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It was a mere five years ago, I recall, that conservative commentators were crowing about the supposed "lock" that the Republican Party had on the Electoral College, based on its (the party's) strongholds in the South and Mountain West.
For the first time in Beijing history, the imperial strongholds, from the Forbidden City to the Temple of Heaven, were no longer forbidden to China’s masses.
Cleverest of the three , Nobunaga used another Western weapon, Christianity, against the principal remaining threat to his authority — the strongholds surrounding Kyoto.
After securing Irbil, Barzani's men quickly routed the PUK from its other strongholds.
During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.