Sentence examples for bastions of power from inspiring English sources

Normally Xinhua would avoid openly confronting the centre's other bastions of power.

Town halls are where you find the council chamber and the nucleus of local democracy but they often seem like impenetrable bastions of power.

Mr. Robbins predicted other documentary directors would be thrilled to have a new television outlet but acknowledged some doubt, adding they are "skeptical of the bastions of power".

Both vowed secrecy, prompting speculation of a truce.This new scandal suggests that, no matter how many conspiracies it survives, AK will remain a target of those who resent its encroachment on their traditional bastions of power.

They even, albeit tentatively, challenged the sacrosanct heart of Iran's Islamist edifice, the ultimate authority of the "supreme leader".So bold an assault on their bastions of power was intolerable to the clerics, not excluding Mr Khatami, who is scrupulous about operating within the system.

Yet the bastions of power — the corporate ziggurats of L.A., cliff-high and elephant gray, which viewers of the first film will recall with awe — remain in place, unbreached, and the hordes at ground level seethe not with a lust for liberation but with a busy trade in high-tech assistance and lowly sexual favors.

As president of the Communist Party, he will preside over an important bastion of power.

The City is a bastion of power, traditionally male power, and they want to keep women out".

With this embrace of the judiciary as its last bastion of power, the right has come home.

For all its well-deserved reputation as an ultraexclusive bastion of power, Augusta National hosts many golfers who are hardly front-page news, even in their hometown newspapers.

What makes it exceptional is the source: the president of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, Moses's last bastion of power.