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  • noun Plural form of stronghold.

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Examples

  • The rush for the enemy's main strongholds is about to take place.

    The Plans Unfold 1944

  • But releasing albums is only part of the equation: It's the hustle of getting paid by his distributors and proudly paying his musicians; it's keeping people interested in the music even as jazz and independent-label strongholds and brick-and-mortar record stores fade from view, cutting his sales, he estimates, by half.

    A Label With Swing to Spare Tad Hendrickson 2011

  • Most say that the Taliban has gotten stronger, especially in strongholds like Kandahar province (49 percent) and Herat province (63 percent).

    What The Thunder Said | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • But releasing albums is only part of the equation: It's the hustle of getting paid by his distributors and proudly paying his musicians; it's keeping people interested in the music even as jazz and independent-label strongholds and brick-and-mortar record stores fade from view, cutting his sales, he estimates, by half.

    A Label With Swing to Spare Tad Hendrickson 2011

  • The Italian commander, General Luigi Cardorna, sought to seize the Austro-Hungarian mountain strongholds before seasoned Austrian divisions could arrive from the Galician Front.

    Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

  • That they have lost privious strongholds is good for democracy because it shows that voters punish those who dont deliver.

    McCain says GOP woes mean a tough road ahead 2008

  • When they come pouring out of their mountain strongholds, everyone of them armed to the teeth and trained to be a supersoldiering KILLING MACHINE by their National Service.

    Archive 2006-01-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • When they come pouring out of their mountain strongholds, everyone of them armed to the teeth and trained to be a supersoldiering KILLING MACHINE by their National Service.

    Weird Habits Meme Hal Duncan 2006

  • Although dated, this source contains a valuable collection of high-medieval Western writers who discuss the Old Man and the Assassins, a Shi'ite sect known as the Ismaili, who controlled several mountain strongholds throughout Syria during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • This is an overwhelmingly democratic town where certain strongholds not effected by the parkway had terrible turn out.

    Searls Reflects on Council Loss at cvillenews.com 2002

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