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  • n  an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
    they stormed the ramparts of the city

  • And then he would leap: from roofs or high windows; from a rock onto a distant tree; from a rampart onto a sheer castle wall 15 ft.
  • Across a rampart of rock and ice stretching the length of the 75-km Siachen Glacier, an Indian soldier, Amarjeet Singh, is preparing to take up his battle position against the .
  • Charles de Gaulle once described the French armed forces as "the rampart of order.
News & Articles

  • LAPD asking for help to find missing 13-year-old boy
    The Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division is asking for the public's help to find a missing 13-year-old boy.
    June 12, 2013 - KABC-TV Los Angeles
  • Fire related closures and delays
    Pikes Peak Community College Rampart Range Campus - CLOSED Hope Montessori Monument - CLOSED KinderCare Learning Centers: Middle Creek Parkway - CLOSED KinderCare Learning Centers: Baptist Road - CLOSED Monument Academy Charter School - CLOSED Pikes Peak Library District Monument Library - CLOSED Woodmen Valley Chapel: Vacation Bible School at Woodmen Heights is canceled TH, 6/13 YMCA of the ...
    June 12, 2013 - KRDO Colorado Springs
  • LAPD asking for help to find missing 13-year-old boy
    The Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division is asking for the public's help to find a missing 13-year-old boy.
    June 12, 2013 - KABC-TV Los Angeles
Quotes

  • Silvio Berlusconi in AFP
    Calling the trials "a real farce", Berlusconi said, "I will go on television to explain all that and the Italians will understand that the prime minister is a rampart against the left, which is not in the majority in this country."
  • Boyd Raeburn in BusinessWeek
    This is where Louis Armstrong grew up,said Bruce Boyd Raeburn, the curator at the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University. "Anything that develops those dead zones along Loyola and South Rampart and brings a flow of people and dollars and...
  • Theodor Herzl in Socialist Worker Online
    Herzl wrote that, if a Jewish state were created in Palestine, it would form "a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism."

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