A world of national fortresses will be poorer and gloomier.
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She's showing up unannounced to fortresses to hunt single beings.
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The total population living within these fortresses is now about 2,000.
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They want their schools to be safe sanctuaries, not armed fortresses.
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"We don't want the buildings to look like fortresses," Paradis said.
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The problem with this vision is that walled fortresses are seldom friendly.
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The result has been that most prominent private schools now resemble mini-fortresses.
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Many feel like miniature fortresses, or shelters that suggest both protection and confinement.
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So as the world crumbles around us, we build fortresses in our mind.
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Hongkongers have developed innovative measures of self-defense, from bonfires to makeshift fortresses.
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Two vacant fortresses face one another, their wooden fronts iced-out and incomplete.
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Instead, politicians think turning schools into military fortresses will somehow resolve the issue.
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The new trailer shows off massive explorable worlds, and towering enemies and flying fortresses.
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Some nationalists hope the world will become a network of walled-but-friendly fortresses.
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The worst of the worst were forced out of their systemic fortresses of protection.
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The company excels at turning regular vehicles into rolling bullet and blast proof formidable fortresses.
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They don't believe in either a global empire or in a global network of fortresses.
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"He will never fight us except behind fortified fortresses or behind walls," the man says.
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"I don't want our federal facilities to be fortresses," Mr. Bryant said in an interview.
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Their labor might be called on to build fortresses, monuments, and those ever-looming walls.
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This seems to be where we are now, barricaded in different fortresses of selective memory.
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The instinct to offer parents immediate relief from their anxieties risks making schools into fortresses.
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In November, protesters turned some university campuses into fortresses, stockpiling them with weapons and food.
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Branches frame scenes, painted on sheepskin, of sandstone fortresses and camels along the Silk Road.
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But sea otters whack abalone shells with rocks; octopuses build fortresses by stacking coconut shells.
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Architects like Betsky also balk at this idea of making our everyday spaces into fortresses.
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Long-neglected fortresses, monasteries, palaces, and other historic buildings have been updated with all modern conveniences.
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Dozens of travel guides provide maps and details about Spain's monuments, castles, fortresses, cathedrals and museums.
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In contrast, San Franciscans famously rebelled against the private buses and corporate fortresses tech set up.
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Some are like mini-fortresses, guarded by stone Chinese or British lions, or even Sikh soldiers.
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The key problem with the network of fortresses is that each national fortress wants a bit more land, security and prosperity for itself at the expense of the neighbors, and without the help of universal values and global organisations, rival fortresses cannot agree on any common rules.
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In a word, the "Nationalist International" envisions the world as a network of walled-but-friendly fortresses.
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B-17s are known as the "Flying Fortresses" that helped the Allies win World War II. 4.
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And over time, the GOP's congressional and state fortresses will crumble if the party doesn't change dramatically.
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The glass and masonry fortresses of New York are the focus of our best-read story today.
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"I don't like jails, churches, fortresses, palaces, libraries, museums, nor public statues to the dead," he wrote.
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And it won't be conquered with ladders for storming fortresses or with machetes, but with sheer presence.
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Some high-rise residents began to treat their complexes as fortresses, driving out only in the daylight.
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But not at the expense of innovative fortresses such as the trio of Comcast, Fox and Time Warner.
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For centuries, Eastern European countries such as Estonia relied on walls, watchtowers, and fortresses to keep out invaders.
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Having built fortresses on top of mosques on top of churches, Spain is good at creating new stories.
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A little-known fact about Toronto is that our libraries and other educational facilities look like doom fortresses.
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In 1943, William Wyler brought color cameras aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses on bombing runs over Germany.
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" American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten compared the idea to DeVos attempting to turn schools into "armed fortresses.
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The center of the city is a heavily protected zone of concrete fortresses, razor wire and well-protected checkpoints.
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Through its chain of fortresses and bunkers, Switzerland would keep control of the mountains along with key transit routes.
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Kimball serves as CEO of Texas Armoring, a San Antonio-based company that transforms refined luxury rides into rolling fortresses.
