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bastion

A bastion projecting part of a rampart or other defensive structures.

bastion

a group that defends a principle a bastion against corruption the last bastion of communism projecting part of a rampart or other fortification a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle

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And so on June 14, 1944, our task force of the 5th Fleet the mightiest armada ever assembled, edged close to the enemy bastion of Saipan.
I always say physical fitness is the first bastion of democracy.
They're bivouacking about a mile south of our west bastion.
Here is the the bastion of learning.
This republic is a bastion for our enemies.
But this isn't our last bastion; we still hold other positions.
Cry Bastion?
Cry Bastion.
Sorry, no Bastion.
You may be the last bastion. of chivalry here, Kenneth, but you lack dash.
Minas-Tirith, chief city of Gondor last bastion of hope for the powers of light and good.
While Aragorn had the enemy on the run he decided to pursue them into Mordor across the Gorgoroth Plateau and to the bastion of Sauron himself, the Dark Tower of Barad-dur.
Now the scene where they follow her to the Fishermen's Bastion.
Smolensk, the last great bastion before Moscow.
Just south of Cheyenne stood Fort Russell, famous throughout the West as a bastion of military strength and the home of the rugged, disciplined, frontier soldier.
When was the bastion sealed off?
I met a man who had been a guard at Madrena Prison, and he saw my father in the bastion.
I thought perhaps the destruction of the bastion.
The bastion?
Why the bastion?
Here in the bastion?
This a paradise compared to the bastion. We're very lucky.
The bastion has been broken into. tunnels were dug.
And no explanation for how they got here. In the middle of the most guarded bastion in all of Germany.
Lucknow became India's bastion of Moslem culture.
Fanatic ethnic or religious or national identifications are difficult to support when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.
The last bastion of pure capitalism left on earth.
It's just so good. it's a bastion against the world.
No, but it's a bastion against the world.
This school used to be a bastion of rich, white elitism.
In the midst of this bastion of technology!
The bastion and the leader of the horse.
Now, for bureaucratic reasons, culture's arch-enemies. have seized this bastion of liberty.
The New Life Church in Colorado Springs is a bastion of American religious conservatism.
It's supposed to be the last bastion for education.
In the steelworks! In the bastion of the communist party! They want a Mass!
Oh, come on, man. This bastion of men being men is being expropriated.
Annie, careful! - The bastion. - Right there.

News and current affairs

The fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers in the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were Saudis crystallized a long-held view of the kingdom as a bastion of authoritarianism and intolerance.
Today's Russian army is not the bastion of reactionary monarchism and anti-Semitism that shaped French officers' behavior in the Dreyfus affair.
In a heartbeat, Cameron (who himself studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford, having previously attended that bastion of classical education, Eton) has signed away Britain's global influence.
In Europe, antipathy to immigrants, or Islam, can quickly switch to hostility toward the European Union, which is seen as yet another bastion of entrenched elites.
But Japan has never been seen as a bastion of free speech, nor did it ever make great claims to be.
Malaysia's Chinese citizens now view Premier Mahathir as a bastion against a new form of violent extremism: the threat posed by Muslim fundamentalism.
Now, from the very bastion of the right, came Benjamin Netanyahu.
Meanwhile, the Senate, the French parliament's upper house, a conservative bastion between the two world wars and ever since, swung to a Socialist majority for the first time in history at the end of 2011.
In the early twentieth century, the imperial and spiritual mission became one, as Russia became the bastion of world communism.
The jihadists appear to want a Taliban-style Iraq that could serve as a bastion for the wider global Islamist insurgency.
Today the only US city that uses proportional representation is the leftist bastion of Cambridge Massachusetts.
This time, even that last bastion has fallen.
Although there is no doubt that the military, as the bastion of the secular establishment, does not like these results, a coup is virtually out of the question.
If home prices crash in the US, the bastion of capitalism, could it destroy confidence and end the boom in other countries?
And given that the Uighur bastion of Xinjiang is close to China's borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, the US was unwise to raise Chinese hackles in this way.
In many countries, people on the right of the political spectrum provide a bastion of support for the central bank.
From the AKP's point of view, the Constitutional Court - and the judiciary in general - had replaced the military as the last bastion of Turkey's secularist establishment.
It is healthy when the West is asked to live up to its own self-image as the bastion of reason and human liberty.
By enhancing nuclear proliferation and the transfer of essential nuclear and related technologies to the Middle East's most radical regime, Kim Jong-Il hopes to shape radical Islamic fundamentalism as a bastion of pro-North Korean feeling.

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