fortress
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Wall Street Journal reporter Lindsay Ellis chronicles his odyssey trying to penetrate the fortress of today’s no-hire job market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
"We're taking the Bastille," one demonstrator shouted in Marseille as masked protesters rammed the door of the mayor's offices with security barriers, in reference to the 1789 storming of a fortress during the French Revolution.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Those who don’t have a job are locked out of the growing economy as if it were a fortress, leaving them puzzled by the headlines of low unemployment and an accelerating GDP.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
"A museum cannot be a fortress," Hollein says.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Suppose you wanted to scale the walls of a fortress which was on the other side of a river.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
French taxes paid for the powerful artillery that breached English-held fortresses and mowed down England’s last expeditionary force, at Castillon, Gascony, in July 1453.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Two medieval fortresses face each other across the Narva River, separating Estonia from Russia on Europe's eastern edge.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
Fish, the 34-year-old councilmember, happens to be a renter in a block-spanning “luxury” apartment complex: “One of those fortresses that everyone makes fun of.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2025
Saturday's main event took place after pre-sunrise rituals, and hundreds of youngsters used the pool in front of one of Gondar's fortresses to get baptised.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2024
All around stood their massive fortresses, packed in so close they almost touched one another.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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