinople, where they were carrying him a prisoner.
They called out and knocked loudly at the gate of the inn, which was still shut; on seeing which, Don Quixote, even there where he was, did not forget to act as sentinel, and said in a loud and imperious tone, "Knights, or squires, or whatever ye be, ye have no right to knock at the gates of this castle; for it is plain enough that they who are within are either asleep, or else are not in the habit of throwing open the fortress until the sun's rays are spread over the whole surface of the earth.
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