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Per the game's official description: Go behind enemy lines to forge your army, conquer Fortresses and dominate Mordor from within.
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The obsessively monitored fortresses cannot last forever, and they are hardly the natural habitats they were once believed to be.
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Rather than trying to take over fortresses in Middle-earth, you're holding onto the ones you have from invading armies.
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Sponsored fortresses in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite give out more XP and more of the spell energy required to play.
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"The culture of this region is they have built their houses like fortresses," said one of the frontline army commanders.
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Nor is it the case that turning schools into fortresses would necessarily make such shootings significantly less common or deadly.
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MS-13 has long ran its operations from inside Salvadoran prisons, which they often control and use as near fortresses.
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"Teachers and school staff need to ensure schools are safe sanctuaries and not armed fortresses," Randi Weingarten said last week.
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But over several centuries, palaces and fortresses began to rise, and power became concentrated in the hands of a few.
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Those who preach resilience and civic responsibility are often the people who have built themselves little fortresses that are city-proof.
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The second thing to note about this vision of friendly fortresses is that it has been tried—and it failed spectacularly.
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Epic continues to add zany new items like a structure-destroying ATV, deployable fortresses, and invisibility stones to mix it up.
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Governments throughout the world are increasingly restricting immigration, imposing high tariffs, censoring foreign ideas and turning their countries into walled fortresses.
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Each national fortress will protect its unique identity and interests, but all the fortresses could nevertheless co-operate and trade peacefully.
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My day became infinitely better when I scrolled past photos of the kittens attempting to climb out of their Lego fortresses.
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This is frankly confounding: why would you decide to watch an awards show over undead dragons melting fortresses with ice-fire?
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In mid-November, students turned several university campuses into fortresses, barricading themselves inside and clashing with riot police on the periphery.
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There are lookout towers and walled fortresses, placid farmhouse settlements and destroyed cities that exist in a permanent state of rubble.
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In 1943, he and his crew brought 16mm color cameras aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses on bombing runs over Germany.
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They remind me of the vast digital fortresses my eight-year-old son constructs in Minecraft, bristling with trap doors and turrets.
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As orcs become more powerful leaders, their influence will also influence regional fortresses found throughout Mordor, as well as their surrounding areas.
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Finally, Google and Amazon are using network effects to amass fortresses of data that will fend off competitors for generations to come.
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An expanding wealth gap, resources wars and climate disasters are pushing people to migrate to the few stable fortresses, or die trying.
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In Shadow of War, you can infiltrate fortresses before you attempt to overtake them by placing a spy in the enemy ranks.
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The conventional wisdom in America is that concert halls have too often seemed like fortresses, and must become more down to earth.
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Turning our smartphones into personal data fortresses requires the use of strong passwords — and never using the same password for different services.
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These job seekers are treated as migrants in their own capital, because China's biggest cities are fortresses of official privilege, especially Beijing.
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Washington has been the main critic of China's efforts to build fortresses atop reefs, rocks and islands in the South China Sea.
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Island fortresses The subject of China, and Chinese activity in the South China Sea, is likely to loom large over the visit.
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Embassies have been designed more like fortresses ever since, and the security measures protecting them rigorously maintained.. So much for having fun.
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Like the jail, the new schools are engineering marvels, red brick fortresses raised more than 20163 feet on a forest of columns.
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He ran his hands along the ramparts of forgotten fortresses and felt the dampness in the crypt-like passages of mystical shrines.
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They ranged from small, ordinary-seeming houses with just a handful of cells to imposing stone fortresses with watchtowers and thousands of inmates.
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Nowhere is this truer than in the realm of nonpublic educational choice, where both sides have built veritable fortresses atop their chosen positions.
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We castigated this man for building a dumb, useless wall until we begged him to advise us to make fortresses of our homes.
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Many people have only one or two options when they fly because the big airlines have established virtual fortresses at their hub airports.
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The player then has about 20 minutes to build fortresses, find supplies and take-down other players until the last man is standing.
