Sentence examples for bulwark from inspiring English sources

"As a result of 25 years of investment," said Doris Meissner, an author of the report who is a senior fellow at the institute, "the bulwark is fundamentally in place".

Satellite imagery of the Amazon basin, the world's largest tropical forest and a critical bulwark against climate change, shows a stark divergence in the continent's preservation efforts.

Christian Democrats could present themselves as antitotalitarians par excellence: they were a bulwark against godless communism, but also argued that fascism had really been a form of "materialism", making their own spiritualism the obvious antidote to a return of the past.

He said these were "designed as a proactive bulwark against approaches from a still very active international market" in highly paid rail staff.

Today, even ruthless despotism, as the implosion of Iraq, Libya and Syria reveals, is no longer a reliable bulwark against militant disaffection.

It saw devolution as an anti-Tory, anti-SNP bulwark, but that was never going to be enough".

Provincial roads were paved for the first time, mostly paid for by the US, still keen to use the ramshackle regime as a bulwark against communist Cuba next door.

On the contrary, all of the other eurozone countries have dramatically formed a bulwark against Greek demands, in a take-it-or-leave it attitude.

Kiska capitalised on his untainted image and touted himself as a bulwark against a Fico power grab.

We inhabit a post-pastoral terrain, full of modification and compromise, and for this reason my glossaries began to fill up with "unnatural" language: terms from coastal sea defences (pillbox, bulwark, rock-armour), or soft estate, the Highways Agency term for those natural habitats that have developed along the verges of motorways and trunk roads.

Orbán has presented Fidesz as the last bulwark against Jobbik, the anti-Roma and anti-semitic party.