impregnability

Related to impregnability: perilously

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Noun 1. impregnability - having the strength to withstand attack

safety - the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions; "insure the safety of the children"; "the reciprocal of safety is risk"

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She has the strength and impregnability of a diplodocus.

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The absolute serenity of his manner bespoke an impregnability of purpose before which the words died away on her lips.

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The loss of United's impregnability at home, which began under David Moyes, has now made the job of successive Old Trafford managers more difficult.

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The paragon of Soviet impregnability outside of the gulag was a meat-processing plant.

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The Backhanders also preserved their impregnability againstThe Canny Grannies.

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God has turned the seemingly political impregnability of Saraki's dynasty to foolishness.

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Fifth, during the Warring States period, the Long Wall was associated with Qi's perceived impregnability (see the citations at the beginning of this essay).

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(10) In this context, "No Ear, no Door" suggests the air's integrity and primordial innocence that promises the air's non-concern, a spiritual impregnability.

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That is unlikely to reach zero any time soon, owing to the fiscal impregnability of the Ivies and near Ivies.

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When Mr Jones celebrated his 50th birthday last year, my focus was on his impregnability as First Minister, and on how he was in the enviable position for a politician of being able to choose his own moment to depart.

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