Sentence examples for defensive bulwark from inspiring English sources

And it is true that analysts recommend HP shares as a defensive bulwark in plunging markets.

War reflected the wider European rivalries that made Italy a prize for plunder and a defensive bulwark against the Ottoman Turks, that led to the explorations and conquests of the New World and to new contacts with Asia, and that erupted into open divisions over religious belief.

Paraguay nearly struck first in the 10th minute when Geoff Cameron was caught pressing on the edge of the opponents' box as the USA conceded possession, leaving defensive bulwark John Brooks to make a heroic, goal-saving tackle on Miguel Almirón.

Charlton, whose only representative honours were earned on an FA tour to Nigeria and Ghana in the summer of 1958, continued as a defensive bulwark in a declining team until 1964-65, after which he departed – having made more than 400 appearances over his two spells at Brisbane Road – to become secretary-manager of Weymouth, whom he guided to the Southern League championship in his first season.

This stock, often viewed as a defensive bulwark, seems to be working its traditional magic for investors once again.

He established forward outposts to the east and south of these ridges that served not only as a defensive bulwark against potential British incursions across the hills, but also as launch points for raids.

The government subsequently created the fund for risk assessment and mitigation, bringing in experts from Europe and North America to help map hazard zones and plan out defensive bulwarks such as the one that protects Flateyri today.

(The word boulevard, related to "bulwark," originally was a military engineering term for the platform of a defensive wall).

Long ago it wasn't just a road, following the high ground, away from the woods and swamps lower down, but a defensive barrier, a bulwark against marauders from the north, whomever they may have been.

McCoy was drafted third overall in 2009 and despite working with his third coach entering 2015, continues to be a bulwark on the Tampa defensive line.

Finland and Sweden are not members of NATO, and they have long refrained from joining the defensive alliance, which was formed after World War II as a bulwark against the Soviet Union.