Sentence examples for bastion around from inspiring English sources

In its month-long assault, the Syrian military has marched into much of eastern Ghouta, the last major insurgent bastion around Damascus.

Instead, they were old-money resort bastions around Lake Tahoe.

In 45 minutes, we had arrived at George's Island, a 28-acre chunk of land that holds Fort Warren, a 19th-century bastion built around a great pentagonal swath of lawn and offering sweeping harbor views from its ramparts.

The defences of Raglan were improved after this, with modern earthwork bastions built around the castle and a powder mill created; a garrison of around 300 men was established at a cost of £40,000.

"I am the last bastion of masculinity around this place".

Elsewhere, Gideon Lewis-Kraus takes us to the Frankfurt Book Fair, "The Last Book Party," where at least social vitality is in evidence amid the industry's glum trends (ah, if only Hunter Thompson were around to stumble around this bastion of back-scratching, tony commerce).

At its peak, the British had 10,000 soldiers at Bastion and the area around it.

Offering up the tech sector as a bastion of good practice around gender discrimination when such issues are ongoing and unresolved is incongruous, particularly given that pink-collar work is still prevalent in the industry.

This is why Neymar is being targeted; he can be a pillar to build a bastion of footballing power around for nearly a decade more under current form and with cohesive team chemistry.

The work required the creation of large embankments and lasted until 1683; the swampland around the bastion was not fully drained until 1687.

He has entertained me over many years and is a bastion of British film-making around the globe".