How To Use Fortify In A Sentence

Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
Both forces used earth and logs to fortify their defensive fighting positions while fighting the 1864 Overland Campaign.
Plus, too many black children see school as a place where they're supposed to get reprimanded and putting black educators as main executioner; we're essentially fortifying centuries-old traditions of promoting blacks as overseer in the proverbial plantation. Jose Vilson: Why Black/Latino Male Teachers aren't as Effective in the Classroom... Yet
And stake young trees, especially bare-root trees and evergreens, to fortify them against strong winds.
Dinner's not till 8: 30, so fortify yourself with a predinner pisco in the hotel bar.

Faced with weak sales back in 2006, Burger King invested $3m to "fortify" its UK operation and a marketing push has since paid off. The Guardian World News
When it did have to fortify a place, they used a few soldiers, rather than any serious fortification.
Creative projects, on the other hand, fortify you now and in the future.
But the nutrients of the blood of life spilled in penitence help fortify the Sun to win the battle against the Night. Mythology and legends of the Nahua people: part 1
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Bonny Doon Vineyard of Santa Cruz uses grape spirits to fortify Framboise, its raspberry wine.
This usually means finding out who has brought the string, gum and staplers to enable us to hang up our posters, then fortifying ourselves with a last-minute pint.
He felt that to fortify his intelligence was to fortify his hate.
Here is the The Druggist's General Receipt Book's intrepretation of the "Turkish" and "Arabic" dishes of palamoud and racahout as fortifying drinks based on chocolate. The Old Foodie
Bruce was awarded a Purple Heart for his wounds received at the hands of the enemy, as well as a Navy unit Commendation for his assistance in fortifying the infantry position where he was wounded. Media Coverage JUNE 2009
He felt that to fortify his intelligence was to fortify his hate.
This would refortify the teachers unions, which have spent $2.7 million to pass the measure and are the very group most responsible for California's fiscal mess. California Reckoning
Have some hot soup to fortify you against the cold.
It is a habit that will fortify the child's character and help him grow into a well-balanced, beautiful person.
This country will fortify the coastal areas.
Every now and then the scientist and anthropologists discovers new evidences, which fortify India's claim of being culturally most advanced in the ancient times.
For if they fell upon one kind of strictness, unless their care were equal to regulate all other things of like aptness to corrupt the mind, that single endeavour they knew would be but a fond labour; to shut and fortify one gate against corruption, and be necessitated to leave others round about wide open. Areopagitica
Lamb's defects were his qualities, and nature drove them inward, concentrating, fortifying, intensifying them; to a not wholly normal or healthy brain, freakish and without consecution, adding a stammering tongue which could not speak evenly, and had to do its share, as the brain did, 'by fits.' Figures of Several Centuries
Steak and ale pie, the local bitter and a leisurely read of the latest issue of The Chap were just the thing to fortify me for a pilgrimage to the Pitt Rivers Museum.
In the course of offering us these products, they fortify these notions of femaleness.
There is widespread chatter that Mr. Chávez may replace key ministers in his cabinet in an attempt to fortify his government amid rumors of his flagging health and also to possibly groom a successor. Challenger for Venezuela Presidency Still Hopes to Face Chávez
I must not be supposed, in saying this, to be leaving out of sight the virile exercise of logical and rational faculties; but that is another side of education; and the grave deficiency which I detect in the old theory was that practically all the powers and devices of education were devoted to what was called fortifying the mind and making it into Cambridge Essays on Education
Similarly, fortifying border patrols to thwart anyone from sneaking in won't do much.
I took one last fortifying breath, then turned the Keystone as though I were winding a clock.
Lord David Lindsay of the Byres compeir for the cruel coming against the King at Bannokburne with his father, and in giving him counsall to have devored his sone, the King's grace, here present: and to that effect gave him ane sword and ane hors to fortify him against his sone: what is your answer heirunto? Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
This rejection of the so-called ordinary appears to fortify these women, giving them a feeling of entitlement to something different and better.
Finally, outside of the dairy product sector, there is a growing use of dairy-based ingredients used to fortify non-dairy foods.
