(n.) Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.
(n.) A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the other attackers in the car is believed to have been Brahim Abdeslam, a Belgian jihadi who blew himself up on Paris’s Boulevard Voltaire.
(2) And, as was the case with almost every other director in Less Than Meets The Eye, Wilder did knock out a few classics; to my count, four: Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and the just re-released The Apartment .
(3) Once you narrow this,” she said, pointing to the boulevard, “you’ll never get it back.” Kurth believed that council planners were trained in today’s orthodoxy and so felt they must change their city.
(4) You can pick up your Daredevil comic at Secret Headquarters ( thesecretheadquarters.com ), romance a date at Cafe Stella (3932 Sunset Boulevard; 001 323 666 0265), and grab some Humboldt Fog at Cheese Store of Silver Lake ( cheesestoresl.com ).
(5) You emerge on Rajpath, Delhi’s most impressive boulevard, with the mighty arch of India Gate, a 1931 war memorial designed by Edwin Lutyens at its head.
(6) "I started chanting when I was living on Hollywood Boulevard, working as a stripper.
(7) He wants to style himself as patron of the most ambitious urban overhaul since Baron Haussmann dramatically changed the face of Paris in the mid-19th century when he carved out wide boulevards and the Champs Elysée.
(8) Both Daydreaming and Safe from Harm were accompanied by atmospheric videos by the young director Baillie Walsh who then directed the now famous video for Unfinished Sympathy in which Nelson walks along West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, singing the song as if oblivious to the odd cast of street characters she encounters, while the group members fall into step behind her in cameo roles.
(9) Hence his fondness for placing the camera far away from its subjects: Hidden coolly watches as a child's small world falls apart, his cries muffled by the intervening space; and Code Unknown concludes by showing how life, likened by Haneke to a flea circus, indifferently unravels on a Paris boulevard.
(10) We’ll leave you with this live stream of a rally in Miami: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 10.14pm GMT Santa Monica The Guardian’s Rory Carroll (@ rorycarroll 72) has been at an event in Santa Monica, California: After lighting up a Hollywood boulevard earlier in the day, dozens of women are dancing through downtown Santa Monica under glorious sunshine, drawing cheers, applause and curious glances.
(11) On the stage, the tolerant, discursive, boulevard theatre in which he had flourished was disappearing.
(12) Police used teargas to disperse the protesters, who were gathered on the same broad, tree-lined boulevard where two years ago anti-government protests led to the fall of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's longtime dictator.
(13) Some 8,000 policemen were seconded to patrol the boulevards of Athens as a sea of Greeks paid tribute to those killed when the military junta sent a tank crashing through the polytechnic's gates to repress a student revolt.
(14) We weren’t trying to satisfy the demands of that day.” It has hosted Britain’s first multiplex cinema, first peace pagoda and almost certainly its first public infinity pool Rather than create a centre from buildings like other new towns such as Cumbernauld with its hulking concrete shopping precinct, CMK was designed as a centre of broad boulevards edged in expensive Cornish granite and lined with London plane trees.
(15) Friday’s march in Acapulco took place under stormy skies, filling the boulevard that rings the resort’s famous bay.
(16) After another two kilometres down the boulevard is the Something Good roadhouse for a tasty burger and shake to-go.
(17) The once pristine Boulevard Mobutu has lost its lustre.
(18) The movement, which has the support of about 90% of the population according to opinion polls, began when a small group of activists erected tents in Tel Aviv's prosperous Rothschild Boulevard in protest at high rents and house prices.
(19) Every third shop on Fevzi Pasha Boulevard, a wide shopping street that led to the smugglers’ quarter, was happy to oblige.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest City as obstacle course ... a map of Chicago in Watch Dogs All very exciting for any Google Glass cyborgs keen to lord it over the Tron boulevards of the future.
Bulwark
Definition:
(n.) A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.
(n.) That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection.
(n.) The sides of a ship above the upper deck.
(v. t.) To fortify with, or as with, a rampart or wall; to secure by fortification; to protect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gen Pinochet was also under indictment in three cases stemming from the 3,000 people killed and thousands tortured during his regime, when he was feted by Washington as a bulwark against communism.
(2) Among ships charged with rescue duties was a British warship, HMS Bulwark, which was travelling towards the area to help a number of migrant boats during the search and rescue mission, the Ministry of Defence said.
(3) We cannot even rely on incompetence as a bulwark for our freedoms.
(4) His intervention angered campaigners who had hoped that a Large Retailer Accountability Act passed by DC's city council would protect unionised shop-workers and act as a bulwark against the spread of low-cost retailers into US inner cities.
(5) Many in the US military harbor skepticism about the firmness of that bulwark.
(6) Eclipsing human rights concerns, the US sees an interest in a strong Yemeni leader as a bulwark against al-Qaida’s local affiliate, known as Aqap, which has attempted to plant bombs on US-bound aircraft.
(7) It recommends an independent supervisory board for HMRC , consisting of stakeholders appointed by the chancellor, to “act as a bulwark against corporate capture and inertia”.
(8) Lieberman is said to have listened as the president's son expounded on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Iran's growing regional influence and how Saddam Hussein – for all his flaws – was a bulwark against Iranian ambitions.
(9) Trump insisted that he is a believer in free trade and declared: “I am not an isolationist.” But it was hard to escape the testy relationship between the bookish woman now seen as a crucial bulwark of the postwar liberal order and the brash businessman who rose to power on a populist tide.
(10) The defence secretary Robert Gates, one of the bulwarks against liberal intervention, is to retire at the end of June.
(11) But China has also long used – and upheld – North Korea as a bulwark against the kind of regional chaos and US military encroachment that Beijing fears would follow regime collapse.
(12) HMS Bulwark has been saving lives in the Mediterranean since the start of May .
(13) While Iran’s behaviour remains unpredictable, it is argued, the Saudis are a key bulwark.
(14) Why a bulwark of civilization should be founded on paradox, may be clarified by examining the role of self-deception in man's evolutionary heritage.
(15) The last thing the British economy needs is the instability and factionalism that those coalitions of grievance of right and left represents”.” With the polls broadly deadlocked between Labour and the Conservatives , Clegg is increasingly confident that his party will come to be seen – especially for moderate Tory voters – as the best bulwark against a Tory leadership that has shown it is incapable of standing up to its own right wing.
(16) Some western countries have softened their stance that Assad must go as part of a peace settlement, but remain uneasy with Putin’s heroic characterisation of Assad as the last bulwark against terrorism.
(17) Germany is expected to favour a more austere, northern European central banker to act as a bulwark against southern European demands for looser monetary policy and more generous terms for eurozone bailout packages.
(18) HMS Bulwark has been operating in waters just north of Libya, intercepting the dangerously overcrowded boats in which thousands are risking their lives to flee war and poverty in Africa .
(19) In his sheer incompetence and inconstancy, Trump has emerged as our best bulwark against Trump.
(20) I believe that the American alliance has been an absolute bulwark of our military and foreign policy and it should remain that way.