Under five successive sons of Abdel Aziz bin Saud, the kingdom's founder, who died in 1953, Saudi Arabia has posed as a rigid bulwark of the regional order.
One leader had fallen, but some worried about a military that sought to claim the mantle of the revolution even as it remained a bulwark of the old order.
German government is descending from the ivory tower of quiet, democratic Bonn in the far west and moving far east at precisely the time when the bulwark of German financial order, the Bundesbank, is due to make way for a European central bank.
The masses, encompassing both the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, represented inertia and stagnation, and formed the bulwark of the existing order.
Speaking for the New York court that upheld his conviction, Chancellor James Kent, a conservative jurist who viewed religion as the bulwark of the social order, reasoned that blasphemy must be a crime because it "tends to corrupt the morals of the people, and to destroy good order".
Mr zu Guttenberg has done one big thing: ending conscription, which had been a bulwark of Germany's post-war order.
It affirmed the regime's role as a bulwark of modernity, democratic reform and social order, while it painted Islamists in the opposing colors: antimodern, antidemocratic and essentially terroristic (and they didn't care about King Tut).
The order, a Protestant fraternal organization, has been a bulwark of Protestant — and British — supremacy in the six northern counties of Ireland.
On Wednesday, the Swiss government said that it would block any move by UBS, Switzerland's largest bank and a bulwark of the country's economy, to turn over the names should it be ordered to do so.
Before abundant credit became the order of the day, buyers of corporate bonds were protected by a bulwark of covenants that forbade overleveraging the balance sheet and other sins.
