Sentence examples for on bastion from inspiring English sources
Civilian buildings had already grown up on the bastions; a windmill and a house for the miller were built on Bastion VII, and these caused the eastern portion to be left standing longer than other parts of the fortifications.
As in the battle with the teaching unions over pay, ministers are taking on another bastion of old public-sector Labourism: the 172 Local Education Authorities (LEAs) in England and Wales, the education arms of local councils.
Its low walls could then be defended all around by artillery, the guns being mounted on bastions and redans.
But that is no excuse for launching attacks on the bastion of proletarian government from the treasonous puppet enclave on our border.
On Garstin Bastion Road, the gritty details of India's sex-slavery crisis is on full display.
The attack on Camp Bastion was the worst airfield incursion since the Tet Offensive.
The 2011 plaques on the Bastion monument have yet to go up.
Leaning over an embrasure on Moon bastion, I could see the entire old town within the promontory ramparts.
The identity law didn't focus on the bastion of family relations or abortion," Constanza Tabbush, a social-science researcher at the University of Buenos Aires, said.
The new science of trace design was based, in its early stages, on the bastion, a projection from the main fortress wall from which defending fire could sweep the face of adjacent bastions and the wall between.
Otherwise the music industry can expect to continue to do business mainly on that bastion of time-wealthy, technology-wise, format-forgiving humanity -- the college campus.
