Voorbeelden van fortifying

• At this time, however, the government concentrated on fortifying relatively few but central places, especially at the frontiers and the most important ferry stations.

• These included the fortifying of liberal-democratic political and intermediary institutions, the legal system, and, to a minor degree, the bureaucratic apparatus.

• Nonetheless, the fortifying of the hierarchy from municipality to prefecture to national government failed to produce official cooperation across regional borders.

• Reduced to its essentials, "naturalization" refers to ways of fortifying various social, cultural, political, or economic conventions by presenting them as part of the natural order.

• Santaanes solidify bonds between a woman and male kin beyond her immediate household (her male patrilineal kin generally live in another village), while fortifying links among female peers.

• I found those to be cheerful and fortifying words.

• Fortifying bread with this vitamin has only been practised, as a voluntary measure by the manufacturers, in very recent years.

• It is by fortifying their confidence in us that we can play our essential part in that area, as elsewhere.