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But one thing is for sure, STREIT armored SHERPs would still look like irresistibly fun ATVs to drive, but would be exceptionally fortified fortresses.
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To that end, Talion will be recruiting orcs and building his own army in order to take down the heavily fortified fortresses across Mordor.
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Nevertheless, governments all over the world are undermining the foundations of the liberal order, and the world is turning into a network of fortresses.
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From ancient fortresses to dramatic waterfalls, we've pulled together the ultimate ballooning destinations around the world where you can go up, up, and away.
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I spent the summer of 2016 playing pick up ball and visiting courts ranging from the small towns in Bosnia to fortresses in Belgrade.
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"There are no Mochica fortresses, there are temples," says Ricardo Morales of the University of Trujillo, who directs the Huaca de la Luna site.
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It's easy to see the appeal in Palma's colourful buildings, beaches, fortresses, and art scene — especially when it sits right on the Mediterranean Sea.
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They might be content to be fortresses that hoard their money, while the best and brightest pay mostly only lip service to societal health.
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In response to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Trump demanded that the government arm teachers and turn schools into fortresses to curb gun violence.
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Since 1928, the Spanish government has encouraged tourism in these remote locales by transforming neglected fortresses, monasteries, palaces, and other historic buildings into boutique hotels.
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The CCA team thinks structures like this island could protect coastal homes from flooding by acting as giant fortresses that buffer against strong ocean waves.
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From the harbor, gravel paths extend along the coast and into the interior, leading to the ruins of a 248th-century hospital and various fortresses.
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Certain locations are dominated on the map by fortresses (gyms), where players can team up together to fight more powerful foes in Wizard Challenges (gym battles).
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But in War, they become your army — and with the orcs at your side, you can storm entire fortresses and claim them for the Bright Lord.
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A more patient player might attempt to attack war chiefs when they're away from their fortresses — though they will themselves be surrounded by well armed bodyguards.
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From P-19433D Mustangs and Flying Fortresses through to anti-aircraft spotters and flame hurling tanks, these images cast the war in a vibrant new light.
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We stopped at hot springs and hiked to the ruins of Zoroastrian and Buddhist temples and fortresses that once formed a network along the Silk Road.
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Jewish proprietors set up self-contained hospitality fortresses in the 1920s, which later gave Jewish families a place to summer when they were discriminated against elsewhere.
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The riders will pedal along empty sandy beaches, fjords, Viking ruins, fortresses defending immaculate medieval towns, and the burial grounds known as the birthplace of Denmark.
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While about 13,000 rolled off the assembly line, only a handful of the Flying Fortresses still take to the air, usually for air shows and special events.
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Flak Tower IV — one of two towers — was built in 1942 as an anti-aircraft bunker and was one of the Nazis' biggest fortresses, according to Hamburg.com.
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Millions of dollars are spent annually turning our schools into fortresses, and for what…so these attacks can move to our churches, movie theaters, and shopping centers?
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It was easy to build barricades across narrow streets made—as the revolutionaries of "Les Misérables" do—with household furniture and goods, turning neighbourhoods into mini-fortresses.
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EJ: I am skeptical, just because a big part of Halo is, you're traveling across a lot of distances, you're going down underground into these underground fortresses.
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Explorer Ancient fortresses, crisp mountain streams, curious people and healing cities: Travelers are discovering the Kurdish region of Iraq, a place of great beauty, haunted by war.
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Under a November full moon, hundreds of young people dressed in black set about turning several of Hong Kong's top universities into fortresses, well stocked with improvised weapons.
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Visiting another hotel that morning, I'd stepped out of the breakfast room and found myself on the battlements of a cluster of fortresses known to Venetians and Crusaders.
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Tourists can walk along the cannon-studded ramparts of slave fortresses or pass through the points of 'No Return', where slaves were marched in chains to waiting ships.
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Castle aficionados, particularly those who know a thing or two about the castles that dot the countryside of Europe, scoff at these Americanized versions of ancient European fortresses.
