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  • noun French politician who proposed the Maginot Line (1877-1932)

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Examples

  • ‡ The expression Maginot mentality refers to any military strategy that is exclusively defensive and therefore flawed.

    Maginot line 2002

  • If you read the history of World War II, you will find references to something called the Maginot Line.

    Iraq and a hard place Steven Barnes 2008

  • As the country, determined never again to let Germany violate its territory, constructed a 150-mile barrier of forts and bunkers called the Maginot Line, fascismof the homegrown varietyentered by the back door.

    The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

  • As the country, determined never again to let Germany violate its territory, constructed a 150-mile barrier of forts and bunkers called the Maginot Line, fascismof the homegrown varietyentered by the back door.

    The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006

  • André Maginot (1877-1932), four times French minister of war; advocate of military preparedness under whom the fortifications on the eastern French border known as the Maginot

    Ludwig Quidde - Nobel Lecture 1927

  • At the agency, senior officials preferred to rely on polygraphs-lie detectors-as a kind of Maginot line against KGB penetration.

    How Ames Fooled The Cia 2008

  • As Italy has the third-biggest debt market in the world after America and Japan, a bailout package that protects the vulnerable southern flank of Europe looks more and more like a Maginot line.

    George Papandreou: an all too final stand | Editorial 2011

  • Less than five weeks later the French surrendered when the Maginot Line was outflanked by German Panzer tanks.

    George Weiner: Blitzkrieg and Lessons From Egypt George Weiner 2011

  • Less than five weeks later the French surrendered when the Maginot Line was outflanked by German Panzer tanks.

    George Weiner: Blitzkrieg and Lessons From Egypt George Weiner 2011

  • Google Docs has security that makes the Maginot Line look impregnable (check) 3.

    Will Google Win When Microsoft Kills Office 2000? 2009

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