Maintaining the heavy fortifications along the Indo-Pakistan border is an enormous drain on scarce resources.
About 24, 000 fortifications were built in the area of the reserve alone, she said.
Colleagues told the inquest at Oxford Coroner's Court that fortifications around it were insufficient.
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The fortifications were after all German fortifications - emblems to the French of their own national humiliation.
The Indian army has denied any provocative actions but said there had been "routine maintenance of fortifications".
Israel had banned most construction materials to prevent them being used by militants to make fortifications and weapons.
During that time Brunelleschi directed a dozen other projects, including churches and fortifications.
Its walls and fortifications are the latest built in Britain, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Once used by rafters and home to wild salmon, the river now runs in culverts constrained by highway fortifications.
The Union troops, despite being in the same encampment for over a week, had not dug in or built fortifications.
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As the Iraqi army swept through the country, it built an elaborate system of fortifications, destroying the fragile desert ecosystem.
For its part, Hizbullah set itself up in the IDF's abandoned fortifications and imposed its full control over south Lebanon.
But the feeling faded as we passed the earthworks of our own fortifications and I saw the faces of my friends.
Approaching from Seoul, only 50 kilometers from the armistice line, a single barbed-wire fence gives way to thicket of guard towers and other fortifications.
Over the years thousands of ingenious East Germans made it through, around, over, and under the Wall and other fortifications dividing the two Germanys.
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In 1862, the Confederate garrison of Fort Pulaski at Tybee Island, Georgia, was taken after a 30-hour siege, ending the era of masonry fortifications.
The city retains many of the old colonial Spanish city walls and fortifications which protected the city (not always successfully) from pirates and buccaneers.
How could the Ethiopians want peace, when every night they heard them improving their fortifications? they asked, squatting in their own conspicuously well-maintained trenches.
The biggest gaps in America's defences lie in neither the federal nor local fortifications, but in the areas where different levels of government fuse together.
But he said there had been "routine maintenance of our fortifications" in the area where the fighting occurred last Sunday, near the village of Charonda.
The Ring is a circle of beech trees, planted on a hilltop that had been the site of Bronze Age and Iron Age fortifications, and a Roman temple.
An archaeologist from Athens is on board the gulets offered by Peter Sommer Travels, guiding passengers ashore and providing expert insights into the ancient fortifications, temples and streets.
Its associated fortifications graphically illustrate the development of English military engineering from the 17th to the 20th century, being adapted to take account of the development of artillery over this period.
Last Sunday, the Syrian foreign minister, Farouq al-Shara, said an agreement on border co-operation had been reached with Iraq, and journalists were shown fortifications that Syria is building along the frontier.
Now that he is in command of the budget, with his currency fortifications in place, Dr Mahathir has gone on the offensive: simply, he plans to spend his way out of trouble.
Colonel Gennady Alyokhin, a Russian military spokesman, said on Sunday that rebel fighters were building fortifications on strategic heights in Grozny's outskirts, planting mines in city streets, and installing machine guns on roofs.
The line isn't properly demarcated and, while the Pakistani government says the new fortifications are on its side of the border, Afghan officials say they are as many as 30 kilometers inside Afghan territory.
The line isn't properly demarcated, and while the Pakistani government says the new fortifications are on its side of the border, Afghan officials claim they are as much as 30 km inside Afghan territory.
An unnamed narrator recalls how he met the mysterious Jacques Austerlitz in Belgium, where they talk about architecture in particular the hubristic grandiosity of public buildings, and the extravagant but useless defensive fortifications once beloved of European rulers.
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