(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.
Mound
Definition:
(n.) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
(n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
(v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(2) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
(3) In reduction mammaplasty by the inferior pedicle technique, the dermal-breast pedicle can be manipulated to form a central breast mound and enhance breast projection.
(4) We’re sacrificing our gold medal to help people in need,” said Thomas Glückselig, lugging a mound of bedding.
(5) A tongue-shaped flap of the fat and the anterior sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle, approximately 7 cm in length, is pulled up, gathered, and inserted to reconstruct the breast mound.
(6) With the exception of poor Jose Valverde, the Tigers pitching recovered in Game Two once that Verlander guy was out of the way, and so at least that side of the game seems to be in a better place for Detroit, especially with the Animal, Anibal Sanchez on the mound tonight.
(7) Next to the pupil there was often a perceptible mound, presumably representing the iris sphincter.
(8) Sperm were not transported into the cloacae of artificially inseminated, anesthetized females without prior administration of norepinephrine to their cloacal mounds.
(9) Treated areas become covered with irregular mounds of RPE cells within seven days.
(10) Conservatively, I’d estimate that 90% of my time was spent making my students do colouring in while I sat in an impossibly tiny chair, with my knees around my ears, silently dreading the inedible mound of uncategorised meat that would invariably pass for that day’s lunch.
(11) The tying run is coming to the plate and a new pitcher is coming to the mound... Jon Smalldon (@jonsmalldon) Brandon Crawford!
(12) Reconstruction of the breast after super-radical mastectomy is difficult because not only a breast mound but also the subclavicular and anterior axillary regions must be reconstructed simultaneously.
(13) Individual cysts were found to be lined by a single layer of epithelial cells in most areas, with focal polyps and mounds of cells principally in collecting duct cysts.
(14) Each mound with its own tableau of what once were laughing, dreaming, busy human beings.
(15) Sox on the Beach (@SoxontheBeach) Also, why are the A's fans behind home plate waving towels when THEIR pitcher is in the mound?
(16) In contrast, the flat-mound and translucent-mound mutants, which aggregate normally, produced very few spores.
(17) Scanning electron microscopy revealed small mound-like lesions protruding from an intact endothelium in birds treated with an initiating dose of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (Me2BA) followed by twice weekly injections of the alpha 1-selective adrenergic agonist methoxamine for 20 weeks.
(18) Breast reconstruction has become such a commonplace procedure over the last ten years that we as plastic surgeons are no longer content to simply create a mound.
(19) Ferguson's selection of the "chosen one" now looks less like John the Baptist heralding Christ and more like what I would do if invited to select my ex's next partner; the mendacious dispatch of a castrated chump to grimly jiggle with futile pumps upon Man United's bone-dry, trophy-bare mound.
(20) The argon laser caused a gradual mounding up of iris pigment epithelium with each successive energy application before final penetration.