(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.
Planking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plank
(n.) The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.
(n.) The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore, gene diffusion in energy space is described by the Focker--Plank's equation.
(2) They didn’t want to think of themselves as having a kind of reliance on the state … It became a fundamental plank of the kind of ‘British values’ culture.” Between 1979 and 2013, 1.6m council homes were sold, numbers of new homes plummeted and council housing went from an inbuilt part of the post-war settlement to something pushed to the social margins.
(3) However, the policy is not being replaced and it suggests that Cameron has lost interest in what was once a key plank of his attempt to modernise the Conservative party and is quietly “ getting rid of the green crap ”, as he once called the extra costs attached to heating bills to subsidise energy efficiency.
(4) Tsipras, who made an official visit to Moscow in April to discuss the project, has made improved ties with the fellow Orthodox state a central plank of his two-party coalition’s foreign policy – much to the consternation of the EU.
(5) The Ukip leader said he was making immigration the central plank of his campaign and wants the the chance to grill David Cameron on the issue at the leaders’ television debates later this week.
(6) In the small, echoing gym of a primary school, Rodríguez and García Sánchez took turns at a makeshift podium, outlining the key planks of the party’s platform, detailing agrarian reform to a moratorium on evictions.
(7) We drive to the seafront, where two fishermen are toiling to the rear of the beach, turning cogs that wind a rope attached to their boat to tug it in from the sea over wooden planks.
(8) A central plank of the Conservative campaign for the local elections later this month – that its councils guarantee lower levels of council tax – has been challenged by new figures which show that the Tories are responsible for the highest increases.
(9) In a central plank of plans to cut the deficit, the government is capping the annual bill for tax credits and housing benefit to £119.5bn this year – despite forecasts that millions of people face rocketing rent charges and low wage rises.
(10) The tactic is a key plank of police planning to ensure the Games are not disrupted.
(11) The results provide two planks of support for Woodworth's hypothesis.
(12) That means shaking up the mutual's board, which is made up of 20 members elected from all corners of the co-operative empire and regarded as a key plank of the group's claim to be a democratic organisation.
(13) Zinke also differed from many in his own party by insisting: “I’m absolutely against transfer or sale of public lands.” Many Republicans have long pushed for the federal government to transfer ownership of public lands to the states, and this was included as a plank in the party’s platform.
(14) The houses were built on stilts and connected by thin wooden planks.
(15) You can build your own with a few planks of wood, or cut the bottom off an old bin.
(16) The decision quashed a key plank of UK asylum policy.
(17) In collaboration with other leading economists, he has championed a state-backed investment bank to boost lending to small and medium-sized businesses as a major plank of a growth package.
(18) The notion that sterling is a shared asset has been a key plank in Salmond's case that Scotland has a clear moral and legal case to have a formal currency zone, but it has been challenged by senior economists, who say a currency is only a system of exchange or a liability.
(19) Will Middlebrooks walks the plank, waving at a slider inside to become K-X.
(20) Unlike many crony capitalists who troll the halls of Congress looking for favors, the Kochs have consistently lobbied against special-interest politics.” Touching on a key plank of his attempted appeal to liberal voters , Paul continues: “[The Kochs] have always stood for freedom, equality and opportunity.