Sentences with phrase «castle moats»

«The 10,000 members who joined the party in the immediate aftermath of election disaster are the type of people who donate money to save mangy bears tethered to stakes in castle moats as a tourist attraction.

The dikes were opened in Holland, a forlorn and wistful defensive move smacking of castle moats and breastworks.

«Most of our cyber defenses are modeled after medieval perimeter security — a firewall is much like a castle moat — and the idea of «keeping the bad guys out»,» says Dr. Bruce M. McMillin, professor of computer science and associate dean of the College of Engineering and Computing at Missouri S&T.

The Last Siege, published in October 2006, tells the tale of a chance encounter on the snowy slopes of a castle moat which throws together three lonely teenagers whose playful dares turn into a frenzy of nightmarish action when a re-enactment of a castle siege becomes very real.

Not exact matches

The castle is surrounded by the moats and ponds that once made up its water supply system.

CNBC's «Secret Lives of the Super Rich» goes inside the 90210 «castle» that's surrounded by a moat and has the biggest mattress we've ever seen.

You better have a strong a moat, and a knight in that castle that knows what he's doing» Warren Buffett

A company that is said to have an «economic moat» has a durable competitive advantage that protects it from competitors for a long time, much like a moat protects a castle from invaders.

«Except for the moat, Mars is housed in a real castle.»

The castle still has a moat!

Of course, a regular target might decide to block requests coming in from OccupyTheURL's domain or IP number, but that would be even better — the press release about how XYZ Corp is so afraid of a little ridicule that they'll hide behind a moat and castle walls pretty much writes itself.

A dirt road winds up from a valley full of neatly plowed farm fields to the castle's dry moat.

During one scene in the animated movie Shrek 2, scheduled for release next month, a valiant knight in full armor crosses a fiery moat, throws open an oak door, and enters the vast antechamber of a castle.

It was so cool to walk up to the castle and look out over the moat and city!

«However, conditions were harsh as Osaka Castle lost its secondary and tertiary enclosures, as well as its inner and outer moats, leaving just the main enclosure for the defeated.

In Cesky Krumlov, the castle's painted tower looks like a psychedelic rocket, and bears patrol the rocky moat.

Geena Howe, 15, can think herself into a painting, and when she enters a huge Monet, she finds herself in a bizarre place where stacks of wheat, moats, and castle towers appear and disappear after the appearance of a ghostly figure.

Becca shaped the castle while Hannah dug the moat.

The number and types of moats that can be built to protect the existing castles and fortifications just got reduced drastically.

Minds work best when they are like castles, when there is a moat, and defenders at the ready to deal with deceivers with arrows and boiling oil.

Think of it like the moat of a medieval castle.

The moat allows the castle to keep invading forces at bay.

Moats were used in the Middle Ages to slow down invading armies as they stormed castles.

If you plan to Get Rich and live off of your dividends, you will want your moat to be as wide as possible around your castle of income.

Alphabet's like some fantastic gilded castle surrounded by an insanely wide & lethal moat... and deep inside the castle you discover they have this incredible unicorn decacorn farm.

HOTEL SCHLOSS GABELHOFEN Hotel Schloss Gabelhofen combines the historical architecture of a stately moated castle with the warmth of a modern hotel whose interior has been designed with a love of detail.

The medieval - themed castle remains a rollicking family destination, with its drawbridge and moat, kids» Fun Dungeon, and that three - course dinner you eat with your fingers at the Tournament of Kings jousting spectacular.

There is not much left of the buildings at Old Sarum, but you can walk around a few of the remains and the original ditch, a moat surrounding the castle, is clearly visible.

Spend a day at leisure in the Châteaux Country with the opportunity to take an optional excursion to visit the Château of Chenonceau, a 16th - century, fairytale castle with a moat, drawbridge, and towers.

Sirmione is bursting with history and charm, including the imposing Rocca Scaligera - a beautifully preserved 13th century castle surrounded by a large water - filled moat that dominates the Old Quarter of town.

Sirmione is a pleasure to discover; the town is bursting with history and charm, including the imposing Rocca Scaligera - a beautifully preserved 13th century castle surrounded by a large water - filled moat that dominates the Old Quarter of town.

There is free time in Sirmione to explore the imposing Rocca Scaligera - a 13th century castle surrounded by a large water - filled moat that dominates the Old Quarter of town and offers beautiful views over Lake Garda from the ramparts.

Built as an authentic Tuscan Castle it boasts: 107 distinctive rooms, Dungeon and torture chamber, courtyard with stables, drawbridge and moat.

I take modern, double - decker local trains and a wonderful vintage steam train, the Lossnitzgrundbahn, to visit moated Moritzburg Castle, on the outskirts of Dresden.

Zelda throws the Ocarina of Time into the moat surrounding Castle Town.

It's an excellent accompaniment to the stage itself, which has you dueling on a raft traveling down a castle's moonlit moat.

Objectives: Visit the market's shops and villagers, talk to Malon in the market, get the egg from Malon near the castle gate, slip past the guards to reach the right side of the moat, wake Talon in the morning with the hatched egg, slip past the guards in the courtyard, get the letter from Princess Zelda and learn Zelda's lullaby from Impa.

Objectives: Exterminate any leftover gold spiders, blow up any conspicuous boulders, go to Death Mountain, go to Hyrule Castle, dive for the Ocarina of Time in the moat, learn the Song of Time, enter the Temple of Time, play the Song of Time at the altar, and enter the Door of Time, and draw the master sword.

Castles, Moats, and Dungeons, oh my!

The Lockup is behind Hyrule Castle, and the easiest way to get there is to paraglide over the moat from its northern side.

Medieval moats didn't just protect castles from invaders approaching over land, but also provided defense underground as well.

The moats saturated the nearby ground with water and made it difficult and dangerous to tunnel under the castle to collapse the defenses.

European noblemen built «garderobes» in their castles — rooms with stone or wooden benches with holes in them, through which the excrement would fall, down chutes and into the moat.

Android was the «moat» around the Google Search «castle» — it would exist to protect Google's online properties in the mobile world.

From now on, think of your marriage as a castle with a moat around it (your boundary) and a drawbridge.

They won't tell you their goals or timeline or whether they'd prefer a ranch, a two - story, or a castle with a moat around it.

Consider the method by which you structure the ownership of assets as your «castle walls and moat» around what you want to protect.

Now we're not suggesting for a moment that # 3 million isn't a huge sum of money, but when you consider that it could buy you a real - life bona fide castle with a moat — a MOAT we hear you moat — a MOAT we hear you MOAT we hear you cry!

It wasn't until 1275 that Sir William de Caverswall gave his name to the property and built the moat and the keep that still lend the castle its arresting facade.

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