Gates

KSM enters the complex through a “Sally Port,” a series of gates designed to allow just one vehicle in at a time.
9/11 Mastermind Is Afraid of the Ladies|Tim Mak|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Even Defense Secretary Gates, at least for a time, was open to the notion.
The Detainee Abuse Photos Obama Didn’t Want You To See|Noah Shachtman, Tim Mak|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Eleven years earlier, Gates had set the record for biggest gift of all time by pledging $11 billion to the foundation.
How Does Zuckerberg’s Ebola Pledge Measure Up To Other Bigwig Donations?|Nina Strochlic|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But when a financial model depends on millions of users, and mere algorithms patrolling the gates, lapses are inevitable.
Facebook Apologizes For, but Doesn’t Retract, Discriminatory ‘Real Name’ Policy|Jay Michaelson|October 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST

By the time I travelled to Lebanon in late July to visit my parents, ISIS was at the gates, not of our town but of the country.
Beirut Letter: In Lebanon, Fighting ISIS With Culture and Satire|Kim Ghattas|September 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On the capitulation of Burgoyne, near five thousand men had been detached by Gates to his aid.
The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 (of 5)|John Marshall
The gates of the palace were open, so I descended from my mule and entered, and lo!
George Cruikshank's Omnibus|George Cruikshank
Thus, the country cousin within our gates is more learned in the stock sights of town than townsfolk themselves.
The Brighton Road|Charles G. Harper
So they flew away again; and Kit marched into the city and up to the gates of the King's palace.
The Other Side of the Sun|Evelyn Sharp
The garrison were on the point of closing the gates against him.
John Nicholson|R. E. Cholmeley

British Dictionary definitions for Gates

Gates

/ (ɡeɪts) /

noun

Bill, full name William Henry Gates. born 1955, US computer-software executive and philanthropist; founder (1976) of Microsoft Corporation

Henry Louis. born 1950, US scholar and critic, who pioneered African-American studies in such works as Figures in Black (1987)

Horatio. ?1728–1806, American Revolutionary general: defeated the British at Saratoga (1777)

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