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52 examples of Stronghold in a sentence

And this is a very much left-wing Labour stronghold.
But as Stepan and his men ride towards their stronghold, peace is far from their minds.
The villain's stronghold is a bit different, appearing as a white castle-like fortress in the middle of the desert from a distance.
I was wondering as I watched this on Starz last night why every sleazy American gangster type always has a stronghold in the Phillipines and wears a white Steve Martin suit.
His mission is to retrieve the Cannons, destroy a rebel stronghold and bring Cordova back alive.
Then wait for brass to plan a way to knock out their stronghold, and then end up killing a few civilians in the process of doing it.
The attack that captures the cannon, when Peppard's orders are not obeyed by a regular army type, is one of the most electrifying visual and staging achievements in cinematic history; the penetration of Cordoba's stronghold, the revelations uncovered there, and the actions that win the mission team a chance at victory--or almost victory--are flawlessly presented.
getting more senior positions until he finally leads the attack against the final government stronghold of Santa Clara.
And, though it is the largest party, it has relatively fewer government posts than the SPD, with no CDU cabinet minister hailing from eastern Germany, an AfD stronghold.
The EU must ensure that it is truly a bastion of free trade, even if America moves to act as a stronghold of protectionism.
In Taiwan’s south, long a DPP stronghold, that approach appears to have paid off.
Sendero, which supplemented its income with drug production and timber smuggling, deliberately chose drought-weakened and deforested mountain villages as the stronghold of its insurgency.
Before long, ISIS is expected also to lose Raqqa, its last stronghold, on which its grip is already slipping.
Benazir Bhutto’s GambleAs the initial shock of the terrorist attacks against Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto fade, it is becoming clear that they were a political boon for her, triggering a wave of public sympathy that extends well beyond her local Sindh stronghold.
These changes create a fertile ground for a fee-based corporate advisory business, an area of banking that has traditionally been a stronghold of US investment banking.
The men at the barricades were persuaded to leave their stronghold; the insurrectionary leaders were either detained or escaped to Spain.
Tragically, the signals from former Taliban in their southern Afghan stronghold of Kandahar were misread.
Naturally, they had to find a relatively civilian-free target, but not necessarily one posing a serious national-security threat, or serving as an important stronghold of the Afghan insurgency.
Yet it never managed to expand its reach beyond its stronghold in the north of the country.
The region was once a stronghold of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), an affiliate of the global terrorist organization.
In Gharbiya governorate, another MB stronghold, he beat Morsi by more than 200,000 votes.
But PACA is also the National Front’s stronghold, which means that Fillon will have to distinguish himself from Le Pen as a right-wing candidate, lest voters decide they would prefer the original to the copy.
A December Turkish-Russian ceasefire plan, and the Astana negotiation process that kicked off last month in the Kazakh capital, fueled more infighting between Arab-led opposition forces and JFS, especially in the overpopulated and relentlessly bombarded opposition stronghold of Idlib.
Even the agreement to allow women and children to leave blockaded areas of the city of Homs – an anti-Assad stronghold – fell far short of international mediators’ vision (and even this achievement seems to be in doubt).
For example, Colombia was a stronghold for the tobacco corporation Philip Morris International two decades ago, and comprehensive tobacco-control legislation in that country was long unthinkable.
At the height of the Soviet-Afghanistan war in the 1980’s, Pakistan was the covert conduit for Filipino Muslim militants passing to and from Afghanistan and back to the island of Mindanao, which has long been a stronghold of Muslim rebels.
Other than in the former communist states of East Germany, the AfD’s strongest performance was in the CSU’s stronghold of Bavaria, which will hold local elections in October.
Moreover, they fear democracy may destroy their key stronghold - the Church's post as the defining element of the national community.
Starting in Mashhad, a large religious city in the country’s northeast and a stronghold of Rouhani’s conservative foes, the protests engulfed a number of smaller towns with a speed and ferocity that few could have predicted.
Although the parliament was not completely stripped of its ability to control the executive, it lost most of its influence and became a stronghold of the opposition to the existing system of power and statehood.
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