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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, both bastions of Republican support, sent letters to Congress on Tuesday urging action on the debt ceiling.

Much of Iraq's current divisions can be traced to the decision of U.S. occupation authorities immediately following the conquest to abolish the Iraqi army and purge the government bureaucracy -- both bastions of secularism and national identity -- thereby creating a vacuum that was soon filled by sectarian parties and militias.

By contemporary standards both are bastions of moderation.

Both were bastions of the ousted regime, though both still had significant power and popularity across the now divided electorate.

In a year when the party's mayoral candidates have squabbled over the purity of their progressivism, such a strategy could pay dividends for Mr. Weiner in places outside of Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn, both longtime bastions of the left.

The amendments assign greater power to Parliament and the president to choose members of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors, both traditional bastions of secularism that have clashed with Mr. Erdogan's party in the past.

It is a paradoxical place, both the last bastion of old traditions and the vanguard of new ideas.

It undermines citizens' trust in the rule of law," he said, mentioning his own Norway, and Finland, both perceived as bastions of integrity yet both now embroiled in corruption scandals.

It can boast both George Cole and Paul Merton, those bastions of modern culture, as one-time inhabitants.

Thus both regions became bastions of "traditionalism" in the face of partly alien conquerors attempting to impose Islam.

Burkina Faso and Mali were both seen as bastions of stability until recent years.