Robert Moses, the original power broker, laid down a highway through its heart, city officials built Co-Op City, a vast middle-class bulwark, far off in the northeastern reaches of the Bronx, thereby encouraging flight.
Knowledge of "the classics", cultural capital was held so tightly by the intellectual class as a bulwark to justify their privilege, that it seemed to me, being a prisoner, an outcast among outcasts, daring to read those books and eat from the fruit of the tree of knowledge was an act of silent rebellion.
Any illusion that the Republican establishment, or its donor class, would provide a bulwark against Trump's worst instincts has dissipated.
Royal Oak, named for the English oak tree within which King Charles II hid to escape after his defeat at Battle of Worcester in 1651, was laid down on 1 May 1860 at Chatham Dockyard as a 90-gun Bulwark-class ship of the line.
Instead, an emerging middle class is its most important bulwark.
Today's teachers unions and public sector unions stand in this same tradition of being a bulwark of middle class life in America.
Either public employee unions are the primary bulwark of the middle class, saving the U.S. from another Great Depression and social unrest, or they are disgustingly parasitic and shamelessly bleeding the taxpayers dry with bloated pay and benefit packages, based upon a complete disconnect from reality.
Together, four Al-Ahmar brothers form the most significant bulwark against Saleh.
The protests last year mainly involved members of the new middle classes whom the party regards as a bulwark of its support, and whose nationalist expectations have to be met.
The true bulwark, as Bhutto knew, is the middle class.
Among minority groups such as Christians, Palestinians, Druze and Kurds, as well as the prosperous Sunni urban merchant class, far fewer now view the state as a bulwark against extremism.