To experience the enervating, exasperating and humbling feeling that comes from trying to plumb the depths of this most amazing subject we call mathematics, is to transcend the limits of human capability and fortify oneself against the buffets of life.
American cinema has, for years, worked its magic to manipulate popular opinion, machinating to fortify racial stereotypes, prejudice, jingoism, and hegemonic control - especially during times of political change.
Busy with fortifying and with taking more gun ranges with a mekometer borrowed from the York and With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service
In the US and Canada, millers fortify grain, which has a knock-on effect on many products in the food chain.
And therefore it is a wise practice to leave these bastions outside, and fortify the entrances of the terraces, and cover their gates with revets, so that one does not go in or out of the gate in a straight line, and there is a ditch with a bridge over it from the revet to the gate. The Art of War
He challenged the business community to fortify their products and iodise domestic salts to add nutritional value.
He is determined by his gestural artistry and resilient thistle-downiness to "sanction and fortify the natural human passion for believing that life can somehow, behind all the miseries and the mysteries, mean something profoundly worth while. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21
In our ever shrinking world where journeys that once took days or weeks now takes hours, where we can communicate with people virtually anywhere in the world via e-mail or facsimile, the idea that we should all fortify ourselves in our racially exclusive laagers is ridiculous. Is That Legal?: Fundraising Through Falsehood at VDare.com
After fortifying himself with schnapps, the Dutchman told his wife about the ghost.
We fortify many of what we call our popularly positioned products to help meet this need, a Nestlé spokesman said. Alarm as corporate giants target developing countries
Remarkably, he inoculated himself with pus from a suppurating bubo to fortify himself against bubonic plague.
In the old days, a dose of spirit was added to fortify the wines for a voyage to England or farther shores.
And without new saplings and their fortifying root-systems, the rivers began to erode their banks, eventually channelizing and "braiding" as they spread out along the newly-unstable valley floors. Crosscut
The serrated edge of his weapon cut deep into the metal, despite its apparent fragility, and split apart the armour plates that were fortifying the structure.
Moisturizers also fill in and fortify gaps between skin cells caused by overzealous washing or hot showers.
Spanish princes, Abderamus was obliged to keep numerous armies incessantly on foot, to support a naval force, frequently to hire stipendiaries from Africa, and to fortify and preserve in a state of defence the ever-endangered fortresses on his frontiers, it is hardly possible to comprehend how his revenues sufficed for the supply of such immense and varied demands. History of the Moors of Spain
In the task of fortifying oneself with supportive personal relationships, compadrazgo offers extensive manipulative opportunities.
And it is quite easy to "fortify" your property if you live in an area with a yard. Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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He encouraged owners to take measures to "fortify" their businesses with security measures, such as alarms. KOMO - News - Top Stories
A synthetic form, called cyanocobalamin, is used to fortify foods and make dietary supplements in the United States.
The baby sitter and the taxi both arrived early, requiring me to rush through the beers I had set aside to fortify me.
If your outdoor sugaring labors have left you with a chill, you may care to fortify, for medicinal purposes, your hot maple tea with a tot of Jamaica rum.
These early chapters fortify the reader for the intense examination of economic policy that follows and comprises the bulk of the book.
She never named Delvile, she begged Mrs Charlton never to mention him; she called to her aid the account she had received from Dr Lyster of his firmness, and endeavoured, by an emulous ambition, to fortify her mind from the weakness of depression and regret. Cecilia
The child had fallen asleep, so the woman placed it on a heap of furs and lent a hand in fortifying the camp. THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS
SHM Works undertaken to fortify the city were intensified from the 18th century onwards, although difficulties were encountered in the transportation of materials and labour in this respect. The Pacific route to the Orient
First, he ate a plate of sandwiches; then he ate a handsomely iced poundcake; then he gobbled a dish of chicken salad, after which he ate a roast pig; after that a quantity of blancmage; then he threw in several glasses of punch to fortify his appetite, and finished his monstrous repast with a roast turkey. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
Fortification, or military architecture, is no other thing than an art, which teaches men to fortify themselves . . . to the end the enemy may not be able to attack . . . without great loss of his men; and that the small number of soldiers which defend the place may be able to hold out for some time. George Washington’s First War
Borage oil is used to fortify infant foodstuffs with essential fatty acid and is available over the counter in chemists and in health food shops, where it is sold as ‘starflower oil.’