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Ms Darke is a journalist and travel writer, and much of her early time in Syria was spent walking its hills and exploring its mosques, churches, monasteries and fortresses.
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They're fortresses of steel, dads; the only thing that will get them going is weird, unimportant stuff, like a sick terrier pulling through or their team winning a championship.
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Simply being aware that they are available for purchase reduces the immersion in the world and takes away from the challenge of building your personal army and your fortresses.
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Many believe that fortresses protect from external and internal threats, but the reality is that for the former you need an army and for the latter you need consensus.
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"Betsy DeVos wants to turn schools into armed fortresses and make kids and educators less safe," Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said in a statement.
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There are also legitimate combat encounters (both at fortresses and more rarely, in the regular map) that require a back and forth rhythm of attack and defense spells to succeed.
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When the staff began putting out real pebbles for the nest-making birds to start building their little fortresses, Sphen and Magic started collecting them, just like the other penguins.
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But on Friday, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren lobbed a bomb onto that battlefield, designed to crack the fortresses that have formed around tech monopolies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
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The virus runs out of steam ramming the doors of impenetrable fortresses before it can reach those who are too young to be vaccinated or whose immune systems are weak.
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Perhaps he returned to his office on Park Row in a jollier mood than usual when he sat down to write an editorial about the Quadrilateral fortresses of northern Italy.
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I can't look at this video without thinking about how jealously protective I was of my cars in H1Z1, or the paranoia-fueled Fortresses of Solitude I built in Rust.
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These are not bourgeois artworks, but a nobleman's possessions intended to make a striking impression of power upon his visitors, showing the temples, fortresses, and thriving cities within his domain.
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Even in its more designed and controlled spaces, like fortresses, it's a game that tries so hard to make the unexpected happen that it comes across as busy and predictable.
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"And on having a magnet implanted in his hand and hovering said magnet-hand near electrical outlets: "I can feel fortresses of industry miles away burning prehistoric hydrocarbons by the megaton.
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China's crude maps show the belt and road running through disputed territory, including the bitterly contested waters of the South China Sea where China has been busy building fortresses on reefs.
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In Shadow of War, instead of just taking down warchiefs, you'll be taking on overlords reigning over their fortresses and strongholds, too, in what the developers are calling fort conquest missions.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Under a November full moon, hundreds of young people dressed in black set about turning several of Hong Kong's top universities into fortresses, well stocked with improvised weapons.
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The often sprawling buildings with multiple exits, where pupils can simply be sitting ducks would require a massive building program of fortresses along the lines of terror proof US embassies abroad.
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" And, as Schumpeter saw it, the publicly traded corporation, lacking the visceral allegiance of private property, was capitalism's weak point: "Defenseless fortresses invite aggression especially if there is rich booty in them.
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Real estate experts say the biggest mansions in Palm Beach are built to withstand major storms, "These homes are fortresses," said Senada Adzem, a leading luxury broker in Florida with Douglas Elliman.
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Though we need to understand and feel the depth of our dilemma, panic will only make it harder for us to simplify, to retreat from our fortresses of wealth, to back off.
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A 1.4-million-square-mile sea presents a kaleidoscope of shifting variables: hundreds of disputed shoals, thousands of fishing boats, coast guard vessels and warships and, increasingly, a collection of Chinese fortresses.
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When the average person thinks of a Volvo, images of hilariously rectangular brown station wagons come to mind — much more often than thoughts of the decadently-upholstered, tastefully-appointed rolling Swedish fortresses.
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On five campuses in the Chinese-ruled territory, students armed with medieval-type weaponry turned their universities into rebel fortresses, amid a growing sense by many that sustained peaceful protests were futile.
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The soon-to-be Unesco-listed stone fortresses of Rijal Alma were once home to wealthy traders and fearsome fighters — but they felt more like an Instagrammable backdrop than a historic site.
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This is 2016, after all, an era in which we build giant, floating sea fortresses and have apps on our phones that can predict when it's going to rain down to the minute.
