Sentence examples for bulwark was from inspiring English sources

Stimson and McCloy proved right; a German bulwark was vital to block Moscow from further advance to the west.

Announcing HMS Enterprise's deployment in June, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said HMS Bulwark was returning to the UK for "essential maintenance".

The Royal Navy's HMS Bulwark was brought in on Sunday to save more than 1,000 migrants in seven separate operations, including at least 10 pregnant women.

The Royal Navy flagship HMS Bulwark was ordered to Malta to join search-and-rescue operations after the deaths of up to 800 people last weekend in the worst single tragedy in two years in the Mediterranean.

HMS Bulwark was dispatched by Prime Minister David Cameron for use in a pan-European attempt to save migrant lives, amid a public outcry over the record number of migrant drownings in the Mediterranean.

HMS Bulwark was despatched to the Mediterranean on Monday as part of David Cameron's promise to help tackle the migrant crisis, which has cost the lives of nearly 1,800 people this year.

Germany, Europe's bulwark, is looking surprisingly fragile as ructions in Russia depress business sentiment at home.

The loss of that bulwark is critical, and will likely become visible in the near future.

"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".

But as focus shifted to preventing smugglers setting people on the deadly voyages, ships like the HMS Bulwark were replaced with smaller vessels in a surveillance role along the Libyan coast.

And history also tells us that such bulwarks are badly needed.(Photo credit: Wikimedia commons).