(1) a Republican stronghold(2) a Labour stronghold(3) In fact, the Foreign Ministry has been a stronghold of fascist continuity.(4) The contemporary music scene was the stronghold of disco and stadium rock, the two bland ends of a narrow spectrum.(5) It has been deployed to fill in for American combat troops required for the attack on the rebel stronghold .(6) Ganesh and Rohit hope to capitalise on their stronghold of creativity and use of actual sounds.(7) Government troops recently violated a ceasefire, attacking a rebel stronghold in the north.(8) If Brocade is to protect its stronghold there, it too needs to offer an end-to-end solution.(9) They were able to build a fortified town and a stronghold they called a vault in case of an assault.(10) The middle and upper end of the market continues to be a stronghold of independent agencies such as Strutt & Parker and its peers.(11) California has the undeserved reputation of being a liberal stronghold , a land of progressive new ideas.(12) No, there'll be no libelling their stronghold as the u2018land of rainu2019, true as it may be.(13) Both countries are Labour strongholds and the party would have expected to dominate under first-past-the-post electoral systems.(14) At the same time opposition forces began building fortified strongholds in hard-to-access mountainous areas.(15) However, the party failed to progress beyond its regional strongholds even after it had reshaped itself into the Canadian Alliance.(16) Successive English strongholds have fallen to outsiders.