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Bruz is also in this set, and their whole purpose is to exist as dominated yes-men (they're all gendered male) for Talion's surging campaign of taking over all the fortresses of Mordor.
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He's got fortresses and moats to keep me out, but I know that part of him is in the turret calling for help, hoping to be saved — from what, I don't know yet.
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Fortresses are large, obvious locations on the map where you and up to four other players can join battle against a host of enemies in order to receive rare foundables and other rewards.
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Though we were given a glimpse at some tougher fortresses — the ones deeper into Mordor, by Mount Doom — this particular fortress is more entry-level and takes place earlier on in the game.
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By 2010, as American military numbers rose to 100,000, American and other coalition troops were in every one of the 34 Afghan provinces, often scattered — as the Soviets had been — in isolated fortresses.
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The worst outcome of a push to regulate big tech companies would be a set of rules that made it easier for people to exploit these companies' power, while leaving their fortresses intact.
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He inspected fortresses, made maps, and designed weapons—he may also have acted as a spy for Florence—as Borgia conquered towns through central Italy in a trail of slaughter that rattled even Machiavelli.
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Lisbon has it all: world-class cuisine for the gastronomically inclined, ancient fortresses, art and architecture for the cultured traveler, and a vibrant local bar, music and night life scene for everyone in between.
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More importantly, they're men who've shored themselves up, emotionally and professionally, in their respective fortresses, allowing a carefully selected series of lovers into their spaces and having them shooed out when they're no longer wanted.
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This particular structure seems to have been inspired by medieval fortresses and science fiction movies, as well as the work of Paul Noble and his multi-year drawing project creating a fictional city, Nobson Newtown.
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They use historical data and patterns to turn predictive and proactive assessments into decisions, and together they are building impenetrable fortresses that frustrate hitters who can't find ways to spray the ball around the field.
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Through every major city in Spain, foreigners engulf monuments and parks, meandering up and down castles, fortresses, museums, cathedrals, and, at the Alhambra in Granada, napping in the shade of foliage in the manicured gardens.
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Suddenly, his modest red and white home is protected by a nearly two-mile-long steel security fence affixed with lights and cameras, making it among the most secure and impenetrable fortresses in the country.
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A determined hiker, John led us up scraggly paths to explore mountain fortresses: one built in the fifth century above the Turkish city of Artanuc, another above Borjomi, an old Soviet spa town in Georgia.
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He described to me how he had saved box tops from cold cereals like Post Toasties, and redeemed them by mail for Junior G-Man badges or cardboard Flying Fortresses that carried payloads of black marbles.
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Although high-speed internet and modern transportation systems are key elements of the Smart City project, in this city of imposing fortresses and palaces, it has caused authorities to take on the problem of child labor.
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This week in nerd currency, Minecraft — the computer game in which kids spend hours building "Game of Thrones"-style fortresses and entire worlds, digitally — plans to introduce its own in-game currency in the near future.
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"Our goal is to make Ice Castles be like the frozen version of going to Disneyland," construction overseer Jesse Stone says of amusement fortresses that are also located in Utah, Minnesota, Colorado, New Hampshire and Alberta, Canada.
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Areva defends the plutonium shipments, saying they are coordinated with state authorities, have armed escorts and are housed in containers that are "real fortresses" secured by 100 kg (220 pounds) of steel for every kg of plutonium.
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Her photo, "Molotov Man," which shows a young man heaving a homemade bomb at one of the last national guard fortresses, became a defining symbol of the revolution, and is on T-shirts, billboards, and brochures throughout Nicaragua.
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The key problem with the network of fortresses is that each national fortress wants a bit more land, security and prosperity for itself at the expense of the neighbors Many people would think this is quite a reasonable vision.
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Roll through downtown Kisumu, Kenya on a Sunday—past the industrial fortresses, through the groups of lounging men blasting reggae or Luo songs, just off the north shore of Lake Victoria, onto the main drag—and you'll see Barclays.
