stronghold
堡垒,要塞,阵地,寨子
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- : a well-fortified place; fortress.
- : a place that serves as the center of a group, as of militants or of persons holding a controversial viewpoint: The campus was a stronghold of liberalism.
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They had table after table of phone lines, and computers were really getting a stronghold, and they had reporters from all over the world.
You don’t have to look very hard to see that the high-desert city of Albuquerque is an adventure stronghold.
In the midst of all this inclusion, however, the LGBTQ community – traditionally a stronghold for some of Oscar’s most ardent fans – has this year been largely left empty-handed, once again.
In Montana and Pennsylvania, the party is trying to end statewide judicial elections — a way to prevent liberal strongholds from dominating the vote.
Conservative Democrats locked down the South, the blue-collar wing performed well in the Upper Midwest, and liberals helped hold coastal strongholds.
“People really did think it was a political stronghold,” Sismondo says.
A Shiite stronghold wrapped in a Sunni explosive belt—not exactly a picture of stability.
Two years ago, lawmakers in this staunch pro-labor stronghold passed anti-union right-to-work laws.
On August 21, rockets struck in the east and west of the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, at the time a rebel stronghold.
In Diyarbakır, a PKK stronghold, protestors defied orders to remain indoors.
During the whole day there was an incessant fusillade, the rebelsʼ chief stronghold being the Recoleto Convent.