Fortifying myself with the thought that the best food is often painstakingly familiar and simple fare, wonderfully prepared, I decided to start with the parfait of chicken livers with redcurrant jelly and oatcakes.
In this mode you make a custom fighter, then you go through a tactical game of taking enemy strongholds to fortify your battlefield position.
It protects hair from styling damage by fortifying cuticles, and detangles and conditions without weighing down the hair.
It was finished to send you yesterday, I know; and I apprize you of it, that you should fortify your heart against the contents of it. Clarissa Harlowe
The ballroom would be filled, Kenneth thought, surveying the empty room while most of the ladies were still abovestairs putting the finishing touches to their toilettes and most of the gentlemen were in the drawing room fortifying themselves for the ordeal ahead with the earl's brandy or port. Unforgiven
When they encamped on the hill they made no attempt to fortify it.
Finally, outside of the dairy product sector, there is a growing use of dairy-based ingredients used to fortify non-dairy foods.
Asahi said it will buy New Zealand's Independent Liquor for $1.27 billion, marking an effort to fortify the company's presence in lucrative Oceanian markets. What's News—
To fortify your defenses, the News talked to a few local experts to get the skinny on how to have a healthy - and slimmer - 2004.
Achieving both can fortify a region militarily and put its economy on par with the world's best.
To admit that we do not know is a costly ascesis, not least because knowledge would give us power for good as well as evil, the power to comfort the grieving, to reassure the afflicted, and to shore up hope and fortify the weak against apathy.
The kingdom shall be protected by fortifying the capital and the towns at the frontiers.
The headman invited a witchdoctor to cleanse his homestead and fortify him against evil forces.
In 1373, the sheriff of Somerset received licence "to fortify and crenellate his manse at Nunney", and his building down in an undefended valley seems to have had more of a picturesque than a strategic purpose. Country diary: Mendip, Somerset
They did not give him thanks for the advantages they had, in fortifying their city, from the waters of the old pool, which were fashioned long ago, as Kishon is called an ancient river, Judg.v. 21. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
This is manifested in the elaborate defensive works of banks and ditches erected to fortify dominating hilltops.
But I'm not made of such stern stuff and to fortify me for the festivities I'm off to my hotel for a few hours' kip.
The authorities were told twenty-five years ago that the New Orleans levees could not withstand a storm of Katrina's magnitude, but a city that votes Democratic wasn't going to get the necessary allocations to refortify them. On Our Own
Pharmacy educators should use this text along with others to fortify the pharmacy student's knowledge of pharmaceutics.
Besides formalizing the legal equality of women, such a ruling could help fortify the resolve of police who must invariably come to the women's aid and repel acts of aggression.
The Old Town occupies a sloping ridge or tail of diluvial matter, protected, in some subsidence of the waters, by the Castle cliffs which fortify it to the west. Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
That has left Mr. King, who is chairman of the homeland security committee, as an important ally for Mr. Bloomberg on issues like getting federal money to fund health care for sick workers who toiled at Ground Zero as well as winning more money to fortify the city against terrorism. King Fuels the Debate Over Terrorism
The Persians had established seven garrison towns on the river to fortify their northern border against Scythian raids. Alexander the Great
Alcohol was sometimes added in order to fortify the wine and make it more tolerant of oxygen, but more sophisticated markets didn't want the overly alcoholic wines.
In this mode you make a custom fighter, then you go through a tactical game of taking enemy strongholds to fortify your battlefield position.
Rigid foam board insulation is tacked onto the exterior sheathing, fortifying the thermal shield.