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The image of buildings as timeless fortresses, even if numbers suggests otherwise, is too ingrained in the Western culture (in Japan, for example, cultural attitude is different, and it's acceptable to design buildings with a relatively shorter useful life).
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" In the most verbose and flowery challenge yet, Joseph Paddon called out the "two impregnable fortresses" of James and Elizabeth Stokes to take on him and his student whom he "trained from her Cradle to the Toils of War.
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I commissioned her for a round of Fortnite, and once we dropped onto the map, Sunny's demeanor became serious and her gameplay seriously good, as she quickly built protective fortresses from which she trained a shotgun on enemies' heads.
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Clash of Clans, a war strategy game in which players build fortresses, form clans with other players and battle it out in a Medieval-style fantasy world, has remained on the list of top-earning applications since its launch in 13.
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Built in 1906 to fill a gap in Manhattan's defense network, the redoubt at Lexington Avenue and East 25th Street was designed as a Beaux-Arts bastion in an era when other armories were still being modeled on medieval fortresses.
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Yet, rather than fighting for a basic income, higher minimum wages, and a necessary redistribution of wealth, and considering why the local economy needs migrants, the public is focused on building imaginary fortresses to stop globalization and protect national citizens.
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There's this incredibly powerful idea in popular psychology that personality lies along a spectrum of chattiness: extroverts on one side, all drawing their energy from socializing, and then, on the other, introverts, who tap into their power within fortresses of solitude.
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It emerged from a short film she made in 2014, and incorporates an 86-minute film shot partly among the ruined desert fortresses of Karakalpakstan, plus a live element in which seven young women perform an original score of traditional music.
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Gorons don't play by your gender rules In case you need to brush up on your Zelda lore, the Gerudo tribe is made up entirely of women who don't allow males, otherwise known as "voe," to enter their towns and fortresses.
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Wars tend to become chronological lists of commanders replaced, troops moved, fortresses taken and lost, as the same players — Sweden, Poland, the Ottomans, later Prussia, France, Britain — jostle for prominence on the great chessboard of Europe and later the world.
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Three years (1942-1945) of death-defying bombing runs by the Eighth's Flying Fortresses over cities like Berlin, Dresden and Hanover were, for much of the war, the only battles Allied forces waged inside the territorial borders of Nazi Germany.
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I began my first journey with a 10-day road trip with my husband, Omer, through Andalusia in a rented Fiat, hurtling on a smooth stretch of highway through golden hills and olive groves and white villages and ancient Arab fortresses.
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In recent weeks, perhaps in anticipation of legal fortresses built by the Sacklers to guard their fortune, which Forbes estimated to be about $13 billion, more states, including Virginia, New Mexico and Delaware, filed cases against members of the family.
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High-resolution aerial images of China's reclamation efforts in the Spratly Islands, recently obtained by the Philippine Inquirer newspaper, show that the reefs and sandbars have been turned into island fortresses, with ports, air strips, lighthouses, hangars and multi-story buildings.
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Jaipur city administration vowed in January to make the city of fortresses and palaces free of child labor, in a campaign which includes creating a pool of counselors to help the police and lawyers work with victims to boost conviction rates.
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Relentless cyberattacks over the past year have exposed the confidential personal information of at least half of all Americans; undermined faith in fundamental pillars of our democracy; and penetrated the electronic fortresses protecting some of our most highly-classified secrets.
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In the past, waypoints were things either natural to the world—that one weird tree, the sharp plateau in the distance—or things placed in the world by those who held the authority to erect watchtowers and fortresses, train yards and taverns.
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In addition to DHS's livestock research facility, Plum Island is also home to ruins from armaments and fortresses built during World War I and II, pristine beaches, a lighthouse built in 1898, and even packs of gregarious harbor seals in the winter.
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This vulnerability is an inextricable element of the human condition, even if the wealthiest Americans have the resources to erect fortresses around themselves — not necessarily of objects but of infrastructure, building personal safety nets while their fellow citizens scramble to make do.
