Similar words: hotline, imagine, imaginary, imagination, imaginative, unimaginable, imaginatively, outline. Meaning: n. a fortification built before World War II to protect France's eastern border; initially considered to be impregnable it was easily overrun by the Germans in 1940.
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(1) They are stepping over the invisible, moralistic Maginot Line of the old culture of opposition.
(2) Armies massed on both sides of this conceptual Maginot Line.
(3) German fortifications facing the French Maginot Line.
(4) A direct attack on the Maginot Line in the Saar region has been repulsed with heavy German losses.
(5) Maginot Line, Elaborate defensive Barrier in northeastern France Built in the 1930s. Named after its principal creator, Andre Maginot.
(6) There is no Maginot Line in cyber space ... our national intellectual property in defence and security industries is at risk from a systematic marauding.
(7) The Maginot Line marded the final formation of the passive defense strategy.
(8) Before World War II, the French thought their Maginot Line as an invincible bulwark against German invasion.
(9) Before World War II, the French regarded their Maginot Line as an impregnable bulwark against a German invasion.
(10) From the sea to the Maginot Line the Allies are resisting strongly on a new line behind Paris.
(11) Second, the forts of France's Maginot Line were not tactically outflanked, as myth has it.
(12) The Maginot Line, the massive series of fortifications built by France in the 1930s to defend its borders with Germany and Italy, is perhaps the most maligned collection of fortifications ever built.
(13) Historically, immovable objects are easy to out maneuver and real long-term stubbornness is the Maginot Line of negotiating styles.
(14) From the Fuhrer's headquarters came a special announcement announcing the "complete collapse" of the allied line from the sea to the Maginot Line and the German entry into Paris.
(15) France spent its defense budget on building a mighty line of super-trenches, the Maginot line, with huge fortifications, underground bunkers and tunnels, and heavy but totally stationary artillery.
(16) This book provides a concise and informative treatment of the Maginot Line[Sentencedict], from North-East France to the Mediterranean.
(17) Armand Bernaud had been a prisoner of war since the fall of the Maginot Line, but his brave wife served France ably during the Nazi occupation.
(18) Building the structures required three times as much concrete as was used to create France's Maginot Line, and cost twice as much.
(19) The German penetration of the Allied lines was a damning commentary on the supposed ( invulnerability ) of the Maginot Line.
(20) Her Air force was also large as was her Navy and the Maginot line was supposed to be state of the art.
(21) East of Paris the German thrust beyond the Seine and the Marne, threatening to turn the Maginot line, appears to have made little progress.
(22) Metz is the first city behind the France's World War II Maginot line.
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