(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.
Citadel
Definition:
(n.) A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.
Example Sentences:
(1) When you go there, there is a restaurant in the citadel, oh my God, you have to go and eat there!
(2) Except where he didn’t, namely in exactly the sort of southern citadels – Crawley or Southampton – where his critics claim he’s toxic.
(3) But the citadels of impunity are all intact," Grover said.
(4) Too many donkeys, horses and sheep were brought into the citadel along with their owners, contaminating the only water source.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aleppo’s citadel in 2008: the Unesco World Heritage site has since suffered damage that will ‘only be open for proper assessment when the war is over’.
(6) More than half of the listed buildings in the old city – including many souks, its famous citadel, the minaret of the 11th-century Umayyad mosque, along with bath houses, schools, hospitals and entire residential districts – have been reduced to rubble.
(7) "Iraq used to be the citadel of opposition against Iran," he said.
(8) In the trust’s book, Syria: Media Citadels between East and West , Julia Gonnella describes how the sixth-century fortification failed to become a place of long-term refuge and settlement because of a lack of clean water.
(9) Off the standard tourist trail is Purana Qila, Delhi’s oldest Mughal monument, where 100 rupees will buy you half-an-hour’s pedalo ride on a beautiful boating lake in the shadow of the citadel’s walls.
(10) But my grandfather saw it as the citadel, the Ark; it preserved history, which was his mission.
(11) Citadel spokeswoman Kim Keelor-Parker said the school was investigating whether more people took part and would have no further comment until the probe is complete.
(12) The outer gateway was repeatedly struck by shells as the rebels tried to capture the citadel, though again each side accused the other of causing the damage.
(13) This is the central question that underpins Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, a potent critique of the man and the company that, in tandem with Gibney’s previous work, including Taxi to the Dark Side and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief , seeks to penetrate well-defended citadels of belief.
(14) I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
(15) British archaeologists should rebuild Palmyra, says Boris Johnson Read more Photographs of the Unesco world heritage-listed citadel, known as “the bride of the desert”, taken following the recapture of the city by Bashar al-Assad’s troops show the damage made by Isis during its 10-month occupation.
(16) Crystalline and authoritative, he created a geometric cathedral, an icy citadel imposing order on the city below.
(17) Far from draining the swamp, he is opening the sluicegates; the money men are not so much being hurled out as in full occupation of the economic citadel.
(18) Dalley said this was part of a complex system of canals, dams and aqueducts to bring mountain water from streams 50 miles away to the citadel of Nineveh and the hanging garden.
(19) Nationalism triumphed over liberalism, populism triumphed over evidence and expertise; paranoia triumphed over trust.” No one on the remain side fully anticipated an emotional groundswell of contempt for the very idea of political authority as dispensed from a liberal citadel in Westminster.
(20) It used to be that you would look up at these financial citadels and imagine the view from the boardroom,” says Richards, explaining the new policy for every tower to have free public access up high.