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Which isn't to say that other, less tangible factors didn't also play a large part – notably a shattering of the collective aura once held by the division's higher powers, the fortresses of Anfield, the Emirates, Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge being reduced to bouncy castles.
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And the modern tools of map-drawing — powerful computers and software, and an unprecedented cascade of data on voters — have allowed drafters to turn political districts into near-impregnable fortresses that can sustain a party's hold on power from one redistricting cycle to the next.
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The stone villages in the southern part of the island, near the mastic groves, were built in the manner of fortresses — with high exterior walls, only a few entrances and labyrinthine layouts — to foil any attempts by invaders to steal the resin stored there.
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With gnarled forests in Northern Ireland, vast glaciers in Iceland, and ancient medieval fortresses in Croatia, GoT's locations are the antithesis of the cheap studio-sets-only of TV in the 1950s and 60s and even the exterior shots of the 1970s and 80s.
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The home invasion trope works by turning the house itself into a metaphor for strength and security; houses in home invasion films are usually either impressive fortresses for rich people, cozy middle-class bungalows hidden away in the woods, or some combination of the two.
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The Luftrauser itself obviously was a 'superweapon', the team agreed, belonging to the realm of the imagination rather than to reality, and to a historic era of superpowers spying on one another, looking for evidence of fantastic weaponry like submerging airplanes, flying fortresses and armed dolphins.
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American companies are outsourcing to Mexico, and China is devaluing its currency while "building fortresses on the South China Sea," Trump said at the rally, proposing to slap a 35 percent tariff on imported products from American companies that have outsourced their jobs and tax China's exports.
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Billed as a group show governed by a common interest in digital printing, it celebrates years of fruitful friendship both in and out of the studio — and the informal layout, which includes a mattress floor and plywood fortresses, is more reminiscent of a clubhouse than an exhibition.
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As I learned from talking with Rajnish Wattas, the former principal of the Chandigarh College of Architecture, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was determined to make a new capital city that would be the pride of modern India, with no references to a past of palaces and fortresses.
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Although the boundaries of the Tao-Klarjeti kingdom, as it is sometimes called, once part of a larger realm ruled by the Bagratid dynasty, had vanished from the map by the 11th century, its Georgian rulers left behind an astonishing collection of churches, monasteries and fortresses.
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At just 63 miles, less than half the distance of some of this Tour's longest stages, the up-down, up-down, up-down route through the Ariege region of mountain cheeses and peak-perched fortresses delivered exactly what Tour organizers were hoping for: full-on racing.
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Pontiac made anti-aircraft guns; Oldsmobile churned out cannons; Studebaker built engines for Flying Fortresses; Nash-Kelvinator produced propellers for British de Havillands; Hudson Motors fabricated wings for Helldivers and P-211 fighters; Buick manufactured tank destroyers; Fisher Body built thousands of M27 Sherman tanks; Cadillac turned out more than 26,0003 light tanks.
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Even more beloved than the glowing dance fortresses, neon disco clam palaces, and fire-breathing dragons, What The Festival's crown jewel is it's splash pool, a permanent fixture on a vista atop the gorgeous grounds, where everyone from Jai Wolf to Le Youth performed to a crowd that was equal parts sexy and surrealist.
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The message of the past several years is clear: No matter how big and successful you are as a consumer-facing media, communications or advertising company, you'll eventually end up in the same boat, butting up against the shore of the island where Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook have constructed their impregnable fortresses.
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But it really shouldn't have been a surprise — God's Not Dead is precisely calibrated to evoke both cable news talking points about college campuses as intolerant fortresses of liberalism, and a particular school of urban legends about the humiliation of nonbelieving professors, variations of which have been circulated in email forwards and turned up in a Chick tract.
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" On Tuesday, a day after students lobbed Molotov cocktails and fired arrows at police officers who had trapped them inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Daily, a state-run English-language newspaper, described Hong Kong's campuses as "fortresses of terrorist activities," and warned of separatists "conspiring with foreign forces" to turn Hong Kong into a "bridgehead to subvert China.
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