MANAMA, Bahrain — Saudi Arabia pushed ahead Monday with efforts to forge a single federation with its five Persian Gulf neighbors as the conservative monarchy seeks to build a new bulwark against the waves of change sweeping the Middle East.
The Gulf Cooperation Council, of which the Saudis are the leading power, began discussions on offering membership to Jordan and Morocco — two non-Gulf, non-oil-producing Sunni monarchies — in an effort to build a stronger bulwark against Iran.
Ms. Quinn's endorsement, which followed months in which she repeatedly refused to divulge her position, will certainly help Mr. Bloomberg build a stronger bulwark against his opponents and could sway some council members.
"We will build a 10,000-fold bulwark for protecting the supreme commander and become rifles and bombs to serve as Kim Jong-un's first-line lifeguards and Kim Jong-un's first-line death-defying corps," Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho, chief of the general staff, said in a statement pledging the military's allegiance to Mr. Kim.
It once held a Latin inscription, placed there in the 16th century, proclaiming that the palazzo had been built as a bulwark against "heretical depravity".
The Indianapolis 500, the self-proclaimed Greatest Spectacle on Earth, is built on a bulwark of traditions such as this song.
Now, NYC's leaders are looking to build a whole new local empire that might just act as a bulwark for its other leading ecosystems.
West-Park Presbyterian Churuddya Romanesquenesque Revival bulwark at 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, has negotiated a deal to raze its church house so a developer can build a condo tower there.
Iraq, built up as a bulwark against Iran, has now become an Iranian proxy.
At any rate, Jinnah's ideas for Pakistan amounted, at best, to what his American biographer calls "inspirational generalisations": his secular calls for "equal rights" for all citizens were weighed down by his exhortation to build Pakistan up as "a bulwark of Islam".