“The function of the state is to enlighten, to develop, to increase, to fortify, to spiritualize, and to sanctify the soul of a nation.” Matthew Yglesias » The Senate’s Underpants Gnome Problem
(Luke 6: 45) But this, notwithstanding all that can be said, seemeth very strange to the carnal world; for they will not be otherwise persuaded, but that they be good deeds that make good men, and evil ones that make evil men: And so by such dotish apprehensions do what in them lieth to fortify their hearts with the mists of darkness against the clear shining of the word, and conviction of the truth. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
** To refortify the Constitution which has been under assault from these Bushites-getting rid of unconstitutional laws, like the Military Commissions Act, and re-establishing a reasonable agreement about the checks and balances that establish the boundaries of the separation of powers. It's Got to Be Gore: Part I�� The Challenge Facing the Next President
“Let me guess,” Rachel replied, attempting to refortify her position. Deception Point
SHM Works undertaken to fortify the city were intensified from the 18th century onwards, although difficulties were encountered in the transportation of materials and labour in this respect. The Pacific route to the Orient
ZAHN: So, Kamal, if you would, further address these reports that the e-mail trail seem to indicate that these Al Qaeda members might be going back into Pakistan to refortify. CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2002
He was ardent in the defence of Mr. Jefferson's pet scheme of a gun-boat navy, and ridiculed the idea of fortifying The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
The cream cleanser contains vitamin-rich pumpkin extract to fortify sensitive skin and cinnamon to sooth irritation. Pandora Young: A Holiday Feast for the Skin
Israel, deemed it prudent to lose no time in fortifying several cities that lay along the frontier of his kingdom. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
I remember the long, nightmarish evening that we spent in fortifying the building. Homage to Catalonia
Gwen hugged her niece and led her inside for something to fortify her for the days to come.
Mr. Watson, after many efforts to speak, said in a faultering voice, -- Consider we are christians: -- let that bless'd name fortify our souls. Barford Abbey
Other invaluable fortifying foods are algae of all kinds (such as chlorella and spirulina), lecithin, brewers yeast, and fresh bakers yeast. How and When to Be Your Own Doctor
But I'm not made of such stern stuff and to fortify me for the festivities I'm off to my hotel for a few hours' kip.
Later, with Persian approval, Conon helped the Athenians to complete new Long Walls and to refortify Piraeus, thus restoring Athens to independence from Sparta. THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
Fortify the phones with wireless Internet access and, presto - you have yourself a mobile Internet device that lends itself to the growing masses of cellular customers.
Now from this juncture forward, what the police have to do is they have to refortify the investigation that they ` ve already done, and clearly at the top of their list is finding the body. CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2008
¶ Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strongholds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln. Nahum 3.
General Grant was busily engaged in fortifying his new position at Hatcher's Run. Foreign and Colonial Intelligence
And therefore it is a wise practice to leave these bastions outside, and fortify the entrances of the terraces, and cover their gates with revets, so that one does not go in or out of the gate in a straight line, and there is a ditch with a bridge over it from the revet to the gate. The Art of War
The aseismatic fortify that strengthens crucial point branch and lifeline establishment works.
So long as the nation shall not fortify itself, by the arts of affectation, against nature and passion, the repre* dentation of this tragedy and the ** Orphan, '' will still be attended with applause, and the perusal with delight. Titus and Berenice, a tragedy, acted at the Duke's theatre. With a farce called the Cheats of Scapin
In order to beef it up and stabilise it on its voyage, the English shippers began to add brandy as a fortifying element.
If you're eager to have the duomo to yourself, or to stroll through the Villa Mansi with a glass of something fortifying in your hand, persuade a friend to marry in Lucca.
Rather than continuing with the successful, hard-line tactics of his predecessor, the popular Álvaro Uribe, Mr. Santos has allowed the FARC and other illegal groups to fester and refortify, according to the perception of many throughout Colombia. Colombian President Overhauls Military
While Obama was having a really good week, looking like a leader willing to refortify the role of diplomacy in U.S. foreign relations, Senator McCain posed for photos in front of a German restaurant. Andrea King Collier: Blinkered By Blackness
He ordered a pot of coffee to fortify himself and stepped into his shower.
It would have encouraged white/black coalitions that hampered the implementation of the kind of demagogic mob politics Mugabe has used to fortify his political power at the expense of his country's happiness. Latest Articles

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