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• n  defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it
• n  the art or science of strengthening defenses
• n  the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food)

• But at a time when the world is supposed to be more interconnected than ever, isn't there something a little odd about the rush to fortification?.
• Sent to the rear, Colonel Lossberg proceeded to construct a new kind of major fortification, based on zonal defense.
• Soon after their wedding, the cemetery had been divided by a cinder-block barrier, part of a fortification some 100 miles (160 km) in length which would eventually consist of a .

• munition

News & Articles

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• Genetic research clarifies link between hypertension and Vitamin D deficiency
  A large-scale genetic study involving over 155,000 individuals has enabled researchers to discover the causal link between hypertension and vitamin D deficiency. The results provide a strong case for food fortification with vitamin D in order to prevent some kinds of cardiovascular disease, they say.
  June 11, 2013 - Science Daily

Quotes

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• John Adams in National Ledger
  John Adams, the second President of the United States, said, "Representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs of liberty. Without them we have no other fortification against being ridden like horses, fleeced like sheep, worked...
• Manouchehr Mottaki in Xinhua
  The general policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran calls for the establishment and the fortification of sincere and the good relations with Persian Gulf states,Mottaki said.
• John Doyle in The Age
  Chief Justice John Doyle said after rejecting the applicant's submissions "it follows that the attacks on the validity of the fortification removal order fail".