"If this were just about hardened structures and clearing restrictions, the law would have passed already," Mr. Bennett said.

Mr. Bruyn argued that existing town regulations already effectively prohibited hardened structure on the beach.

Nonetheless, some of them do stab one another during mating, using hardened anatomical structures.

In 2000, the first hardened structures were built here.

As other "bunker busters", it is intended to smash through concrete shelters and other hardened structures before exploding.

Supplying relatively large power requirements in a facility where space is at a significant premium, such as hardened structures.

Obviously when you put in hardened structures in one spot, the spot next door takes a beating.

Mr. Suozzi would preside from a new emergency operations center, a hardened, underground structure the county opened at an undisclosed location last September.

The structure bombed Wednesday was said by Pentagon officials to be a hardened structure that had clearly been converted to military use.

This ground shock can damage or destroy hardened structures.