Proctor met a girl he thought would make a good wife, he pursued her "like some fortress to be captured, " his father recalls.
"Making our home a fortress is going to be important for us, especially in the summer, " he told BBC Sport.
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Historically, western homes tended to be more fortress-like with a series of hearth-centric formal spaces like parlors and kitchens, disconnected from the outdoors.
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One example of this would be the Fortress Investment Group which once again has elected to retain its earnings to pursue future investment opportunities.
Former Sandhurst cadet and instructor Rory Clayton said the academy was designed in a university campus style to "give free movement to cadets" and was "not supposed to be a fortress".
Obama is chauffeured to and from the Oval Office in a specially engineered Cadillac limousine that can best be described as a fortress on wheels.
Those factors could be weighing down Blackstone and Fortress and could potentially damage the capital-raising plans of other alternative investment firms.
"I don't get emotional about this issue, " says Kramer, who used to be a managing director at a Fortress Investment Group hedge fund.
We can't withdraw behind the walls of an American fortress in the desert and expect that we'll actually be able to train and advise these people and be able to stand them up.
El Castillo de Buen Amor (the Castle of Good Love) may be about the least martial name ever conceived for a fortress, but in truth this place in the plains north of Salamanca was designed more for pleasure, despite its crenellations, impressively bulky walls and (dry) moat.
Any voter hostility to Mr Ashton may be a local factor in any Tory revival in this Labour fortress.
Weapons can be deposited at Southampton Central or Bitterne police stations as part of Operation Fortress.
Orlando Figes, professor of history at London's Birkbeck College, says Mr Putin's home city of St Petersburg may be a window on Europe, but it can also been seen as a fortress against foreign opponents.
Your first stop should be on the lively harbour where the two town beaches, bracketed between the Templar fortress and the Church of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, provide a view of the hillside town and the boats at sea.
After all, if a prominent British academic portrayed Piccadilly Circus as an urban fortress, designed to keep the people at bay, he would not have to wait several years to be corrected.
Another reason for Hutchison to worry: Chu will soon be expanding its offering of consumer electronics beyond computers - a direct challenge to another Hutchison unit, Fortress, which sells consumer electronics.
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