• The landing beaches will be as impregnable as any such beaches can be made.

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  • Costa Concordia was supposed to be impregnable, but it capsized off the Italian coast.

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  • The shells for the massive guns of this supposedly impregnable fortress were designed to destroy attacking ships, not massed infantry.

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  • Watches have given up the impregnable position that they were thought to have.

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  • The shells for the guns of this supposedly impregnable fortress were designed to destroy attacking ships, not massed infantry.

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  • For decades, imperial administrations in the Arab world also appeared to be impregnable.

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  • The next year, he failed to capture the impregnable Spanish citadel at St.

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  • Its once impregnable popularity increasingly under pressure on other fronts, a long housing recession is the last thing it needs.

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  • St Gall's lead looked impregnable at seven when Anthony Healy and Kieran McGourty knocked over further quickfire points for the Antrim champions.

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  • They quickly saw how mark-to-market made seemingly impregnable companies vulnerable to destruction.

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  • Before anyone could raise the alarm, Morgan and his men were rampaging through the streets, having taken the seemingly impregnable port with ease.

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  • In the 2003 heist, the vault was thought to be impregnable in part because of the surrounding high security of the Antwerp diamond district.

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  • India enjoyed a perfect start to the day, advancing a solid overnight position of 311-5 to a virtually impregnable one of 422-5 soon after lunch.

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  • In Europe, insiders have permanent jobs with nigh-impregnable security, high wages, guaranteed pensions and a still generous welfare state that they know how to exploit.

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  • To make matters more challenging for Donaire, Rigondeaux's defense is impregnable.

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  • George also tested the impregnable lock, which was tested by Houdini.

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  • They feel executive mayors, voted into office for an impregnable five year term with powers to enforce policies which bypass the traditional council, are a bad idea.

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  • Even once impregnable mainstays like daily newspapers wonder whether the Web will do to them what railroads did to the Erie Canal more than 150 years ago.

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  • Ms Brooks is impregnable in her position, while she has the full backing of Mr Murdoch - who has asked her to steer News International through this crisis.

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  • While offshore cheating won't disappear, to be sure, and UBS will survive, the new message to taxpayers is that an offshore account "is not impregnable, " says Nathan J.

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  • The 2008 financial crisis and subsequent economic downturn, as well as rising food inflation, have led to the fall of several, once-considered impregnable governments in the Middle East.

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  • On the face of it, General Musharraf's power seems impregnable.

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  • Tax revenues are also at a record high, thanks to two reform-minded officials who head the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Bureau of Customs, which have traditionally been impregnable fortresses of graft.

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  • In Britain, DiYists have done much to put issues of animal welfare on the political agenda and probably more than anybody else to call in question the country's once politically impregnable road-building programme.

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  • Siege laid again to the impregnable without.

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  • For the moment, his position seems impregnable.

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  • It's not far-fetched to think that hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel a year and hundreds of lives could be saved by miniature, impregnable nuclear reactors that could be remote-detonated by satellite if they ever fell into enemy hands.

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  • Certainly, given how poorly Mitt Romney has been doing at a time when the state of the economy should have handed him an impregnable lead, it is clear that the Republican party is going through a historic life crisis.

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  • Because that tends to mean using the muscle that comes from owning the desktop, it attracts the unwelcome attentions of competition authorities, who are then spurred on by the possibility that Microsoft's dominance of the personal computer may not be impregnable after all.

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