Ribot, Richards, and Will Bernard set up a nasty three-man Maginot Line, playing curt and ugly guitar phrases.

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As to lessons to forget, my colleague Morgen Witzel suggested that a classic military example is the Maginot Line.

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The original Maginot Line failed during World War II because the German Army went around it, through Belgium, and soon ended up in Paris.

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If anything, FINRA has been little more than a Maginot Line.

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To date, U.S. cyber efforts have been focused mainly on defensive measures, seeking to repel network intruders in a fashion that Alexander likens to the famously failed Maginot Line.

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Call it a Maginot Line in reverse: Germany's cozy media club is trying desperately to prevent those Hunnish invaders Rupert Murdoch and John Malone from penetrating its market.

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For example, would our present Maginot line of financial defenses - much of them constructed by legislators bearing names like Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley - protect us if avowed enemies of this country sought to inflict a major, and possibly decisive, blow against us, and didn't care if they lost money in the process?

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